How My Afternoons Seem to Go

I read this cartoon this morning and it reminded me of how my afternoons seem to go lately except without the grandchildren.

While I am here I thought that I might as well start my blog so here goes. This morning when I woke up it was drizzling a little bit so when the sun finally made it behind the clouds I went outside to pick the tomatoes that were reddish orange or red so that they would not be split by the rain that was on its way.

As it was there were many of the cherry tomatoes that had split already, so when I got them inside and washed I separated the good ones from the ones that had split and put the split ones in a bowl. Then I checked the ones I had picked the other day and took out the ones that had split and put them in the bowl as well.

Once I finished doing the tomatoes I emptied the dishwasher and then toasted some scones that Kathleen had made a few days ago. Along with the scones I also had the bowl of cherry tomatoes and my morning coffee.

After putting my dishes into the dishwasher the friend who we went out to dinner with he and his wife Monday night called and inquired about our antenna and wanted to know if he could pick it up in a little while, so I said sure.

While I was waiting for him I went out front and raked the walnut leaves from the front lawn. He arrived while I was still raking so I stopped and helped him load it into his car and then we talked for a while.

Kathleen came out while we were talking but our neighbor said hi to her while we were talking so Kathleen went over there and visited with her for a while. She finally got home about 1230, so maybe it was more than a while.

While Kathleen was visiting the mail came so I got it and went through it and all but a magazine for Kathleen and a L.L.Bean and a Lands End catalog for me just about everything else I filed in the box for recycling.

I think I will leave this for a while to see if I get anything else to write about later on today.

Well after I left off writing my blog Kathleen made herself breakfast, and since it was a little after 1300 I decided to make myself some lunch. There was a little bit of the mashed potatoes left over from last night’s dinner so I had that and made myself a sardine sandwich. I offered to let Kathleen dunk her English muffin in the left-over sardine juice, but she declined, so I cut off the crust from my sandwich and sopped it up myself.

After we both finished eating I put our dishes into the dishwasher and then went into the living room and sorted out the magazines and catalogs that had been gathering next to my chair and on the trunk next to it.

I wound up recycling a couple dozen catalogs and a few magazines; I mostly sorted out the magazines and I am planning and will go through them and cut out the articles that I want to keep and then recycle the skeletons later.

Well, that about does it for me today; for some reason my thumb joints have really been bothering me today, maybe it is from the change in the weather. I guess it must be time for some more Vicodin.