After Months of Rainy Weather...

I got up a little earlier than I had planned on but when I looked at the clock it was a half hour before I had planned on getting up and I knew that I probably would not get to sleep right away and then I would have slept in longer that I wanted so I got up. I felt much better than I had been feeling which was a nice change for me.

So after eating breakfast, reading the paper and doing the dishes I went outside and took the recycling up front. After that I went into the back yard and mowed the lawn. Stan got here before I finished, so I helped him unload the doors that he picked up at the store. Then I went and finished mowing the lawn and the west side of the fence so the weeds over there would not creep into my lawn.

Since Stan was making a threshold for the upstairs bathroom I decided to edge the vegetable garden and do a little more weeding. I worked on it for a while and pretty soon Kathleen came out and said that she and Stan were going to his house so that she could look at the molding that Stan used when he remodeled their house.

I got tired and sore enough that as I was putting my tools away they were just returning. The sun was really getting hot and even though it was not terribly hot, being in the direct sunlight made it feel that much hotter. I had better get use to it as they are predicting ninety and possibly one hundred degree temperatures by this week end.

Right now it looks like at least four days in the nineties and possibly more, they are not going past next Monday so it looks like we are in for our first hot spell for a while. I just wish that some year it will gradually work up to the hot temperatures instead of going from the sixties and seventies to the nineties and one hundred degrees. The older I get the less my body can deal with that kind of swing in temperatures.

After Stan finished with the threshold, I helped him install two doors upstairs. One door went in Toni's old room and the other door in Andrea's old room. Tomorrow we will put doors on Kathleen's sewing/computer room and our bedroom. Then we will have new matching doors on all the rooms.

When we did the remodeling twenty years ago we never got around to staining the doors that we put in at that time and Kathleen said that she never liked the style anyway. When we did that remodel I think that Kathleen's dad was just trying to get similar doors as was already up there even though Kathleen did not like them.

Toni and one of her friends stopped over last night so I got a chance to ask her how she liked and she seemed to be enjoying it so far. Of course the newness and all that probably has not had a chance to wear off yet either.

Tonight for dinner Kathleen made a half a chicken breast and a macaroni salad for dinner. There is plenty of macaroni salad left over for another meal or two and even some of the chicken breast.

Well I do not feel overly tired tonight which is a nice feeling after being so tired for so long...I think that I could get use to feeling like this. Now if I could only get my body ready for the really hot weather coming up toward the end of the week.