Fall is Officially Here!

Question: How does one tell when fall is officially here? When the hostas leaves turn yellow and we have more rainy days than sunny days.

This week end was pretty wet around here; it rained most of Saturday and then again on Sunday. I started wearing my compression socks again on Saturday as my feet and legs had really been swelling a lot the last few days.

My legs were really throbbing Saturday from having the sock on for the first time in several days and by the end of the day I was really glad to take them off. I do not think I got a lot accomplished Saturday except sort out some magazine and catalogs. I even throw out a dozen or so.

Sunday my side was really bothering me and so I did not go to church. Kathleen had not gotten up early enough to go either. I took a lot of Tylenol and Vicodin but I never could get rid of the pain all day.

I pretty much sat around all day; although I did go through more magazines and threw out a couple dozen. I still have a pretty good size stack left but I have managed to throw out a sizable amount of them. It is one of those things that I kept thinking that some day there might be something in one of them that I could use.

Of all the magazines that I have been going through I have only cut out a handful of articles. So much of that stuff is now on the internet that it hardly makes any sense to try to find a place to store magazine articles anymore.

My legs felt a lot better Sunday and by the end of the day my side was not as bothersome; whether it was better or the build up of Tylenol and Vicodin that finally was enough to deaden the pain. Whatever it was I was glad to be rid of the annoying pain.

Today the pain was gone so maybe it started getting better last night. I wish that I could say the same for the joints in my wrists, hips and back but at least I have gotten somewhat accustom to that pain.

This morning it was not raining out so after breakfast I went outside and picked up fir cones and branches that had fallen over the blustery weekend. Once I had them picked up I went to work on raking the leaves off the front lawn. I had not done it in a few days but there were not as many leave on the lawn as I would have expected but I think that the wind was strong enough that they blew else where.

I had intended on raking the leaves in the back yard but wanted to rest a while before I did so I went to the rose garden and pruned the roses, and by the time I finished that I did not feel like raking any more so I went into the house, cleaned up and got the mail.

It was a little after noon and since Kathleen had an appointment with her nurse practitioner at 1400 I decided that I would just read the mail and then make myself something to eat before we had to leave. There was just enough of the chicken noodle soup that Kathleen had made Saturday night and we had again last nigh for me to finish for lunch today.

After I heated it up in the microwave I ground up a little nutmeg and crushed up some saltines and had some cherry tomatoes. After I pit my dishes into the dishwasher I washed up and changed my clothes and then waited for Kathleen.

We got out of the office around 1500 and headed to the medical supply house so that I could get another pair of socks. After picking them up we went to Fred Meyer so that we could pick up Kathleen's prescriptions. While we were there we did a little grocery shopping and then finally got home just before 1800.

Well, that is about all I can think of for now...good night!