Getting Old is not Much Fun

Yesterday I spent about five hours working outside in the back yard and when I woke up this morning I was really sore but I still needed to mow the lawn. Well around 0945 I decided to go outside and mow, the weather was pretty overcast and it looked like it was getting darker outside and looking like it would start to rain at any moment.

While mowing the front lawn it got really dark and I was wondering if I would be able to finish mowing the front lawn. It never did rain and I was able to finish mowing the whole yard. While mowing the back yard I noticed that a mole has been playing in the lawn; this was never a problem when we had Reggie pacing around the back yard.

After putting the mower away I decided that since it was not raining yet; it still looked like it was going to start raining at any time, I got out my line trimmer and went into the field behind the fence and whacked away at the weeds and blackberry bushes that were growing there. It had been almost a month since I did it and I was surprised at how high everything had grown.

I usually try to keep a fifteen or twenty foot barrier between our yard and the tall grass as in the summer time it all dries out and is a fire hazard so I like to keep the grass cut so that there is a fire break so to speak. I also like to keep the blackberries cut down so that they do not wind up climbing into my grapes and then into the roses.

By the time I finished that I went into the house and cleaned up and rested for a while. My body was really sore by now and I could hardly move. The mail came as I came into the kitchen so I went out and got it...nothing really worth while unless you want to count the Costco coupon flier.

I was showing Kathleen the front gardens and she was trying to figure out where some of the plants were; they were covered up by that vine that I had been working on.

For lunch I reheated the left over Mexican pizza from one day last week. There were only three small pieces left, but it was just enough for lunch.

After resting for a little longer I decided that I would go out and try to pull the rest of the vines out and that way Kathleen could at least see where the plants were. It was so bad that one of the hostas was hidden, so I had to be really careful when I was pulling the vines out.

Well it was 1530 by the time I made it back inside and I had spent another five hours out in the yard; yesterday I had to be careful not to get a sunburn and today I had to stay busy as it was only in the sixties and very little sun.

We were going to go watch Zander's T-ball game tonight but Kathleen was not feeling very well and I was really sore and could not drive by myself; I even took an extra dose of Tylenol to see if I could reduce some of the pain. So for dinner Kathleen heated up a couple cans of Progresso soup.