Too sore to get much done

This morning when I woke up I could hardly close my hands I guess my arthritis did not like all the pounding from breaking up the concrete yesterday. After taking some Tylenol I could close them with a little pain so I made myself some French toast for breakfast.

After eating I finished my coffee and paper and then went to work on the kitchen. First I washed all the dishes in the sink, and then I picked up the rugs, shook them up, loaded them into the washer and washed them. While I had the rugs up I swept and mopped the kitchen floor; then went outside and pruned the roses, topped the fox glove and pulled some weeds.

Since it was still like a morning at the beach, extremely overcast and cool feeling, working outside seemed like a good idea, and then I realized that my hands were starting to object again. Before I went back inside I picked a couple dozen cherry tomatoes a couple early girl tomatoes and three roma tomatoes.

The mail had come so I went and brought it in, opened it up and filed most of it in the recycling pile and put the magazines in the living room for me to read later on. Kathleen had wanted to go look for cabinets for the downstairs bathroom as we are hoping to start on the remodel in a couple weeks.

Well this afternoon I did not get a lot done, I took a nap while I was waiting for Kathleen to want to go cabinet shopping and when I got up I decided that since she had not come down yet I would do my last fertilizing of the summer of the lawn. I will be doing another later this fall and again this winter but this was the last for the summer.

After I fertilized the front lawn I watered the gardens around the front sidewalk as I had noticed that the soil was getting pretty dry. It is amazing how quickly the soil dries out after being so wet last week.

While I was fertilizing the back lawn I noticed three gold finches; yesterday I had seen one feeding at the thistle feeder; I had heard them chirping in the trees before but I had not actually seen them. They really blend in well in the canopy of the golden mountain ash tree so it has been hard to pick them out, but today and yesterday I saw them in the apple tree.

When I got back in the house Kathleen was dressed and deciding whether or not to go cabinet shopping as it was 1530 and that did not allow much time to look at many places.

Well, keyboarding is not the most comforting thing for my hands so I think that I am going to quit and call it good!