Happy Independence Day!

This morning I woke up tired but since it was already past 0700 I got up, usually I am up and going much earlier, but today even though I was up I could not get going no matter what I did.

Even after eating breakfast, having a cup of coffee and reading the paper I could not motivate myself to do anything so I lay down on the couch. Since I could not fall asleep I got up and decided that I would try to go outside and do some weeding in the triangular garden in front of the living room between the front walkway and the front lawn.

Before I got started weeding I picked up all the fir branches that the squirrels had chewed off for their nest. Then I started at the east side and worked my way around the north side and then the west side. I had done the north side a few weeks ago and by the time I got there I was pretty sore and tired.

I pulled out five, five gallon buckets of mostly violets but there was also some grass and some broad leaf weeds as well. After I finished weeding I got out my blower and air swept the driveway. It seems like this year there have been a lot of fir pollen pods or maybe I am just more aware of them than I had been in the past.

After I put my tools away I went into the house, cleaned up and then made myself a sardine sandwich with some potato salad and macaroni salad and also had some pickled asparagus to give it a picnic flare. Kathleen came downstairs and made herself some brunch so we sat at the table and talked for a while.

I was pretty tired as I had been weeding from about 1015 until 1445 when I got back into the house and cleaned up. So after I put my dishes and silverware into the dishwasher I went and lay down on the couch again. I still could not fall asleep, but when I finally got up again I felt a little less tired. The arthritis in my hip and back were really bothering me from the weeding maybe because I was on the sidewalk for several hours.

Well it is now 1915 and I think that I better check with Kathleen to see if she is going to do anything about dinner, if not I will probably make myself something.