Trying to Catch-up!

This morning while eating breakfast, reading the paper and having my morning coffee I could tell that it was going to be a hot one today. So after I finished breakfast I loaded up the dishwasher, turned it on and then picked up the rugs and shook them out. While the rugs were up I swept and mopped the kitchen floor and while it was drying I went outside.

I ran out of energy yesterday and did not pick up the boxes that the Adirondack chairs, stools and table had come in so I did that. I piled them on the side of the driveway so that they will be easy to put out for recycling on Tuesday.

Once I had yesterdays mess cleaned up I started on today’s mess; I got out my hedge trimmer and whacked away on the boxwood hedge in the back yard separating the vegetable garden and the raspberries from the rest of the back yard.

Trimming the hedge was not the hard part; it was cleaning up the clippings that was the hardest and took the longest. After putting clippings in the yard debris barrel I went into the house, cleaned up and then put the kitchen rugs back down.

After drinking some water I went back outside and got out my blower and air swept the driveway. Those fir pollen pods and fir cones had been falling again and I did not have the energy to dispose of them any other way. I also air swept the back and front sidewalks and around the front lawn so that everything looked like someone cared about how things looked.

After putting the electric cord and the blower I watered the front garden as everything was getting pretty dry since we have not had any real rain in several weeks. I thought about watering the front lawn as well but it is still relatively green because I raise the cutting height up and also because I use a reel mower it stays greener longer.

By the time I finished watering I was getting tired and hungry so I went into the house, cleaned up and made myself some lunch. Then I went and took a nap in the living room. When I woke up I felt better so I went back outside and watered the blueberries, and the vegetable garden since it had been a few days since I watered them.

Then I went inside and took another snooze. I just woke up a few minutes ago and though that I better try to blog a little before I fall asleep again. I think I need to go upstairs and check with Kathleen to see what she is planning for dinner tonight. We have some fresh salmon but since it is over ninety degrees she may not feel like having that tonight.