Trego's Mountain Ear

I’m wearing suspenders. Most of the loggers I’ve known slur the word so it comes out ‘spenders.’ I got ’em because of this last hernia surgery – doctor’s orders were to wear something loose around the middle, so I got out my old fat pants and bought a pair of suspenders.

I have 5 more weeks with a 15 pound lifting limit and the caution to wear “loose fitting clothes.” The 15 pound limit translates to “make a lot more trips carrying firewood to the house.” The suspenders, though, mean that even though the pants are so loose I expect them to fall down, they don’t.

I’m not sure I shouldn’t have tried suspenders a whole lot earlier. Also not sure I’ll stick with them after my six weeks lifting limit is over – but with the incisions healing on my stomach, right now the suspenders are pretty wonderful. Now, if I can just remember not to lift anything over 15 pounds.