Sultry Sunday

Another early get up, I wanted to water the plants that I had just planted yesterday. So once I gave them a quick drink, I went into the house, cleaned up and had breakfast, did a load of towels and then got ready for church. We were not having S.S. today as many families were at the annual church camp out.

After church this morning there was a fellowship time, not as many people stayed for this as where in church, but I guess many people looked at this as a time to have more free time. I thought that it was a good time to see people that we do not often get a chance to talk to.

We stayed for about forty-five minutes and then headed home. After getting home I changed my clothes and then separated the laundry and took it downstairs. I took the towels out of the washer and put them into the dryer and the dark clothes into the washer.

While they were running, I went into the living room to read the comics and the ads. About the time I finished the comics and ads, the dryer went off, so I took the towels out and put the dark clothes into the dryer. Then I loaded the light clothes into the washer and went and folded and put away the towels.

I then went back and finished reading the paper, and before I knew it the dark clothes were dry, so I unloaded them and took them upstairs to fold and put away. By the time I got back downstairs the light clothes were done washing so I loaded them into the dryer. While they were drying I made reheated the spaghetti from last night and had lunch.

After finishing lunch, I loaded the dishes into the dishwasher and then took the light clothes out of the dryer, took them upstairs, folded and put them away. By this time I was really ready to go outside and get my hands dirty.

I pulled some weeds in the rose garden, trimmed the dead rose blooms and other pruning to the rose bushes. I got about twelve gallons of rose bush clippings when I finally finished. By this time I was pretty sweaty and my hands were pretty bloody.

I have a pair of welding gloves that are especially good for working around the roses as they are made of goat hide and rather impermeable to the rose thorns, but do I ever wear them...NO! I usually wear them in the fall or early spring, but I am usually too hot to wear them most of the time, I guess I will have to put away comfort and do the practical thing once in a while.

After cleaning up, I went into the living room and sat in my chair and promptly fell asleep. I woke up just before Kathleen called me for dinner, she made a Greek salad, it was pretty good, although it had more pita bread and less green in it than I would have liked. She was following a recipe and she said next time she will use some lettuce and other things and less pita.

For dessert she made a raspberry cake with freshly picked raspberries, yum, yum! Well, I guess this is all for today, it sure was muggy out. It was not nearly as hot as it had been earlier in the week; in fact it just made it to the low eighties... the coolest day of the week.

They are even saying it might rain later on in the week, I will believe that when I see it. Time to say good night.