Saturday's Summer Surrender

I slept in a little again this morning; it was just that kind of morning. It was a little after 0700 before I got out of the house and started on my walk, I decided to go right to the high school and see how it looked and then if it was not it bad shape I could reverse my normal route and still get a good walk in.

Well, it is a good thing I started at the high school rather than end there; I found out once I got there that there was not only a game but also a dance last night so the parking lots and the football field were rather full. I lost track of how many bags of trash I picked up; I would go from one garbage can to the next emptying my bag at each can. Sometimes in the parking lots there was enough trash that I would empty my bag two or three times at the same can.

Anyway I finally got home a little after 0900 and made myself breakfast. The contractor who is custom making our vanity cabinets had called and was going to come over with his bid while I was out on my walk, so I had Kathleen call him back and have him come over about 1030. After breakfast, I emptied the dishwasher and then read the paper.

He called and said that he was running a little late, and finally got her about 1100. We had a good visit and the bid came in very reasonable so we told him that we would go ahead with it and he will start on them in a couple weeks. He was going to tile the floors for us as well, but decided that he did not want to be going up and down the stairs to do the tile work, so we will use the other contractor to do that as well as the other work he is doing for us.

After he left, I called one of the other lending institutions to see what kind of offer they had for us for our home equity loan. The interest rate was a little higher than the first one, but they did not need any closing costs, so I will need to factor that in when we make our decision.

After taking care of that, I went outside, I was going to rake the leaves, but decided that I would do a little weeding and then rototill the section of the side yard just east of the back door. I had been weeding it, but I thought that rototilling it would slow the weeds down a little.

After coming inside and cleaning up, I made myself a Morning Star veggie burger on some toasted bread heels with onion, pickles and melted cheese; I also had the leftover potato salad from last night to finish off my meal. I decided that I was tired enough that I would lie down and take a nap; trouble was that I turned on the Ohio State game and did not get any sleep, just some rest.

Well, we are going out tonight to celebrate Tami's birthday, so we are just about ready to eat, and I think that I will take a quick shower before that, so I am going to say good night a little early tonight.