Wednesday's Whittling

I awoke a little earlier than normal, around 0600 this morning and did not get up until around 0630. So after eating breakfast and reading the paper I changed clothes and took off for the dentist office. Yes it was that time of the year for me to have my semi-annual teeth cleaning and check-up.

The dental hygienist cleaned my teeth and then the dentist checked my teeth out and they both gave me a clean bill of health. Dr Naughton said that I should be able to keep my teeth and not have any problems with them for the rest of my life.

When everyone was done with me I asked if I could go on an annual check-up and cleaning schedule to save a little extra money. Since no one could remember the last time I had a cavity they said that would be okay and so I scheduled my next appointment for June 2008.

Kathleen and I had discussed this a little before I left for my appointment, so it was not a spur of the moment thing when I asked about it. In fact I had contemplated the idea several times in the past, but just kind of decided not to follow through with it. So that should save about $120.00 a year, not a huge amount, but sometimes every little bit helps.

When I asked about it they said that it would be okay for me, but that they would not recommend it for Kathleen as her teeth are no where nearly as strong as mine. So for now at least Kathleen will try to make it every six months, I say try because it had been about two years since she last went in for a cleaning.

Anyway, Kathleen's appointment was right after mine so when I got home she had already left for her appointment. While the house was somewhat quiet I decided that I would work on our proposed new budget, so I did some modifications to the data base that I had created the other day.

So many of our expenses are fixed or at least somewhat out of our control, so it makes it a little challenging to try to modify it very much. I made sub categories for such things as insurance, and our Comcast bill, and divided the bills that only come every two or three months by the number of months that they covered to come up with an approximate monthly amount.

I could only work on it so long and then I decided that I needed to go outside and work in the ground for a while. So I pulled a bunch of weeds in one of the hill gardens that I really have neglected for a couple years and also in the old dog run that I need to de-weed and then plant something there.

I had kind of had the idea in the back of my head that I would get around to mowing the back yard seeing that I did not get to it yesterday, but before I did that I wanted to edge around the garden areas.

Long story short, by the time I finished doing the edging I was too tired again to mow, so I gathered up my tools, cleaned the off and put them away in the garage and headed inside to clean up myself.

I looked at the clock and it was 1545, no wonder I was tired, and besides that I missed lunch...it is a good thing that I am not in a union, I would be in big trouble! Seeing that it was so late, I decided that I would make myself a blueberry smoothie to tide me over until dinner.

For dinner I had re-heated "Mexican" soup from the other night, I finally finished it, and added the leftover flounder to it. Kathleen just about got sick just looking at it, but it really tasted pretty good. Kathleen heated up a can of lentil soup for herself.

There was just a little left so I asked if I could finish it off, she took another couple scoops and gave me the rest. I sliced off some Walla Walla onion and added it to the lentils and reheated it, yum yum!

Well other than the fact that I have been grazing on berries, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, during the day for a couple days that is about all I got done today. I really enjoy this time of year, although the berries are not out in full force the early ones always seem so tasty.

So I guess that is about it from this part of the world...good night!