Monday's Morphing

Today was a day that seemed more like it belonged at some other season than the middle of summer. It was overcast all day; I do not think I saw the sun shine all day. Well, after going to bed early last night, I woke up and was still tired and sore and I am not sure why I was sore or tired.

When I got downstairs I watered the plants in the front of the house and then brought the paper into the house. Since this was Monday, I had cereal for breakfast, good old shredded wheat with a ripe banana, a ripe peach and some raisins. That was the last banana, so next time we go grocery shopping we will need to pick some more up.

After eating I emptied the dishwasher and then proceeded to add dishes from last night and breakfast. I still did not feel too good, but I wanted to try going for a walk to see if that might help. So I got my walking shoes on and took off, I did not go as for as I had last week, just three miles and only for about a half hour.

I could have gone longer, but I did not want to press my luck. When I got home I saw the mailman across the way, so after changing out of my shoes I went out and got the mail. Then I poured myself a cup of coffee and sat down and read the mail and the paper. Nothing stands out as important in the mail so it went into the recycling. Then I gathered up the recycling: cans, plastic, cardboard and paper and took it out to the front porch to take to the road tomorrow morning.

Then I decided that the house was not going to paint itself and if I wanted it painted I had probably better start doing it. Today looked to be a good painting day as it was suppose to be overcast all day...and it was! So I got out my thirty-two foot extension ladder got out the paint, a paint pail and looked for a paint brush. I finally found a paint brush, but by this time it was almost noon.

Anyway, as I was getting something out of the garage the lady next door came by and asked if I would cut down a couple branches off the tree in her front yard the was over hanging her front porch. So I stopped what I was doing and spent about an hour cutting down the branches and then cutting them up so that they would fit in the recycling can.

I finally got back home and poured the paint out of the five gallon bucket and into my little gallon paint bucket. Then I changed into my painting clothes and boots and made my way up the ladder. I only painted about a four foot strip of siding and then decided that I was really too tired to stand on the ladder any longer.

So I came down and took my ladder down and laid it along the fence so that it will be handy tomorrow when I hope to give it another try. I still had some paint in my bucket so rather than pour it back into the big bucket; I decided to paint some of the shingles on the back of the house. So I got out my scrapper and scrapped the shingles and then painted the area that I had painted.

I scrapped a little more than I had paint for, so that will give me some area to us my left-over paint tomorrow. When I finally ran out of paint, I washed out my brush and put the paint bucket away and then washed up and changed my clothes.

By the time I got all cleaned up and changed it was 1515, so I made myself a salad for lunch. I felt like taking a nap, but Kathleen had some things that needed to be thrown away and recycled, so I did that and then Kathleen said that Andrea and Brandon were coming over, so I did not want to take a nap with them coming over.

They got here about 1730 and stayed through dinner time, in fact they are still here. So I think that I will cut this off, say good night and go visit with them for a little while longer.