Showery Saturday

I slept until about 0700 this morning and felt pretty good when I got up, so after breakfast, I emptied the dishwasher from last night. Then I went into the living room and read the paper. The mail came just before I finished reading the paper, so I went out and got it after I finished the paper.

There was not a lot there, so I recycled the paper and junk mail. I could tell that it was going to be one of those days where I would not be able to get a lot done outside because everything was pretty wet outside. So I decided that I would go out and trim some more off the front hedge even though it was wet, I could still trim it without getting wet myself.

AS I was doing that I turned around to put some of the branches into the folding barrel when there was Aaron. He had driven up and I had not seen him because the neighbor next door was getting her household goods delivered and the moving van blocked my view.

Aaron brought over a Gap 2007 flag shirt for Kathleen and me. I remember one year for Father's Day I received seven shirts, mostly from Aaron, Tami Alyssa and Dan; I still have all of them even though I use to wear a different one to work everyday I just never got then really dirty or put holes in them.

Aaron could not stay too long as he had to go to church to for the bicycle rodeo that Becca and Alexis were participating in. Tami was bringing the girls because Aaron would have to leave for work before it got over, so Aaron came over by himself.

After he left I gathered up the flower pots and hanging baskets from previous years and pulled out the weeds from them and then took them to the back yard to my potting area. Then I went back and worked on the hedge for a little while longer. My arms were getting tired so I decided that I would take the clippings to the back yard and put them in the pile to shred later.

Then I took some steel wool and cleaned up the pruners and oiled them so that they would last longer. Before I put them away, I took my file to the blades and took off some of the rough edges and put a little bit of an edge on the blades. It is amazing how long things will last when one takes care of them.

Just after I had gotten cleaned up it started to rain again, so my timing was pretty good on when to stop and get inside. I was wondering how the bicycle rodeo went and if every one got wet.

I was getting hungry about 1400, so I chopped up some mushrooms, green onions, radishes, and several kinds of lettuce and a tomato and made myself a salad. I had not had one in several days as we were running out of several items, but I found just enough to make a pretty good salad. To top it off, I used a raspberry dressing and added some red wine vinegar; the combination really gave it a good taste. Although the salad was tasty enough that I probably could have gotten by without and type of dressing but I did not.

After it stopped raining I decided to go back outside and pull a few weeds. I filled up a five gallon bucket in just a few minutes, but I was getting really wet because where I was weeding the grass and weeds were really high and wet. Next I went up front and watered the hanging fuchsia plants as they do not get any benefit from the rain as they are hanging on the overhang of the front porch.

After re-coiling the hose again, I decided that I would pull up some more of the ivy that I started doing a couple months ago. The ivy is really well rooted and intertwined, so it was harder work than I needed to be doing, but it needed doing and it was not getting any better by itself.

After going into the house and cleaning up, I decided that I had better work on our new budget some more. I still had a lot of work to do on it and our financial advisors wanted it this week.

After working on it for a while the system locked up and I lost all the work that I had just done. I tried to put it back together again and sent a cope to Kathleen for her input. John call and said that he and Andrea were going to take us to "Sweet Tomatoes" tomorrow evening for Father's Day, so that will be nice.

Kathleen said that she thought that Alyssa and Dan were going to be out of town, Aaron had to work and Toni probably has to work as well. So it will be nice to do something special on Father's Day.

Tonight Kathleen made some salmon for dinner. She made herself some instant rice and I reheated the "Mexican" rice soup base without adding water, so it really tasted good. Kathleen also steamed some asparagus and cut up a cantaloupe and some strawberries for dessert.

She only finished about half of her salmon and asparagus, so she asked if I wanted it.
I said not tonight, but some other time, so she put it into a plastic storage container and I will have it some day for lunch next week.

Well, that is about it for tonight, I am hoping that I feel well enough to make it to church tomorrow. I have been coughing quite a lot in the mornings so I hope that I do not do that tomorrow. I think that I will wait until tomorrow morning to take my shower; maybe the heat will help clear up the drainage.

Well, I guess that all is left is to say good night!