Turbulent Tuesday

After getting about nine hours of sleep last night I got up and since it was not raining, I decided to go for my morning walk. I walked for a little over an hour and felt pretty good when I got done. I did notice, once the sun came up that it was really overcast and windy. I could see the clouds blowing toward the north, but I knew from the news that the rain was dropping down from the north.

I wanted to walk as soon as I got up because the weather reporters kept saying that the rain would start this morning...it did not start until about 1715 but it looked like it could have started at any time all day long.

When I got home I heated up the left over potato pancakes and the left over part of the pork chop and also fried a couple eggs...kind of a country breakfast. The mail came while I was eating so I went and got it and took care of it before I finished eating. Then after putting my dishes into the dishwasher and doing the hand washing I went into the living room and read the paper.

Since the recycling truck had not picked up the recycling yet, I took the mail and paper out to the street and put it into the bin. I also retrieved my neighbor's trash can and put it into her back yard. I had gotten ours just after it was picked up. The wind was blowing hard enough that I did not want to go chasing it down the street.

Since it had not started raining yet, I decided to go out back and turn my compost and cut down some of the plants that had stopped blooming, like the oriental poppies, foxgloves and a couple others with tall stems. Before I cut down the poppies, I harvested the seeds for sowing next spring. I collected about a quarter of a cup of seeds, so hopefully some of them will grow for next year’s crop.

I thought that I would only be out there for a half of an hour or so, but it took me an hour and a half to get done what I did. By this time it was lunch time, so I made myself some ham, cheese and turkey roll-ups using sun dried tomatoes and habanero tortillas that we got from Trader Joe's and then filled them with chicken and the micro waved them to melt the cheese. Not too bad!

I did not get much of anything done this afternoon except tying to find some information on the web. Kathleen has been feeling poorly today, she just came down stairs and said that she was running a fever. I think that she has what I had Sunday and Monday.

Tonight she is making creamed chipped beef on toast, not the most nutritious meal, but one that always seem to taste pretty good. Well, that is pretty much my day, it looks like we are in for a good rain for the next couple of days so tomorrow is probably not going to be too exciting. So for today I am going to just say good night.