Friday Follies

This morning started up just about like any other morning, I had my oatmeal concoction for breakfast, the mail got here before I had a chance to sit down to eat, we got a coupe Christmas cards and the rest was junk mail. After eating, I put the dishes away from the dishwasher that I started last night and then poured myself another cup of coffee and headed into the living room to read the paper.

I was waiting for a decision as to what we were going to do today and decided to go outside about 1130 and dig up some of the fox glove that had grown up around a couple of the roses. While I was doing that, I noticed that the blackberries were more exposed now and I could get at them to dig or cut them down. These were all on the other side of the fence, so I went around the vacant house and into the vacant lot and began working on the blackberries.

Naturally, I was only in my shorts and shirt, so I did manage to get cut up from the thorns pretty good. I did think about wearing gloves, so my hands were pretty much protected. I really started working up a sweat, and after I finished I thought that I would just go inside and get cleaned up, but on the way back to the yard I noticed a columbine growing near the foundation in an area that I was trying to redo, so I dug it out and replanted it.

After that, I noticed a couple young arborvitaes growing where I did not want them. So I dug them out and transplanted them in a row by the existing ones on the east side of the house. Then I thought that I would do some more pruning on the roses.

I had cut a couple roses off and brought them into the house, I am pretty sure that these will be the last ones this year, so I thought that it would be a good time to do some more surgery on the roses. Then I took a garbage can full and put it into the can for the yard debris.

By now, I was rather hot, sweaty and tired, so I decided to go inside and get cleaned up. After a while, I realized that I was also getting pretty hungry. I asked Kathleen if she wanted the left over salmon from last night, unfortunately she did, so I did the next best thing, I made a Limburger cheese and sardine sandwich. It was good, but not as good as the salmon would have been.

After eating, I went on to my computer to see the status of the package that I was having sent to my mother and sister and her family. I saw where it was delivered at 1346 east coast time; the notice said that it was left on the front porch. I called to make sure that it had in fact arrived and that they had brought it inside.

Mom answered the phone and so I had a chance to talk to her for a little while. She sounded good and it was good to get the chance to talk to her.

I just kind of sat around and rested the rest of the afternoon, I had thought that we might have been going to Alyssa's to help her clean up, but we never did. Then about 1645 I asked Kathleen what she had planned for dinner, she was not sure, but she went into the kitchen and thawed some chicken and cut up some vegetables and made some stir fired with some of the left over rice from last night.

Well, it is now a little after 1800 and I do not think I will be doing anything too terribly exciting tonight, so I will just say good night now.