So I let Kathleen know that I was going and then started out. I went for about a four and a half mile walk today. I felt pretty good when I got back and the mail had come so I opened it up and sat down and read the mail. I got a couple magazines, which I still have not sat down to read yet, maybe later tonight.
After finishing the mail, I went outside and got ready to pain some more. So I got out my thirty-two foot extension ladder and set it up on the side of the house. Then I got the paint out and changed into my painting clothes. I poured some paint into my small paint bucket and then headed up the ladder.
I got almost half of the east side of the upper part of the house painted. I had hoped to get a little further along, but my arthritis hurt so much that I could hardly hold onto the paint brush. While the cooler overcast weather is great for painting the change in the weather has been raising havoc with my arthritis.
I finally got to a point where I could stop, so I did. I ran out of paint in my small bucket and my body was telling me that I needed to stop, so it was a good time to call it quits. So I took the ladders down and set them along the fence and then pounded the five gallon bucket closed, put it into the garage, changed into my regular clothes and then went into the house to clean the brush and wash up myself.
It was just about 1500 by the time I got into the kitchen to make myself some lunch. I was too tired to think about anything to eat, so I just heated up a Boca burger and pelted some cheese on some toast as I was toasting the bread. I also added a
I was so tired that after I finished eating I went upstairs and went to bed. Kathleen came home about 1715 and I woke up. It took me a while to wake up enough to actually get up and out of bed, but I finally did about 1745.
When I finally got downstairs, I managed to look through a couple of the catalogs that came in today’s mail. Then about 1830 I asked Kathleen what her plans for dinner were, and she said that she did not know. She was planning on seeing what was left over in the refrigerator and have that for dinner.
So she found some left over pasta, a piece of pork loin, some corn on the cob where the cob had been removed, some baby red potatoes, and an avocado. Kathleen did not want the pasta or the pork loin, so I took that, she took the corn and the potatoes, she added an onion and some dill relish and made a potato salad and shared some of that with me. Then she cut the avocado in half and we each had half.
Besides cleaning out the refrigerator we also made a meal out of a lot of little bits of left overs. After dinner I cleared off the table and loaded the dishwasher and started it up. That pretty much takes us up to where I am now. I do believe that I will make this another early to bed night, so I will just say good night now and call it a day.
