Almost a nice day

I awoke about 0430 this morning with my nose just about totally blocked so I sprayed it a couple times with that decongestant spray and it cleared it up and I was able to get back to sleep again. When I finally got up again it was really dreary looking outside and the weather people were saying that it was going to rain.

After finishing breakfast and the paper I went and sat in my chair for a while and then I went outside and gathered up the garbage can, the recycling bin and the yard debris barrel after they had been emptied. Then I got some more bird seed and filled up the one bird feeder as it had been empty for about a day or so.

While I was doing that the mail came so I met the mail man at the street and brought it in. There was not anything for me worth keeping but Kathleen got a book from her cousin in Seattle. I had been meaning to make some adjustments on my little reel mower so I went out to the garage and worked on it for a while and then adjusted the cutting height as I had been cutting it really low because the grass was growing so fast.

I thought that I would see how it cut so I put the battery in and started it up. I thought that I had set the cutting height too high so I stopped it and lowered it a little bit. The grass was cutting pretty well so I kept cutting and finished the back yard. The battery still had some juice left so I went and mowed the west side of the driveway and the neighbor's grass just on the other side of the fence and their driveway.

When the battery started getting weak I decided to stop and put the battery on the charger. I wanted to trim the grass around the sidewalk in the back yard so I got out my little cordless line trimmer and trimmed it. I also trimmed the grass in the neighbor's driveway near the property line and around the other neighbor's house and stone wall where her son's mower did not get.

By the time the trimmer ran out of power I was tired and hungry so I put everything away and went inside and cleaned up. I made myself a sardine sandwich on jalapeño bread. I had a dill pickle to top it all off. After cleaning up my mess I went and sat down again and just as I was getting comfortable the UPS man rang the door bell. It was something that I had ordered for Kathleen for her birthday but had gotten back ordered.

For dinner tonight I made myself a hoagie sandwich with sliced ham, chicken and provolone cheese on a hoagie bun and another dill pickle. Kathleen had an online class on about her sewing machine tonight so she ate a little earlier.