Muddy Monday

This morning I got up about 0645, I had been awake for a while and had tried to go back to sleep, but I had just enough sleep to take the edge off and it was blowing and raining hard enough that I could not get back to sleep.

Once I got downstairs, I made myself some blueberry waffles and a couple veggie sausages. I found some real maple syrup in the pantry the other day so I used that. There really is a lot of difference between real maple syrup and the pretend stuff.

After putting the dishes and things in the dishwasher, I made myself some coffee, then went into the living room, and started reading the paper. I finished the paper and then made myself some green tea. I have been drinking a lot of green tea lately; we seem to have a lot of it laying around for some reason.

The mail came a little later today, and for the first time in about a month, we did not have any political advertisements. There really was not much in the mail that I even kept, just my medical insurance statement on benefits that they paid out last week.

I went outside for a while when the rain let up for a few minutes and picked up a couple branches that came out of the fir trees. They had been dead for a while, as they did not have any needles on them. The biggest one was a couple inches in diameter and was pretty rotten.

I also went into the back yard and the ground was pretty soggy, I think I heard on the news that we had an inch and a half of rain and they were predicting another couple of inches by tomorrow morning.

Later this morning I finished up my ballot, children did you see that, remember it has to be dropped of tomorrow. When Kathleen came down stairs and after she ate something, I prodded her into filling out her ballot as well. We discussed a couple of the issues and I was able to explain them to her.

Kathleen had been trying to get a hold of her nurse practitioner or a while today and when she finally called back, Kathleen had her phone in a couple prescriptions for her. So about 1630 we took off to Drop off the ballots and then to Fred Meyer's to pick up the prescriptions.

On the way, we both realized that we were getting really hungry so while we were at Fred Meyer's we picked up a couple of things at the deli. Kathleen got a fried chicken dinner and I got a rolled sandwich and some potato salad.

Well, I think that tonight will be relatively quiet, other than the rain and wind, so I will just say my good night now.