Not Much Going on Today

This morning when I got up I felt pretty good, my finger and hand were not throbbing like they were much of yesterday. When I got into the light I could see that the swelling had gone down and not as blue as it has been for the last couple of days which was a good thing.

This morning after eating I changed clothes so that I could meet with the guys at one of their homes at 1000. We finished a little after 1230 and then I picked up a prescription for Kathleen; there were suppose to be two of them but only one was ready and the other one I knew that she did not need right away so I did not stick around and wait for it.

Then on the way home I stopped off at Goodwill and I found a fertilizer spreader for $6.99; my old one broke over a year ago and I have been using it that way for the last eight times that I have put fertilizer down. I am not sure how it happened but the lever that controls dropping of the fertilizer broke off and it was a real struggle for me to keep the lever pulled in.

As my arthritis has gotten worse it became more and more painful for me all the time. This one is almost identical to my old one except that nothing appears to be broken so next time when I need to use it I can test it out to make sure that everything is okay.

Anyway I got home a little after 1300 and then I changed into my shorts again and went downstairs and made myself a Boca Burger on toasted dark rye bread heels with an onion slice and melted cheddar cheese.

AS I was taking some recycling into the utility room I slipped on the floor and when I looked down I noticed that the almost new bottle of fabric softener had fallen off the washer and the cap had broken and spilled out all over the floor. So I got out our commercial size mop and mopped and mopped and mopped; each time wringing the mop out as best I could with sore hands.

Finally when I had gotten most of the fabric softener up I wrung it out one last time and then set it outside so that it could dry. Then I got our smaller mop out and mopped it two more times. Then left it to dry and took a couple Vicodin and went to check my email.

After that I went and sat down in my chair and fell asleep only to be awakened when Kathleen came downstairs. She had been working on Natalie's dress and Alyssa and the grandchildren were coming over for a fitting.

While Kathleen, Alyssa and Natalie tried on the dress I tried entertaining the grandsons. They played with blocks, my remote control Jeep, Kathleen's Bill Bass singing fish and the most fun thing was an empty box.

When Natalie came back downstairs she wanted me to read her some stories so I read her several Bible stories for one of our grandchildren books. Before long everyone had settled down and were either sitting on me or standing next to me to hear the stories.

The grandchildren wanted a snack so I gave them each some black bean chips and that seemed to make them happy for about five minutes. Alyssa found some of her old stuffed animals downstairs and so she took them home with her. When she first came back upstairs she got some graham crackers for them and they munched on them while I finished reading to them.

They left a little before 1900 and so Kathleen reheated the rice and green beans from last night; she also heated up some corn to go with the salmon which we had cold.

So other than mopping the utility room floor I did not get anything done today. I did not get to work outside today as shortly after I ate lunch it started raining and so that pretty much took away the opportunity to accomplish anything outdoors.

Maybe tomorrow I will have a more productive day, but right now I am just going to post this and call it a day.