Tiring Day

I felt pretty good again this morning when I got up. Kathleen got up about the same time as I did only she had a bad headache. On my way downstairs I took two loads of laundry down with me and by 0930 I had washed, dried, folded and put it all away.

Before I made my cereal I went outside and picked a cup of raspberries so I had berries to go along with my banana, Cheerios and shredded wheat. After eating I finished my coffee and read the paper and then went outside and started cutting dead branches out of the old apple tree.

The more I cut the branches out the more I realized that the tree will not be around much longer. There are so many dead branches and so many half rotten branches that by the time I finish trimming them there will not be much left of the tree.

I worked on the tree until about 1300 and then I went inside and made myself a couple open faced sliced chicken with pepper jack cheese on top and then toasted it in the toaster oven.

While that was toasting I also made myself a salad topping it off with garden fresh tomatoes, green onions, yellow peppers and mushrooms. After washing the knives and cutting board and putting everything else into the dishwasher I went and rested for a while in the living room.

Kathleen left for her meeting around 1330 and shortly after that I went back outside and started trying to break up the chunk of concrete at the end of the basketball hoop standard. I finally broke it into enough small and large pieces so that I could pull the pole out.

After I got all the pieces out of the way I filled the hole in with some dirt that I had nearby and then raked it all out so that other than the loose dirt it looked like nothing had been there.

After putting all my tools away I went inside and cleaned up and sat in my chair and fell asleep within minutes only to be awoken when Kathleen called from Bi-Mart to ask me a question. I quickly fell back asleep until shortly before she came back home.

After taking something for my headache I watched the evening news and Kathleen made dinner. We had some squash, a mixed wild rice dish from Trader Joe's and some sesame seed chicken.

Now I am watching Sara Palin's speech and since I cannot think of anything else to say I think I will just call it a day and take some more pain meds so that I can move.