Monday's Movements

I was up early this morning, mainly because I wanted to water the roses and the berries before it got too hot. I got outside about 0620 and finished up about 0700, I probably did not water as much as I should have but the ground around the plants that I watered got a good drink.

Before coming in I picked about a half pint of blueberries and raspberries. Then once inside and cleaned up I made some breakfast out of a half of a bowl of corn, rice and wheat Chex and the other half of the bowl I put a mixture of raspberries and blueberries.

After I finished eating I put all the dishes and silverware that I could find into the dishwasher and turned it on. While they were washing I went into the living room and read the paper, the mail came just as I was finishing up the paper the mail came, so I went out and got it.

I had a couple magazines and Kathleen had a few things, but most of it went into the recycling bag. It really bothers me that there is so much junk mail in the mail everyday, it is bad enough that the envelopes from stuff that we do want gets recycled, although I usually use them for writing notes or shopping lists on before I recycle them, but even then most of them just get put into the recycling bag.

Kathleen said that she wanted to go a few places but wanted to take a shower first, so I went outside to pull some weeds and prune the roses. I thought that enough time had gone by that Kathleen should have had her shower and be ready to go so I went into the house and there was Kathleen sitting in the living room going through a couple bags of ??????.

I had thought about mowing the lawn earlier, but I did not because it is harder to stop mowing than just pruning or pulling weeds. The more I thought about it I thought that mowing might not be the best idea because the weather for the next two or three days is suppose to be over 100 degrees, and the grass needs the extra height to provide shade for itself.

I will probably try to water the front lawn either tomorrow or Wednesday morning, to keep it a little green. It takes a couple hours to get about and inch of water, the recommended amount, on the front lawn. As much as I hate to water the lawn, the green grass makes it a little cooler around the house.

The back yard is already starting to turn brown, it is really dry. The only part of the back yard where the grass is green is under the cherry trees and mountain ash and the other spot is north of the apple tree.

Anyway we finally got off and stopped by Montivilla Sewing Center for Kathleen to pick up her monthly disk and whatever else she gets every month. Then it was on to the credit union to deposit a couple insurance refund checks, while I was doing that Kathleen went next door to the AT&T cellular office to buy more time on her phone.

I finished before she did so I went there to see what she was up to. She was looking at the new I-phones so I asked her if she had taken care of her phone yet and she said that she was on the list. It took another fifteen minutes before they called her, neither one of us could believe how many people were in the store.

In January we decided not to renew or phone plan but rather use the prepaid plan instead. We each bought $100 dollars worth of time, Kathleen had gotten down to about $30 dollars worth so we bought her another $100 dollars worth. I got $100 in January as well but I still have most of mine.

The way we are going we will only spend $300 dollars this year on our cell phones where in the past we were spending between $900 and $1000 dollars a year. Neither one of us does a lot of texting or messaging, so this works really well for us and saves us a boat load of money.

Anyway, after taking care of the phone we stopped by the doctor’s office so that Kathleen could pick up a prescription for some medications that she can send away for. So instead of paying $30 for a month we will still pay $30 but it will be for three months supply.

After picking up the prescription we went to the library so that Kathleen could drop of some books and pick up some she had on order. I do not use the library as much in the summer time as I spend more time outside, whereas in the winter it is wet enough that I do not spend that much time outside.

We finally got home about 1400, so I heated up the last couple pieces of pizza and made a sandwich out of a half of a Kaiser roll and some salmon salad. Then I went into the living room and sat down in my chair and promptly dozed off. I woke up about 1600 and was still kind of groggy, but after about a half hour I seemed to wake up.

So I turned on the local news for a half hour and then Fox news. Kathleen made some stir fry for dinner tonight, she used up most of the vegetables from the refrigerator and some steak that we had in the freezer. After dinner I emptied the dishwasher and then loaded it up again with the dishes from today's lunch and dinner. So here we are, and I think that I have used up today allotted space so I will just say good night.