Sloppy Saturday

I had a good walk this morning and when I got home I made myself a Southwestern omelet for breakfast with a Gardenburger sausage and a couple slices of dark rye toast. This is the last day until after my colonoscopy that I will be able to have seeds or nuts, so I thought I would make the most out of it.

After eating I loaded the dishwasher and then went and read the paper. After I finished the paper I decided to go outside and pull out the rest of the ivy on the west side of the garage since the mail had not come yet. Just as I was going around the fence to get to the side of the garage I saw the mailman a couple housed down, so I waited for him and got the mail.

Not wanting to interrupt my plans to get the ivy gone, I just put the mail in the house and then proceeded to work on the ivy. I finally got it all pulled out at least what I could get. There will be some coming up later I am sure from the roots that broke off, but at least the majority of it is gone.

Since the ivy was out of there I also decided to dig up my iris tubers and either plant them someplace else or see if anyone wanted any. I have given away over a hundred iris tubers over the last few years, so I probably will keep some of them, but I have more than I need right now.

Kathleen came out looking to see what I was up to while I was in the middle of digging out the iris and by that time I already had a ten gallon can filled as well as a five gallon bucket. I must have stopped just long enough for me to realize that I was getting pretty tired, so I stopped what I was doing and cleaned up my tools.

Kathleen had discovered some ripe raspberries so she shared a couple of them with me. It is amazing that in the middle of October we still have raspberries that are ripe.

I happened to look down at my shoes and noticed that they were coated in mud. While it has not rained for a couple days, the ground is wet enough that when I dug it up I loosened it up enough to make a nice muddy pile, so before I could go into the house I tried to get as much off as possible.

Once inside I put them into the sink and scrubbed them with a fingernail brush to get the mud off. They were rubberized garden shoes so getting them wet did not hurt them. Then I scrubbed myself off and went into the house and read the mail.

We had gotten our credit union statement, so I reconciled our savings and my checking accounts and then filed the paperwork. Then I made myself a spinach and romaine salad with yellow and red peppers, cucumbers, radishes, green onion, mushrooms and a tomato then I topped it off with some raspberry dressing and some red wine vinegar.

So after putting my dishes into the dishwasher I went into the living room and looked at a couple of the catalogs that came today. Not being able to sit still any longer, I went upstairs and took the door off the bathroom cupboard and then the molding. Not being able to do any more damage there I started to pull the paneling off the wall above the stairway and made quit the mess. So I went out to the garage and got my big shopvac and vacuumed the upstairs floor, the stairs and the downstairs landing.

For dinner tonight Kathleen made some salmon, fried sugar pod peas and Tatar tots. Everything tasted pretty good and could have eaten more, but I was satisfied and refrained from eating what Kathleen did not want.

Well, that is all I can think about for tonight, I think that I will be taking my shower and heading to bed a little early tonight, so I am just going to say good night now.