Still Hot Today!

The weatherman keeps saying that it is suppose to cool down but tonight he said that it was ninety-one degrees today and that is not cool in my book. Forty degrees is getting cool; but for me anything over seventy degrees is getting rather warm.

Anyway this morning after breakfast, coffee and reading the paper I decided that I would go for a walk since I had not done that for a while. I thought that it would be cooler this morning so I thought that I could get away with a quick walk, but like the weatherman I was wrong!

I got almost half way around the block and my hip started bothering me but I kept walking thinking that I could walk myself out of it. While it did not get any worse it also did not get any better. I do know that it did take a lot of energy out of me and I think that fighting the pain really did me in for the rest of the day.

So when I got home I went out back and sat in the sun for a while thinking that the heat might do me some good. I think that it might have helped as my hip did not bother me the rest of today.

After sitting for about a half hour I decided to eat some berries so I picked some blue berries, raspberries and apples. I gathered up another two and a half gallons of apples, unfortunately once they hit the ground they are not very good to eat.

After my snack I decided to do a little pruning on the roses by the outside basement stairs. The tree rose had a lot of spent roses so I spent a lot of time on it and got about three quarters of the tree rose trimmed.

The mail came while I was doing that so I decided to stop and get the mail thinking that I would go back and finish it later on in the day. I went through the mail and just about all of it went into the recycling bin.

Andrea had called while I was outside and since Kathleen was not up when I went outside I took the phone with me. I told Andrea that I would have Kathleen call when she got up, so once I got inside I went upstairs and checked and she still was not up.

When Kathleen came downstairs I told her that Andrea had called so after talking to Andrea Kathleen made herself some breakfast. Since it was around 1300 I decided to make myself some lunch. I had not had a veggie burger for a while so I heated one up and had it on a toasted whole wheat bun with an onion slice, some pepper-jack cheese and some dill relish.

After I finished lunch I took a nap on the couch in the living room, not that I had intended on taking a nap but that is how things turned out. I awoke when the phone rang and then got up and walked around a bit. I guess that I had not finished sleeping because shortly after I sat down again I fell asleep and this time was awaken when the UPS man dropped off a package and rang the door bell.

Tonight was clean out the refrigerator night, I finished up the deli salads that we had in the refrigerator, five of them, and Kathleen made herself a spinach salad. I was hoping that we would go grocery shopping today but I realized that we did not have any room in the refrigerator to put anything we might buy.

One thing I did accomplish today was make an appointment with the gastroenterologists who did my colonoscopy last fall to see if he has any suggestions as to what might be causing all of my bowel problems. I could not get an appointment until August 12th but it is nothing that is really of an emergency nature so I guess that that is okay. They did put me on a cancellation alert so that if anyone cancels before then they will call me.