What Me Overdo? Or was I just Giving My Vicodin a Real Workout Today!

How can this be October already? I am not sure where June, July, August and September went, but any day now we will be starting our rainy season which will probably last until next July.

Well, this morning after eating breakfast I went outside and decided to rake the back lawn seeing how I had not raked it yet this leaf dropping season. Raking was a little harder than it should have been because I had not mowed the back yard in quite a while either.

So as I finished raking the lower level I mowed it and then did the same for the middle and upper level as well. By the time I got to the upper level I was getting pretty tired but I pushed through and finished as I wanted to get it all done before it started raining in the next few days. Once it starts to rain the leaves get really hard to rake up and get heavy as well.

After I finished mowing the upper level, I rested for a little bit and then took my rake and mower up to the front lawn. There were not a lot of leaves on the front lawn but I wanted to rake them up as my old push reel mower does not mulch up the leaves very well.

So by the time I finished mowing the front lawn my hip was really starting to give me fits so when I got into the house and cleaned up I took some more Vicodin and after a while I was feeling better.

Kathleen had her meeting with the lady from church today and so after she left around 1315 I went out and got my blower out and blew the garden area and sidewalk in the back yard. Then I blew off the driveway, the front sidewalk and then the gardens in the front yard.

I noticed that our neighbor's driveway was getting covered with debris so I asked her if she would like me to blow off her driveway and sidewalk, so I did that as well. Once I finished her driveway I put everything away and went into the house and cleaned up.

Since it was now about 1430 I decided that I should make myself something to eat for lunch. So I made a brat on a whole wheat bun and had it with a dozen cherry tomatoes.

Most of the rest of this afternoon I kind of rested, and I am pretty sure that I am not going to get much of anything else done today. I think that I will take some more Vicodin, close this thing and call it done.