Not Enough Sleep

I was awaken by the phone ringing this morning a little after 0500 and could not get back to sleep so I finally just got up. After emptying the dishwasher I made myself breakfast, a fresh pot of coffee and read the paper.

Then finally a little after 0900 I went outside to work on the area where Stan and I picked up the junk on the west side. I wanted to move some of the dire that had made its way to the driveway and also pick up some of the smaller pieces that we did not want to take the time to pick up yesterday.

I filled up the garbage can and did not make a dent on what is left. It will probably take me another couple of months to get it all picked up. It is mostly small wood scraps but there is also some scrap metal, cardboard and plastic. Just getting the stuff we got out of there yesterday makes it look like a different place.

I can now get to my roses along the driveway without having to climb over a bunch of wood. Anyway the dirt that I scrapped off the driveway I used to fill a couple of divots that Stan's tires left last winter. When it cools down a little more I am going to try to cut back into the slope some more and move that dirt up to the front of the driveway on the west side.

By making a straight shot into the garage I will now be able to get my Jeep in and out of the garage a lot easier. The way it was before I had to spend time jockeying around to get the Jeep straight into the garage and if I did not I would have to spend the time jockeying around to get it out; it should be much easier now.

One of my next goals after I pick up the rest of the junk is to remove the old basketball hoop; since we do not have children living here any longer it does not get any use. The backboard and pole is still in pretty good shape; I cut the net down as it was really tattered.

The temperature outside in the shade this morning when I finally made it into the kitchen this morning was only about sixty-seven degrees and it only got up to the mid eighties today so even though it was still warmer than I like it, it was a vast improvement from the last couple of days.

Anyway after I picked up the junk by the driveway I mowed the front lawn since I had not done that for a couple of days, and by the time I finished with that I had worked up a pretty good sweat. So after attempting to air dry off I went inside and washed up. It was almost noon so I got the mail and started going through it; it contained mostly magazines and a couple credit card bills. I set the magazines aside to look through later and put the bills on the desk in my office.

It had gotten to be a little after 1300 so I made myself some lunch; actually I reheated up the Spinach and Mozzarella Ravioli that I made last Thursday and also some of the macaroni salad from this weekend.

Kathleen had come downstairs and made herself breakfast and when I finished I told her that I was going into the living room to rest in my chair and that I probably would be sleeping before too long. I was correct, Kathleen came into the living room and asked if I were asleep and I must have just dozed off because I woke up a little startled. I was able to fall back asleep in less than a minute and slept for a couple of hours.

Even though I got more than eight hours sleep between last night and my nap I would have liked to not have been awoken so early this morning. After I woke up I went through all of the magazines and catalogs that came today and by the time I finished it was almost 1700 so I suggested to Kathleen that she just heat up the leftovers from last night for dinner; so she did.

I am not sure if anyone will be reading this as everyone seems to be facebooking now, but I thought that I would write it just the same. If you are reading this let me know, unless I hear from people I think I might stop blogging on a regular basis.