Is it Time to Start Building an Arc Yet?

I could hear the rain on the skylight most of the night so when I got up I was not surprised to see everything wet outside. Since I had forgotten to take the garbage up front last night I took it up when I took the recycling up.

This morning after eating breakfast, I loaded the dishwasher up and started it up and then poured myself a fresh cup of coffee and read the paper. The mail came as I was finishing the paper so I got it after I put the paper into the recycling bin.

So I refilled my cup and sorted through the mail. There was not much there only a bill for my x-rays of my hip; it was only for the amount that the insurance had not covered since I had not met my deductible yet. I think that I have now so I should not have to pay any more the rest of the year.

It is funny as the last three years are the only time that I have ever met my deductible, Kathleen on the other hand usually meets it in the first couple months of the year.

While I was paying the bill online I noticed that I had received my federal income tax refund deposited it to my checking account. It will be kind of nice as it will more than offset the state tax that I had to pay. The rest of it I applied to my home equity loan bill to bring down the principle.

This afternoon after I finished lunch I went outside and pulled some of the vines that are growing in the flower beds in the front of the kitchen windows. The started from a hanging basket we got a few years ago that just started taking over everything in the flower beds.

My time outside was short lived as it started raining after I had been out there about a half hour. I do not have that much more to do, and I should be able to get it done in another hour or so. Part of the problem now is that the hostas and several other plants are starting to come up, so I probably will wait a while longer so that I can see where everything is.

Tonight Kathleen made the rest of the ham soup that she made a while back. For some reason it was a little runnier that it had been, but it was still good. She also made some whole wheat biscuits and we ate about half of them. Kathleen did not finish her soup, so I will have that and something else for lunch tomorrow.