Autumn has Arrived Right on Time

Well, today marks the beginning of autumn and the temperature and weather certainly has made it official. The temperature only got to the mid sixties today and yesterday and last night we had some rain, not a lot but a definite change from all the dry weather that we have had the last three months or so.

Since it had rained sometime last night and everything was still pretty wet when I went to have my cereal I did not pick raspberries to go along with it so I used raisins instead. I did go out later and picked some just to eat but many of them had gotten too mushy to be picked.

After eating I went out and raked the front lawn; there were not quite as many leaves as I would have though there would be after a rain but that was okay. After raking I went out back and pruned the spent roses and after that I grabbed a few raspberries before going inside.

When I got cleaned up I picked up the rugs in the kitchen, shook them out, swept the floor and then mopped it. While I was waiting for the floor to dry I read for a while and then put the rugs back in place.

By this time it was time for me to think about lunch so I cut up several tomatoes and smeared some Limburger cheese on some wheat bread, put the tomato slices on the bread and then toasted them to really bring out the aroma of the Limburger. Doesn't that just make your mouth water?

After eating I sat in my chair for a while and took a nap; when I got up I decided to gather up some things to take to Goodwill and wrote it down for tax purposes. I got three boxes and four bags of clothes, books, coffee mugs and general junk. Now we just need to get it to the Goodwill drop off.

Kathleen and I had discussed doing some more shopping for things for the bathroom remodel but when 1600 rolled around I decided that it was too late to do much and I was too worn out to do much wandering around. She agreed so I guess we will have to do it some other day.

It has been a rather uneventful day, but at least I have not injured myself and my back and hip is feeling better. If I can gather up the energy I think I might try to box some of the things up from the downstairs bathroom so that I will not have to worry about that when the time comes to start the remodel.

Well, it is a little after 1800 and I think that I will see if I can get Kathleen to reheat something for dinner tonight. We have a couple containers in the refrigerator from a couple nights dinner that should be enough for at least one more meal.