Milder Monday

After a couple days of pretty good rain, hail and what-ever today was rather mild. I think that it rained early in the morning, before the sun came out, but the rest of the day was mostly rain free.

I decided to stay in bed a little longer this morning as I was feeling the drainage starting to drain already and I though that it was going to be another day like yesterday. When I did get up, I decided that I would not go for a walk as I did not want to spend the rest of the day coughing.

I made myself a breakfast pilaf, by Kashi and added raisins and a banana to the mix topping it off with soy milk made a pretty healthy breakfast. After eating, I emptied the dishwasher and then put in my breakfast dishes. There was also some pots and pans that needed washing so I did that as well.

Then I made myself some hot lemon juice and honey to sooth my throat and headed to the living room to read the paper. Monday is usually the smallest paper and so it did not take too long to get through. Then mail came while I was reading the paper so I got it and went through it as well. Again there was not much there.

When I took the paper and mail to the laundry room to put in the recycling bag, I remembered that I still had the towels in the dryer, so I took it out, folded them and put them away.

The weather looked like it was going to stay clear for a while, so I decided that I would go for a walk. I took a shorter than normal walk, I am trying to learn not to push myself when I am not feeling well. I would have liked to go a little longer, but I was at a point where I either had to go back or be gone for a lot longer and I chose to head back.

After a while I went outside and pruned the roses and dig up tree suckers. I also gathered up the cans, plastic bottles and paper recycling and set the bin on the front porch to put up front in the morning. After cleaning up I realized that it was almost 1500 and I had not eaten yet.

I made myself a salad and opened a can of sardines that I had with some onion rye bread. I think that it took me longer to make the salad than it did to eat it. After eating I sat down in my easy chair and dozed off and on for a while.

I finally decided to get up and go on my computer and start my blog. I had gotten about half way through when Kathleen asked me about dinner. She made a chicken breast, some potato pancakes, corn and opened up a jar of apple sauce. She was not too sure about the potato pancakes, but I liked them.

The potato pancakes were frozen from Trader Joe's and we had not had them before, but I have liked most of the things we have tried from there. I remember having potato pancakes growing up and I always like them. Kathleen said that they reminded her of the state fair...I think it was probably greasy deep fried smell.

Well, I just got done putting the left-overs into the refrigerator and the dishes into the dishwasher. It is kind of funny that between the two of us we did not even eat a whole chicken breast, there was still two pieces left and will make a nice lunch for me tomorrow. Well, I cannot think of anything else to say other than good night.