Friday's Finishes

I had another good walk this morning; again I took a slightly different route around the high school and covered a different parking lot. It was another three bag walk, although most of what I gathered was from the area that I had not walked before, so I am hoping that now that it has all been pretty much policed it should be a little easier to keep up. I guess that I will just have to wait and see.

I am not sure what to expect tomorrow as I do not know if there are any games tonight, I will just have to find out tomorrow. Today's walk took almost an hour and a half, so I need to try to cut back a little and either walk less or pick up less trash. I would like to keep my walk to right around an hour at the most.

After eating I made myself another cup of coffee and went into the living room and read the paper, the mail had not yet arrived, so I went outside and worked at pulling the ivy out on my neighbor's side of the fence. I did the area in front of the garage when the mail man came so I finished that area, then took my recycling can into the back yard and went into the house and got the mail.

There really was not much there, so I went back out back and pulled the ivy out of the back corner of the garage where the fence takes a slight jog. I also dug up the cement pieces that Toni and Chucky had put down when they lived with us and had a garden in that area.

I have not kept that area up because I had not removed the cement and the weeds had pretty much taken over. Once I had the ivy, the weeds and the cement out, I got out my power mower
and mowed it. I hat to say it but I do not think that I have mowed that area in several years.

I am thinking that now that I have it pretty much cleaned up, I might rototill it and maybe even plant a garden there next year. We tried the container garden this year and it is just not big enough, maybe for just herbs and spices, but I am thinking about more than four tomato plants and a couple squash. We will have to see how I feel next spring, either way, I am going to try to get it rototilled.

By the time I finished all that I was really tired and I could feel my back telling me that I over did. So I put everything away, went into the house, cleaned up and made myself a brot. Kathleen was making a couple grill cheese sandwiches so she made me one as well. I took three Tylenol for my back and then went into the living room and sat down for a while.

That while turned out to be until almost 1900 when Kathleen called me for dinner, I dozed for a while and when I did wake up my back felt better. Kathleen made a tuna steak and we split it, she also made some squash and some baby red potatoes.

I noticed that my back is still a little stiff, but that is pretty normal for me anymore. Whenever I sit for more than fifteen or twenty minutes I am slow getting up and moving around. Tomorrow we are having someone come over to start making some new custom cabinets for us.

We are planning on starting with the downstairs bathroom and when that is done I think we are doing the kitchen and then the upstairs bathroom. We may even have a custom hutch built into our dining room. That is something that Kathleen has wanted for a long time.

Well, I think that is just about all the news that is fit to write about and all I can think about for tonight, so I will just sigh off and say good night!