A Nice Cool Day

This morning when I got up it was really overcast, little did I know at the time that it was a sign of the rest of the day. I guess that I have lived on the beach long enough to think that the overcast would just burn off around 0900 or 1000 and then be nice and sunny the rest of the day until evening when the fog would roll back in.

So after I finished eating breakfast I decided to go outside since it was still pretty overcast and do some chipping. I hate doing it when it is sunny and hot as all the dust from the chipper settles on me and I look almost like a tree without leaves. As it turned out this was an excellent day to do this as the temperature only got up to the high seventies today.

Anyway, I thought that I would try to pick up as many fir cones as possible from the front and side yard as possible so that while I was chipping branches I could also chip up the fir cones as well. I filled up a fifty gallon barrel with just fir cones (95%) and walnut shells (5%); I could not believe how many there were.

I spent from around 1030 until about 1330 chipping branches and cones, I had two really large garbage cans full of small branches, three or four feet long, and several larger branches from a pile that I had stacked up a couple of weeks ago.

After I finished chipping and putting the chipper away I drug out an old picnic table umbrella and took it apart separating the metal parts for everything else. I put the metal parts with the recycling stuff and the rest I just put into the garbage can.

By the time I finished putting away everything, went into the house and cleaned up it was a little after 1400. I went and got the mail as I had not had an opportunity to get it before and then I realized that I was so tired that I could hardly stand up, so I sat down in the kitchen and then after resting a little bit I got out the lemon cake and cut a slice for my lunch.

That was all that I had the energy for but after a little while longer I asked Kathleen if she wanted her left over salmon and salad from last night and she said she did not so I ate that cold. There was not much left, but it was just enough for me at the moment.

I noticed that my back had really started to hurt, I had not picked up anything heavy but I had been bending over a lot picking up fir cones and then loading the chipper for over four hours so that is probably what was causing it. I guess I will have to take some extra Tylenol today.

Not having a lot of energy left I decided to go through some of my catalogs and magazines that have come in the mail the last couple of days. Kathleen needed to run to Montavilla Sewing Center to pick something up so I suggested that she pick up a Papa Murphy's pizza on the way home. We both like their delight style pizzas so she ordered a three meat for her and a veggie delight for me. That was one pizza split in half.

We had a couple pieces leftover so I will probably have that for lunch tomorrow. Right now I am so tired that I am already having a hard time staying awake. I am fighting going to bed because if I went to bed now I would be awake in the middle of the night and I really do not want to do that.