Thursday.'s Taco's

Today started out pretty much the same as the last few days with Kathleen sleeping on the couch, and my trying to keep quiet and not wake her up. She did get up earlier this morning than she had, so I went out and got the paper and put it on my easy chair to read later.

She went to sleep again, so I made myself an onion and mushroom omelet, a Gardenburger sausage and a couple pieces of dark rye toast. After I finished eating, I put my dishes into the dishwasher then I washed the dishes in the sink, from Kathleen last night and also the frying pan from making my omelet and the other hand washing.

As I was finishing up, the mail came, so I went and got it and made myself a cup of hot water, as I was taking the hot water out of the micro wave, I noticed that the micro wave was starting to look pretty raunchy, so after I finished my coffee I scrubbed out the micro wave.

I thought about going and getting the paper out of the living room to read in the kitchen as Kathleen was sleeping again, but it was so nice outside that I thought that I would rake the leaves instead.

So I got my rake and leave collapsible barrel out of the garage and started in, there were not as many leaves as there had been so it only took a short while to rake the front lawn. Yesterday I had started to rake the leaves on the west side of the driveway, better known as the parking lot, so today I finished that as well.

I thought that since I had all the leaves raked up in the front lawn I would mow it as well, so I got my mower out, put the battery in it and went to work. As I was about half way through, someone walking by commented to me that my mower really did a nice job of mowing, but it was not until I released the lever that he realized that it was an electric cordless mower. It is so quiet the most people do not realize that until I actually shut it off.

Anyway, when I finished the whole front lawn, I moved to the back yard. First I raked the lower and middle level and then mowed that. Then I raked the upper level, and even the area where the raspberries are and mowed it.

It was kind of funny to me the by the time I finished mowing the mower was cleaner than when I was just getting started. When I first started the grass was just wet enough that it was sticking to everything on the mower, but by the time I finished the grass was drier and the mower lost most of its grass camouflage.

I still needed to wipe the grass that still was stuck off, but it turned out to be a pretty quick task. I started to go inside, but it was just so nice that I decided that I would put some weed killer on the lawn, it probably is too cool out for it to do much good, but at least I thought that I would give it a try.

I mixed up a gallon and went to work and got just the front lawn and my neighbor's driveway down that also runs along the west side of our yard. So I mixed up another gallon and did the back yard and my other neighbor's side and half of her front lawn. The method to my madness is that by doing the neighbor's lawn that is close to mine, I will eliminate some of the weeds that might creep into our yard.

By the time I finished I was ready to go inside for a while. It was getting pretty close to lunch time so I started to make myself a salad. I have not had one in several weeks as we have been out of salad fixings for a while and Tuesday when I went grocery shopping I bought some.

While I was eating it, I also looked though the mail, as I had not done it earlier. There were several catalogs...I think it is that time of year! I was going to vacuum the downstairs, but Kathleen was still sleeping, or maybe sleeping again, it is hard for me to keep track as she has slept most of the day since Monday.

She got up about 1700 and called the doctor's office and got an appointment for 1730, so I had to change clothes and run her there. The doctor thought that she just had that nasty flu bug that has been going around. She did write her a prescription for some vicodin, but we did not fill it as she still had some.

As we were leaving the doctor's office Kathleen said that she felt like having a hard taco supreme and a nacho supreme, so we went to Taco Bell through the drive in. I had four soft tacos and realized that we had not been to Taco Bell for several years.

One of the reasons that we stopped going was that they never got our order correct, we were either short a few items or just the whole order was wrong. Before most of the time we were just too tired to go back and get the correct items so we just ate what we got. This time we got everything we ordered, but it seemed like it took forever to go through the drive through.

Well, that was my day, it was kind of nice to be able to work outside most of the day, I have been a little frustrated with working on the bathroom with the weather being so nice, but it was something that we needed to have done.

I cannot think of anything else to say so I guess it is time to just say good night!