Catching up at last

Now that my wife has retired I finally find that I have time to finally catch up on things around the house that I have been neglecting for the past three years. I finally had a chance to replace some tile in the kitchen that I have been meaning to replace for at least three years. I still have several tiles to replace but the job is finally getting done. I also have been able to get out into the yard and try to get things straightened out there. I have been able to put in some rasberry plants, blueberry plants, some grape plants. I am finally getting the property lines clearly marked and want to put up a fence around the property. The only problem I have is that I am a little accident prone and do stupid things. I managed to stab my left hand with a knife and sever the flexor tendon on the index finger of the left hand. Now I have no flexion of that finger. I thought this would be a big hassle but I am finding I can do most things that I could before I can still do. The biggest problem that I have found is that since I was trained in typing by the touch method is that my typing speed has suffered. I am trying to learn how to type without the index finger of the left hand. As all you typists out there you know that is an important finger used in typing. I will get along however. I never realized how much you would miss just one finger. But then again I nver realized how easy it is to do without the use of one finger. But one word of caution if you are reading this is be careful and don't do as I did. I was trying to seperate frozen hamburgers with a sharp knife when this happened. I knew better but being who I am I thought I could do this without any problems. Guess what, It didn't work out quite the way I had intended. That's life. I thank God that it wasn't worse. It very easily could have been.