A Really Nice Autumn Day

The weather folks had said that we should expect morning fog this morning, but I never noticed any. The ground was pretty wet from rain but the sky was pretty clear. So after breakfast I emptied the dishwasher and then went outside to rake the front lawn. There are just enough leaves falling that if I do not keep at it every morning they get really heavy when they get wet and make it really hard to rake up.

Another reason is that it does not take that long if I do it everyday and I have some energy left to do other things. So after I finished raking I got out my ladder and cleared off the pollen pods and fir needles from the valleys on the front of the house. There are four of them and three of them get really full of needles and pollen pods.

Kathleen had gone to church to do some knitting with some other women for different projects that they donate the things they make to.

The gutters on the front corners of the house also still have to be cleaned out as they were the only ones that I could not get Leaf Guard gutters put on since they were only at the corners and not enough room for the product. But even with that I only gathered out about seven gallons of goopy needles and pods where before there would be twenty or thirty gallons every couple of months.

The best part of it is that I do not have to climb up thirty-two feet in the rear of the house to clean out that gutter any longer. I was able to get everything with one section of my small extension ladder. That made it much easier getting set up and I was not as tired after putting everything away.

After I had the gutters cleaned out I got out my blower and blew off all of the sidewalks, then the driveway and then around the gardens in the front yard. By this time though I was getting a bit tired, but not as tired as I had been a few weeks ago so maybe I am doing a little better.

Best of all my back and hip did not give me any grief either so that was a added bonus! Not wanting to push my luck I went into the house, cleaned up and then sat down with my feet up and rested in my chair for a while.

Before I knew it, it was almost 1300 so I figured that I would make myself something to eat. Today I used some Talking Cow cheese on some wheat bread with sliced up tomatoes and then broiled them in the toaster oven. The cheese was pretty old so instead of spreading it I had to slice it up and put the slices on the bread with the tomato slices on top of them.

After eating I checked my email and then went and sat down in my chair for as I was more tired than I though that I was and my eyes were bothering me; probably something irritated them when I was cleaning the pollen pods from the valleys and corner gutters. Kathleen called while I was resting and said that she was going to go to Bi-Mart and wanted to know if I needed anything; I reminded her that I needed a pair of rubber gloves to help me put on my compression socks.

The rubber gloves were a trick that I learned from the fitter at the medical supply place where I bought them. I had been using a pair of Kathleen's but they were a couple sizes too small and with the arthritis in my hands I had a really hard time putting them on.

So when she got home I tried them on and they go on much easier and should make putting the socks on a little less painful.

Kathleen was watching Becca and Lexis tonight while Tami takes a class; I am staying home as I have been going to bed around 2100 lately and we would not be getting home around 2230 of so.

Well that just about does it for me tonight I am starting to get a little tired and my brain is not working as well as I would like right now.