Sultery Saturday

I was up early again this morning so that I could water the plants. After finishing the watering I went into the house and cleaned up. Kathleen had gotten up and made some blueberry muffins with whipped cream cheese and bacon.

Then after we finished eating I loaded all the dirty dishes and silverware we could find into the dishwasher and then turned it on. While that was running I went into the living room and read the paper. Just as I was getting ready to go outside and transplant some of the fox glove plants the mail came. So I got it and there was not much there for me, a catalog and a Travel Oregon magazine.

I put them aside to read later and made my way outside, it was about 1000. I first pruned the roses and then I started on the fox glove. I kept digging up fox glove, so that I could reestablish the path through the rose garden. While I was at it I got out my trusty stubbing hoe and chopped out a few of the roots from the Italian prune tree.

I was getting hot and tired so I decided to stop and put the tools in the garage and get cleaned up. It was 1145 when I got inside... I have no idea where the time went; I certainly did not get that much done. I rested up for a while and kept trying to get Kathleen to come outside and show me where she wanted me to plant the plants that we bought yesterday.

I had hoped to get them in the ground before it got too how out...so much for good thoughts. By the time she was ready it was 1330, and it took about an hour to get everything planted and get my tools cleaned up and put away.

Since it was 1430 by the time I got cleaned up again I decided to have some lunch. Kathleen had cut up a cantaloupe, so we had that with vanilla bean ice cream and more blueberry muffins with whipped cream cheese. Not really a dieter’s lunch, but it sure tasted good.

After resting for a while after lunch, I went outside and watered the plants that we just planted and the fox glove that I had transplanted earlier in the morning. Then I washed up and went into the living room so that I could read the Travel Oregon magazine that came today.

Kathleen came down and started dinner; she made spaghetti and used some of the left-over salad. I am tired tonight. I thought about taking a shower a couple times today, but I knew that I had several other hot dirty jobs left to do, so I think I will head there now so that I feel somewhat human again.

So much for a day off... oh wait, everyday is a day off for me. No wonder I never get anything done. Well, off to the shower for me, and good night to you!