A Milder Mid-week

When I got up this morning guess what... it was raining! Not that that was surprising, but it had been raining off and on all night and I had though that it might not be raining when I woke up. I had stopped for quite a while during the night, so I was a little surprised when I heard the rain when I finally got up.

This was a blueberry waffle and sausage morning again, it just sounded better than cereal. After I finished eating, I loaded up the dishwasher and started it up. I also did some of the hand washing, but there was not really too much of it to do.

After finishing in the kitchen, I went into the living room to read the paper and drink my coffee. I just finished one section when I heard the mail come; there was not much of anything important there. I think the only important thing that came was the credit union statement.

Kathleen came down stairs and was dressed, I think that is the first time she has been dressed when she came downstairs in a long time. I gathered up the towels, loaded them into the washing machine, and started them up.

It was getting to be about lunchtime so I made myself a burger with a couple onion slices and tomato slices on some homemade bread with melted cheese. I thought about have something more, but I was really satisfied with what I had.

It had stopped raining for a while so I went outside and raked up all four areas of the back yard. I probably could have saved my time as the leaves off the cherry trees were falling as fast as I could rake them up. The main reason I did it was that I did not want the wet leaves on the lawn. Grass has a hard enough time growing there due to all the shade in the summer time, and with the wet leaves, it is really hard on the grass.

Kathleen left for her physical therapy appointment and I stayed home to get some work done. I cleaned and polished the stovetop, it is a flat glass top and it needs to be polished on a regular basis. The clothes also were ready for the dryer so I took them out of the washer and loaded up the dryer.

The handy man that is doing the work on the house next door started to cut down the Italian prune tree that is on the property line, so I helped him with some of the branches that were on my side of the line. I have been after them to take it down ever since they started to work on the house. I just wish that they had started before the leaves all fell.

By the time, I got back into the house the dryer had gone off, so I emptied it, folded, and put away the towels. I had not vacuumed in a couple of days, so I did that as well, only the downstairs. The upstairs does not get quiet as much Reggie hair or fir needles as the downstairs, so it does not need cleaning as often.

Kathleen came home about 1730 and had stopped at Safeway and picked up some coffee for her, some limburger cheese and some yogurt. I went out to get the groceries from her car and then put them away. Kathleen made some fried rice with the left over chicken from last night and what she had Monday night; she also cut up some carrots and celery.

We are trying to keep the refrigerator cleaned out of left overs as much as possible, so that when we go grocery shopping we have a place to put them. Well, Kathleen has gone upstairs and is probably on her computer, I do not think that there will be anything else noteworthy going on tonight so I will say good night now.