Satisfying Saturday

Another good walk this morning, just a little over an hour. That was not all walking because this morning I decided that I would take a plastic bag with me and pick up trash as I walked around the high school fields. I had to empty it three times, not all of them were completely full, but I think that I picked up all the trash that I saw.

Mostly paper cups, plastic cups, straws, gum wrappers, several other various pieces of plastic and several bottles. It took a little longer to pick up the trash, but I have felt bad about not doing it all week. Yesterday I picked up as much as I could hold and then dump it into the nearest garbage can. Then I would do it all over again, that I why I thought about taking the bag to put the garbage in.

When I got home I started making myself breakfast. I was sautéing my onions and portabella mushroom when Kathleen came down and asked if I would like some hash brown potatoes. I said sure, so she grated the potatoes. She also asked if wanted her egg whites, again I said sure, so she poured the egg whites on top of my onions and mushrooms and then I added some egg beaters and made a nice omelet.

When the potatoes were done, I added some hot salsa to them and then put the omelet on the plate and added some green chili sauce on top of it. It was a nice breakfast. After breakfast Kathleen made some coffee and I put the breakfast dishes into the dishwasher. Then I went into the living room and read the paper.

Today the mail got here at the normal time; I think that our regular mailman must be on vacation. So I opened the mail after I finished the paper, there was not much there, so all of it went into the recycling bag.

After doing that I went outside and pruned the roses and dug up some more tree suckers. Then I got out the bird feeder that Kathleen bought a few years ago and just found and hung it up by the kitchen window.

While I was out in the front yard, I noticed that some of the grass was getting pretty long, so I got out my rake and raked up the walnut shells and then got the push reel mower and mowed the front lawn. I used the Brill electric reel but with out the battery, it only weighs a few pounds and is really easy to push. Since most of the lawn did not need mowing I thought that I would just push it and get a little more exercising in.

After putting the mower away, I set up the sprinkler and turned it on. When I finally got done I went inside and made myself a salad for lunch. After eating I loaded up the dishwasher and turned it on. Then I went outside and set up my chipping/pitching net and got my pitching wedge and my bag of practice balls and started chipping away. I did that for about a half hour, I stepped wrong and hurt my back a little while I was working on the front lawn.

Kathleen needed to go to the fabric store so she took off while I was still outside; shortly after she left I picked up the golf balls and put everything away. Then I watered the rose garden and the berry patch and when I finished that I turned off the sprinkler and put everything away.

When Kathleen came home she heated up the left overs from last night. That pretty much brings me up to now, so I think that I will just say good night and take a shower in a little bit.