Weathering Wednesday

Well, we made it to the middle of the week already. I got up earlier than I would have liked to this morning, but I knew that I would not be getting anymore sleep if I stayed in bed. Upon arriving in the kitchen the first thing I noticed was a trail of ants over the counter, over the stove and up and into the left over chili from last night.

Kathleen and I must have both been tired enough that we forgot to put the leftovers into a container and into the refrigerator. So I gathered up the pot and put it into the sink and turned the hot water on, then I got the sponge wet and proceeded to capture ants. The sink was literately black from all the ants that I had gathered up.

I kept this up for a good fifteen minutes, so you can imagine how many ants there were. Even later in the morning I was still killing ten or twenty at a time trying to find the path that their fellow ants had taken to get to that good chili and rice.

So after that entire ant killing ordeal I decided that I would make myself some breakfast. It was cereal day so I mixed some shredded wheat, Go-Lean-Crunch and puffed rice into a bowl and added a half a banana and several fresh raspberries.

I used the rest of my soy milk and still did not have quite enough to moisten the cereal, so I added a little water to the soy container and was surprised to see that it was pretty white looking and it did not taste too bad either.

After finishing breakfast, I loaded up the dishwasher and turned it on, and then I went into the living room to read the paper. I thought that I heard a noise, but I was not sure what it was, and then as I finished reading the paper I thought that maybe the noise I heard was the mailman dropping off the mail.

Sure enough that was the noise that I had heard, usually the mailman makes a little more noise, this time it sounded more like a bird flying into the front porch and then flying out again.

After taking care of the mail and the paper I went outside to edge around the front lawn, just about the time I was finishing up Kathleen came out and said the she was ready to go shopping, so I finished what I was doing, cleaned off the shears and put them into the garage.

Then I went into the house, cleaned up and changed clothes and was ready to go. Aaron had called said that the girls wanted to come over to pick some berries, so we told him around 1300 would probably work out for us.

It did not help us get back in time when we left the house at about 1250, but we hurried at the store and made it back by about 1400...almost record time for us. When checking out I overheard the clerk tell Kathleen that we did really well with our coupons. We got several things that we did not need right away, but will be using in the next few weeks or months.

Anyway, Aaron and the girls were here when we got home, they were waiting for us in the house and when the girls hear us drive up the came outside to meet us...they even helped bring the groceries into the house.

After we got the groceries put away, we all went outside and picked raspberries, although I have a feeling that as many berries were eaten as were put into the containers. The girls really had a good time picking berries. While they were doing that I dug up a couple dozen berry plants as the ones I gave them last time did not get planted in time and did not survive.

After the berries were picked, the girls and Kathleen went upstairs to do some work on Kathleen's computer. Aaron and I sat around and talked, but finally I decided that I needed to make myself some lunch. I got out a couple slices of dark rye and smeared some Limburger cheese on them and then put a slice of onion on one side and a couple pickle slices on top and then put them together.

Tami called a little after 1700 and said that she was working on dinner, so about a half hour later they packed up and took off. We had gotten a couple Mexican frozen dinners when we were at Winco so that is what Kathleen made for dinner.

So now Kathleen is fixing the raspberries and I am trying to get caught up on my computer duties. I guess that is about it for tonight, so I will just say good night!