This morning I took my cereal, coffee and the paper outside and sat out by my gardens and enjoyed the cool morning and the birds singing. After I ate I went out front and watered the gardens around the front of the house and then raked the front lawn.
After I finished in the front yard I went to the back yard and watered all the gardens and then pruned the spent roses. Kathleen came out while I was watering and sat in the sun for a while. After I finished watering I sat in one of our Adirondack chairs for a while and watched the birds and squirrels enjoying themselves.
After cooling down and resting for a while I went back into the house and got the mail; although other than one magazine there really was nothing worth keeping so most of it went either into the recycling or got shredded. I have been shredding everything with my name on it; I use to just shred things that had an account or some other important information but I have heard that identification thief's can get important information off almost anything that has a name and bar codes on it.
While I was in my office shredding I decided that I would reconcile my credit union accounts as I got the statement yesterday but since we were gone most of the day I did not get a chance to do it yesterday. Both my savings and checking accounts checked out fine the first time through, it usually does but sometimes I forget to put information into my Quicken checkbook or some of the automatic monthly amounts change and I need to update them when I do my reconciliation.
Anyway by the time I finished it was getting to be close to 1300 so I made myself some lunch and then when I finished I went and took a shower before my doctor's appointment. I usually like to take my showers either first thing in the morning or just before going to bed at night.
When I have a doctor's appointment, other than ones that are first thing in the morning I usually wait until just a little before my appointment; that way I can get some work done and not have to worry about needing a shower when I am at the doctor's.
I made an appointment because my back and hip have been bothering me enough so that I do not go for walks or exercise as much as I should and when I sit too long I can hardly get up. Also my feet have been pretty swollen the last couple of months.
The doctor said that my back is not going to get any better on its own but unless the pain starts going down my legs there is not much to worry about. He did prescribe some Vicodin for me which I went and got filled.
He said that the swelling was probably as a result of the Lotrel that I have been taking for several years and he said that it finally caught up with me. One of the side effects is Edema which is retaining fluids in organs and the skin is an organ.
Just to be sure he had a blood draw taken and several tests run so now I have to wait for the test results to come back to find out what my next course of action will be. I do not wait well so it will be a long weekend and I asked Cory the doctor's nurse and she said that the results would not be back until Tuesday or Wednesday.
After leaving the doctor's office I went to Fred Meyer to have my prescription filled; since I had to wait twenty-five minutes for them to fill it I went out to the garden area and looked around and before I knew it a half hour had passed. By the time I got back to the pharmacy and waited on line it had been over a half hour, but the good thing was that my prescription was ready for me.
Since I had not gotten gas for my Jeep since last February and I paid 2.979 a gallon; today I paid 3.539 a gallon and cost me fifty dollars but when one figures that it had only cost me fifty dollars over seven months that is not too bad.
By the time I got home it had been two hours since I had taken off for the doctor's office and I was getting pretty tired by then. So after I changed clothes I came back downstairs and checked my e-mail.
Kathleen had a woman’s dinner at church so around 1830 I made myself a hoagie sandwich with some slice deli turkey, ham and roast beef. We still had some left-over tuna and macaroni salad and a deli salad that Kathleen bought last night so I had some of each to go along with my sandwich.
Well I think this is about all that I have the energy for today.
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It's nice to hear that you are relaxing a bit and enjoying your gardens after all the hard work you have put into them.
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