Cleaning up

Well, I did get some sleep last night, I did not get up until 0815 and considering that I went to bed at 2100 that is a long time for me to stay in bed. So I must have been as tired as I felt.

I did not get much done this morning other than make myself breakfast and put away the dishes I washed last night. Oh, I guess that I did change the water in the beta's globe, but that only took about fifteen minutes.

This afternoon I put on another coat of oil on the planter bench that I had been working on earlier in the week. I also picked up some of the foliage from the irises that I dug up for Alyssa Monday.

After that I spent most of the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the collection of odds and ends that have been collecting by the garage door. I even weeded around the door and low and behold I found a tree rose. Well not really, but after I pulled out the mint and violets it could be seen a lot better.

I also opened up some old gallon paint cans and put the dried paint in the garbage and the empty cans in the recycling. They had been setting by the garage doors for about two years. I originally set them there so that the paint could dry up and I could take the chunks out and recycled the cans. Some how I never found the time to finish the project until now.

I even swept the cement around the door so that one can actually see the cement instead of the fir pollen pods and leaves. I did not know what time it was, but when I went into the house it was 1730, so I had been working outside since about 1330. I guess that is why I am just a little worn out.

Kathleen has another Fellowship Ministry team meeting tonight so she made some Au Gratin potatoes and a couple of the left over hamburgers from last night. I just finished putting the dishes in the dishwasher and am soaking the pots and pans so that I can get most of the baked on potatoes off before I put them in the dishwasher.

I think that is all I am going to attempt to do for today, so good night is in order.

Taxi!

I slept in until about 0730 this morning, I woke up about 0200 and it took me quite a while to get back to sleep. About 0915 Kathleen came down stairs and was dressed, when I mentioned something about it she told me that we had to pick up Toni and then go to the airport to pick up our niece Charié. Charié was coming into Portland to take a bus to Seaside where she is going to spent a few days getting some R & R.

We picked her up and got to spend a little time visiting with her. Andrea came over as well as the girls were all going out to eat. Kathleen had her physical therapy appointment today so we had to leave shortly after the girls took off.

While we were picking up a prescription for Kathleen at Fred Meyer, Toni called and asked if we could take her to the doctor's office for a 1615 appointment. Well it was about 1520 when she called.

We picked up Toni and Charié and headed to Clackamas Kaiser for Toni's appointment. It only took about a half an hour and then we headed to downtown to the train/bus depot. We made pretty good time considering what time of the day it was. We dropped Charié and Toni off at the station and then headed for home once again; I took back roads, as they are usually quicker during rush hours.

We made it back home about 1715 and we are both tired. Hence, I am writing this early, before I fall asleep. I did not get a thing done today except run from one place to another. So good night and I hope that I sleep better tonight.

A tiring Monday

I did not get up until about 0745 this morning, I guess that I was still on my Sabbath rest. I made up for it a little bit today. I did a load of towels, washed, dried, folded and put away. Then I vacuumed the downstairs and did a lot of the hand washing dishes. Kathleen got up this morning and when she came downstairs she was dressed, something that she had not done all weekend.

I put the solar house number sign that I bought several years ago in the ground and put the sign on it. I bought it and set it aside to do when I had time and it was buried and I ran across it the other day.

About noon we went to Home Depot to pick up some more of the teak oil so that I could finish the planting bench. I went outside just as soon as we got home and I changed my clothes and started to apply the oil to the bench.

It only took about forty-five minutes to finish the bench. When I got in the house Kathleen was talking to Alyssa, she was going to come over with the children. The other day when I talked with Alyssa she wanted to get some raspberries and irises. So I went back out and started to dig up some raspberries for her. I cleaned out an area that was becoming overgrown and in the same area where I cleaned out under the apple tree.

I also dug out a couple dozen irises in a part of the rose garden that I am trying to clean out and open up a little.

When I went inside and cleaned up Andrea was there having her lunch on her way to work. She had been there a while and just stayed for a while after Alyssa arrived.

Hayden played with one of the toy Wranglers that I have for the grandchildren to play with while Zander played with the battery operated train. He spent a while assembling the track, but he finally did and then Hayden wanted to play with the train as well.

Natalie went upstairs with Kathleen to see how her pillow was progressing. Kathleen is embroidering a little pillow for her for her new room.

Alyssa left with the children about 1730, and we heated up the leftover chicken and rice from last night for dinner tonight.

My eyes are really irritated, I think from all the digging in the soil. I feel tired, but I think it is mostly from me not being able to keep my eyes open as they are really watering.

Well, I think that is it for tonight, so I will just wish you all a good night.

A Sabbath Rest

Well, today is the day of Sabbath rest and I mostly rested. I got up and got ready for church this morning and a little after 0800 I went upstairs to see if Kathleen was planning to go this morning. She was just waking up and said that she wanted to go, but I could tell from what happened last week that she would not make it and I would not either. So I just said that she was about an hour from being ready to go and that I was going now and she should just stay in bed and rest.

Yesterday she never did get dressed and when I got back from church and Sunday School, she still was in her nightclothes. She came down stairs about noon and still was not dressed. She got herself some puffed rice and wheat and had a raspberry and cream cheese croissant. Since it looked like she was not going to have any lunch any time soon I made myself a limburger cheese and onion sandwich.

I gathered up the laundry and did two loads, one dark and one light. After I finished reading the paper I went outside and oiled the bottom and back of the planting bench. By this time, the first load was ready to come out of the dryer and fold. So I put the second load in the dryer and folded the first load.

Kathleen came back down stairs and was dressed, so I asked her what we were going to do for dinner and she suggested rice and chicken. It sounded good to me, so Kathleen got the chicken tenders out of the freezer and cooked some rice.

After dinner Kathleen wanted to go for a walk around the block, she did not need to ask me twice. She was really tired afterwards and her glucose level was only about 74, so she took a glucose tablet and that helped bring it back up to 130.

As you can tell, I did pretty well keeping the Sabbath rest. Oh, I almost forgot, last night after I sent off my post I cleaned out the bathtub downstairs. It had been stained for years and nothing I had tried before worked, but we recently tried Kaboom for the toilet and it worked really well, and so we bought another Kaboom product, “Ultra Scrub”, that was almost like a liquid cleanser.

I worked on it for about fifteen minutes and got most of it cleaned up. I was pretty tired from working outside most of the day so I did not do anymore. I think in the next day or so I will probably try it again. It will be nice to have a bathtub that does not look really dirty all the time.

Well, I think that is all for tonight, nothing else to do but say, good night!

Saturday and I am ready for a day of rest

After breakfast, I looked for and found my tin snips so that I could put a patch on the roof. I found them and then got the old wooden ladder out and set it up on the side of the house. Then I got the piece of aluminum and cut it up to fit on the roof. Now I just have to wait until it rains to see if the patch works. If it does, I will have to make it a permanent patch, right now it is just in there temporarily.

After that, I picked up the walnuts and then mowed the lawn. I was pretty worn out so I took a break and got a 32 ounce jug of ice water and went and sat out on the front porch for a while.

While sitting there I noticed that the hedge really needed to be trimmed. So I got out my hedge sheers and started whacking away at it. I had been using the electric hedge trimmers lately and this time I decided to use the manual ones as they really do a better job, although they are much more labor intensive.

Somewhere between mowing the lawn and trimming the hedge both my hip and shoulders were really bothering me. I am not sure about the hip, but the shoulder I am pretty sure is bursitis, (I think I need to take some more Advil.) So I finished picking up the clippings and put them in the recycling bin.

I sat on the front porch some more and drank more water. After a while, I noticed that I was getting a little hungry so I went inside, made myself a grill cheese sandwich, and had a few chips.

Knowing that I needed to clean up and sand down the planting bench I decided to do that. I hosed off most of the crud and than took a nylon 3M pad and got the finish to the point where I could oil it. I will have to wait until tomorrow or Monday so that it will completey dry out.

Not wanting to go inside yet I decided to straighten up the junk pile under the apple tree. I through out a bunch of old plastic flower pots and several plant trays. It does not look great yet, but it is much better than it was before. I also threw away some of the junk that had been collecting by the outside garage door.

I was pretty filthy so I got the hose out to dust myself off before going into the house. While doing that I decided to clean out the bird bath and refill it. I went inside and got another 32 ounces of water. I sat down for a while, drank the water, and then checked with Kathleen to see what she wanted to do for dinner. We had some black beans and I cut up a couple chicken and cheese sausages to go with it. It was not bad, and there is a little left over for a snack tomorrow.

Well, that is just about it for today, I am tired, but I fell that I got quite a lot done. Now it is time to say good night!

Friday?

I made myself some blueberry waffles and Morningstar sausages this morning for breakfast. It must have smelt pretty good as Kathleen came down while I was eating and said that she smelled blueberries, so she had some waffles as well. She is more into regular sausages than soy ones so she cooked up some of those for herself.

I chopped out some of the ivy vine roots, some of them were two inches in diameter, healthy ivy. I also cleaned off my planting bench so that I could oil it before the rain sets in.

Between both these activities, I got pretty dirty so I went inside to clean up as Kathleen had a physical therapy appointment today at 1300. I did not have time to eat lunch so I grabbed a Cliff bar and off we went.

Kathleen did well with her physical therapy and even did her stretching with out tears!! She finished up a little after 1500; it seems that her hour and a half appointments are becoming more and more like two-hour appointments.

We headed out to G I Joe's to return something that Kathleen bought earlier in the month. While I did that Kathleen went to Oregon Craft Warehouse. I joined her there, waited around for about twenty minutes, and then finally told Kathleen that I would wait outside for her. I waited out there fore another half hour until she finished.

We were going to go to Wal-Mart as well to pick up some pills for Kathleen. Since it was already almost 1700, I decided to skip Wal-Mart for today, as I was not only tired but also hungry. That Cliff bar did not quite do it for me.

So I guess that is about it for tonight. Have a great weekend and good night!

Another somewhat productive day

I had breakfast and then decided to finish the dishes from last night; Kathleen still was not up so I read the paper. She had gotten a couple phone calls that she needed to return so I woke her up a little after 0900. We had a couple frying pans on the stove and a couple other hand wash things so I washed them.

Kathleen did not feel like going anywhere today so I went outside, did some edging, and pulled out some more of the violets from one of the back gardens.

It was starting to get warm in the sun so I went inside and vacuumed the downstairs. By this time, I was starting to get hungry so I made myself some lunch. Kathleen was upstairs talking on the phone, so when I finished eating I went out to the front yard and did some edging to the garden in front oft the house. I also decided that I needed to rake the leaves from the front lawn, so I got the rake and started raking.

While I was doing that, I talked to one of the guys that was doing some work next door. They were taking the aluminum siding that they had taken off to the recyclers. I asked them if they wanted some steel and he said sure, so I got rid of the old barbeque and the frame for the futon that we had bought for Toni several years ago, but had gotten bent and was not good enough to keep for using.

So I was able to get rid of a couple of items that I was not sure how I was going to get rid of. After I got that all hauled over there I put some fertilizer on the blueberries and strawberries earlier in the day so I watered that in.

About that time, I was starting to get hungry so I suggested to Kathleen that we use some of the left over mashed potatoes, the cube steak that we bought the other day and the green beans that Kathleen and Andrea bought at Rossi farm last week.

We still had about half the mashed potatoes left over and a little bit of the green beans, so I will probable make that for lunch one of these days.

After dinner I put all the left overs in containers and put them in the fridge. I also loaded up the dishwasher and started it. There were several hand wash items so I washed them as well. So now, the kitchen is semi-clean and I am ready to go to sleep.

Kathleen has still been really emotional again today, she does not know why and neither do I. She had a meeting tonight so I have been able to just take it easy and rest up. So I guess that I will just say good night.

It has felt like Friday today!

I guess that one of the problems with not working or going to school, is that one tends to loose track of what day of the week it is...not that it really matters much anymore. I just have to remember where I need to take Kathleen that day when I wake up.

Today it was a new place to try to get a device to straighten out her elbow. It was mostly filling out forms, an interview and taking some measurements. We got home about noon, Kathleen finished her breakfast, and I made myself something to eat for lunch.

I was hoping to go to Costco right after that, but Kathleen needed to rest for a bit. I dinked around for as long as I could and then finally changed my clothes and got the ladder out so that I could clean the fir needles off the valleys in the roof.

We got Leaf Guard gutters last winter that make it so that I do not have to clean out the gutters eight or ten times a year, but I still need to get the needles out of the valleys. I guess that is one of the problems with living under several huge fir trees. Oh well, they do provide some really nice shade in the summer time, but the rest of the year they are really a pain.

It seem like they are always dropping something, whether it be pollen pods, needles, fir cones or sometimes-huge breaches.

We finally got off to Costco about 1500; Kathleen needed to take back a couple photo albums she bought the last time we were there. I guess some of the pages were not up to par. I needed to get some vitamins and Kathleen found a couple other things that she wanted. We also stopped at the new Costco gas station and got gas, it seems to be a little cheaper than the other gas stations...and I am all for saving money.

Well, I am writing this early tonight as I am meeting with the accountability guys and I probably will not feel much like writing when I get home. I cannot think of anything else exciting to write home about so I guess I will just say, good night.

A Full Day!

Today was a busy day! Kathleen had her doctor's appointment at 1045 and the break looks like it is still progressing as expected. He did suggest that she get some kind of elbow extender, something that will help force the arm to straighten out. From what I understand, it is adjustable so that the wearer can make minor adjustments to finally get the arm straight. He thought that the physical therapy office could do it.

Well, when we got to the physical therapy office they told us that they do not do that. Kathleen's physical therapist did some checking and found a place just down the hallway that did it. Her physical therapy went pretty well today, but she is still pretty emotionally drained and the tears come at the drop of a hat.

Anyway, she finished physical therapy a little after 1500, so we walked down the hall to see about the device that the doctor recommended. They had to order one so we need to go back at 1000 tomorrow.

So off to Winco to do some grocery shopping, we had not really gone grocery shopping in about ten days, so it took about an hour and a half. By the time we got home and got things put away, it was 1730. Kathleen was crashing and took about an hour and a half nap on the couch.

I was getting hungry so I fixed a couple of cans of chili and woke Kathleen up. It is a good thing that we had called Alyssa earlier and said that we would not be going to her place tonight. I was pretty worn out myself, it was not from doing anything, but from just sitting around waiting for Kathleen's Doctor's appointment, physical therapy appointment, the other place and then grocery shopping.

So I guess that I am about ready to call it a day and good night!

Nice Day!

I did not plan it, but I got several things done that I have been meaning to do for a long time. Andrea picked up Kathleen about 1000 to so that Kathleen could go with her to her doctor's appointment. Then they went out to lunch and then to Fabric Depot/Montivilla Sewing to see the Phaff trailer. They did not get back until about 1530 so that gave me a good part of the day to get things done.

First, I emptied out the compost barrel and put in into the compost bin. Then I took out the compost and started a new mix. I went back into the house, vacuumed the downstairs, and cleaned up the kitchen.

I decided that if I did not oil the other chair this week I probably would not get it done this year. So I went outside and did the bottom of the chair. I went back inside and made myself lunch. By now, the chair had dried enough to turn it over and do the top side.

I also raked the front lawn and gathered all the inside trash containers and filled up the garbage can. I also gathered up the recycling and put it into the proper containers.

It may not seem like a lot, but I got several things done that I needed to do. I do not feel too tired right now, which is a good thing. I just have to learn to pace myself and not take some breaks between doing things.

Well tomorrow Kathleen has a doctor's appointment at 1045 tomorrow morning and a physical therapy appointment at 1300, so tomorrow should be a very interesting day.

Today the bottom fell out!

I awoke about 0300 this morning and never really got fully back to sleep. I think I must have dozed off a little but every time I looked at the clock it was only thirty minutes since the last time I looked, so if I did sleep it was in really short catnaps.

I finally got up about 0645 and went downstairs to take my morning shower that must have awakened me just a little. I got dressed, made myself some raisin/nut toast, and had a glass of juice.

About 0800, I went upstairs to see if Kathleen was planning on going to church. She said that she wanted to; she even got dressed. She came downstairs about 0830 and while standing in the kitchen she said that she just could not do it. Well, I had been sitting long enough that I decided that I did not really have the energy to go myself. It was about fifteen minutes past the start of church and by the time I would have gotten there the service would have been about half over.

I am glad that I did not go this morning, as by 1500 I could not stay awake any longer, so I went to bed and slept for a couple hours. I feel a little better, but I still need a good nights sleep. I think it will be an early lights out tonight. That is one reason that I am writing this early today.

I did manage to water the houseplants and change the water in the beta's globe, but I really did not get much of anything else done today.

Well, I have a load of laundry in the washer and another one in the dryer that is just about ready to take out and fold so I think that I will just say good night now and if anything really exciting happens between now and when I finally crash for the night I will add another post.

Question for Aunt Sue

Sue

"After dinner, we went out for gelato. Mom had peach, I had amaretto, Jeff had tiramisu, Jen had peanut butter fudge, Jeremy and Bill had pumkin pie. The cones are homemade, so it is a delicious dessert. (Not quite as good as Katarina's Tartufo, though)!!!"

Did you ever find these (Katarina's Tartufo) anywhere besides that Italian restaurant we went to? Those were amazing. Probably the best dessert I've ever had! I looked on-line but only found a restaurant listed as Katarina's Tartufo. Hmmm...

Very interesting about the wheel chair. I worked in a pharmacy for 6 years and we had to deal with a lot of people with disabilities. Some more awkward than others...like, how do you give change to someone with only 3 fingers? Sounds like Jennifer is doing great in school.

Hugs to all,
Alyssa

I think I accomplished quite a lot today!

I woke up to a really nice day, so I got up and made breakfast and then emptied the dishwasher. After reading the paper, I put the towels in the dryer that I just washed.

I did not want to waste such a nice dry day, so I went outside and pulled more of the ivy off the fir trees. I now have it all the fir trees free of ivy at least up to about seven feet. I did not feel ambitious enough to get the ladder and pull the rest of it off...maybe another day.

Since it was so nice I decided to pull out the violets out of the strawberry and blueberry garden, I got about 75% of it finished, when I decided that I was getting hungry and went inside to make myself something for lunch. I did not realize it but I had been working outside from 0900 until 1345. So I cleaned up and made myself a chicken sandwich from the left over chicken from the other night.

I went to get the towels out of the dryer that I had put in there before going outside, but the dryer was empty. Kathleen had emptied it and folded them, so I just put them away.

We were going to Aaron and Tami's house about 1630 to celebrate Tami's birthday, so I decided that I would just stay inside and rest up. I had not realized that I was as tired as I was until I stopped working.

We had a really nice time with Aaron and Tami, Alyssa was there with her children; Toni and Chucky were there as well. Andrea was working so she and John were not there and Dan came later so just about the whole family was there.

The grandchildren play so well together...most of the time and they really had a good time tonight. They are all getting so big it is hard to believe...where has the time gone?

Kathleen was feeling pretty good for most of the day, but tonight, just before we left, she started to feel bad again. She is now dozing on the couch. We were planning on going to Alyssa and Dan's tomorrow after church, but the way she is feeling now, I am not sure if she will be up for it. We will just have to play it by ear I guess.

Well, I think that is all for tonight, so I will just say good night.

Mix emotions today

This morning I had breakfast with my accountability group so from a little after 0800 until about 1045 I was out of the house and felt pretty good. I got there a little early so I walked for fifteen minutes or so and it felt good.

Kathleen had her physical therapy appointment at 1300 today so while she was getting dressed I made myself something to eat before we left. She was very emotional today, crying for no apparent reason and not able to control it. She also was not feeling well, her stomach hurt and so did her head. The arm almost always hurts, so I do not even count that.

When we got to physical therapy she started to cry, and they asked her if she just wanted to forget therapy today and go home. She needed to have her range of motion checked today so they had to do that so that they could send it to the doctor for her appointment Tuesday.

I suggested that perhaps the therapy might be beneficial to her and that since she had to do the most unpleasant part anyway she might as well do the exercising. She did and while she did not feel better, she did not feel any worse.

Kathleen asked if we could stop at Target and get a mango smoothie, since we had not done that in a while I decided to stop there, besides we needed to stop at Safeway and get some of her special coffee and they were in the same strip mall.

Fewer and fewer places are carrying the coffee that she likes so we have to keep on finding new places. Last week I checked on line to find out who was still carrying it and it looks like Safeway and Albertson are the only two close by that are carrying it now.

Well we finally made it home about 1645. I had planned to mow the front lawn today, but I was really tired. After I changed my clothes and sat for fifteen minutes or so I decided, I better get up and get outside as no one else was going to mow it for me.

I even parked the Wrangler in the driveway this morning when I got back from breakfast, so I did not have that as an excuse for not mowing it.

I even mowed it twice, once to rake the leaves and then I dropped the height and mowed it again to cut the grass.

After cleaning up and sitting for another half hour, I decided to make dinner. I made ravioli, and corn on the cob. It only took about fifteen minutes total...about five minutes quicker than Alyssa's Blackened Tilapia Sautéed Zucchini and Onions Dot Noodles, which took her 20 minutes. It probably was not as taste though.

After dinner, I cleaned up the kitchen, did the hand wash dishes, finished loading up the dishwasher, and turned it on.

Well, that was my day, I am tired now and I think that I will head for bed...good night!

Things are greening up again!

After I got up this morning, I went out with Reggie and I noticed that the grass was starting to green up once again. I made waffles for breakfast and then went and read the paper.

After a while I went out to the garage and gathered up the things that I had set aside for Goodwill and loaded them into the SUV. The mail came in the mean time so I read that and took care of a couple medical insurance issues. Then I went and dropped the things off at Goodwill.

That is four trips to Goodwill in about a week, at this rate I will eventually get the garage cleaned out and maybe I will be able to park a vehicle or two in it. Who knows, I may even be able to work out there and not have to move half of the garage to do it.

When I got back from Goodwill I cooked up a couple sausages for lunch and than I went out and mowed the back yard. The grass has not started to grow yet, but the weather is cool enough now that I felt that I could lower the height down and not worry about the grass being too short.

I was going to mow the front yard, but I did not feel like moving the Wrangler...maybe tomorrow. I put the mower away and thought that I would move a few things around so that it would be easier to move around in the garage. If I can get enough space cleared out I will be able to install the pulley system so that I can hang the hard top in the summers when I have the soft top on the Jeep.

When I finished and went into the house, Kathleen had started making dinner. She wanted mashed potatoes so I mashed them for her. Kathleen had cooked up some chicken and onions, so we had a very nice dinner.

Kathleen seemed to be better today; her emotions were not running the full spectrum as they had been for the last couple of weeks. Maybe the medications are doing their jobs...I can only hope.

Well, I think that is about it for tonight, good night!

Looked like rain all day

I slept in again today. After getting up, I made breakfast and read the paper and mail when it got here. Kathleen was still sleeping so I went out to the garage and loaded up the SUV with some more things for Goodwill.

I checked upstairs and Kathleen was still sound asleep so I left her a note telling her that I was dropping that stuff off at Goodwill and then took off. I got back home about 1230 and Kathleen had just gotten up.

I made myself some lunch out of some of the leftover steak from last nights dinner. After eating, I paid a couple of bills online, then went out to the garage again, and sorted out some more things to take to Goodwill. I think I have enough for another load.

I cleaned up for dinner, chili and corn on the cob. We ate early tonight as we had a church business meeting at 1900. The meeting got over about 2030, but by the time I helped clean up and we left it was after 2100.

So I checked my e-mail and looked to see if there were any new blog entries and Alyssa had one so I paged through it and then decided I had better get started on my own.

That is pretty much how my day went, and now it is time for bed. So good night and have a great day!

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Physical Therapy Day!

I had taken some nightguil last night as I felt my sinuses starting to close up on me before going to bed last night, so I slept until about 0730 this morning.

I did not get much done this morning except make breakfast, read the paper and the mail. I helped get Kathleen ready for her appointment and drove her there. Once she was checked in, I went up to her doctor’s office to pick up a couple prescriptions for her.

She seemed to do well at therapy, so afterwards she wanted to go to Jo~Ann Fabrics to use some of her coupons. So we looked around for some wool batting and some handles for a purse she wants to make.

After what seemed like a couple of hours she started to get hungry so we checked out and headed to Fred Meyer to get her prescriptions filled and pick up a couple of steaks for dinner.

I broiled the steaks, mine only about half as long as Kathleen’s and scrubbed a few potatoes to microwave. The steaks were really good.

Kathleen is now taking a muscle relaxed as well as her pain medication, so after dinner she dozed on and off for most of the night. She also is complaining about the pain, so the next day or two will be more of the same.

Well, I have run out of things to say and I am getting too tired to think of anything else, so I guess it is time to say good night.

Back online!

Wow...it's almost been a whole week since I have been online, blogging or anything of the sort. What did I miss? It'a amazing what one can accomplish without a computer in the house. I am caught up on laundry, the kids' rooms are clean, the kitchen is mostly clean, living room, family room and entry clean...bathrooms...not clean...yet! I even did some scrapbooking. We just got our computers back tonight and thought I would stop by and say hello. I think I will wait until tomorrow to add to my blog.

Goodnight,

Alyssa

Rain and than Sunshine!

I must have been really tired yesterday, I slept about 10 hours. It started raining about 0230 this morning and rained on and off until around noon. The rain made the room darker than usual and it felt earlier than it really was.

I got up about 0730 and made myself some cereal, juice and coffee. After reading the paper and the mail I decided that I needed to go out to the garage and try to sort out some of my auto stuff, like was, polish window cleaners and the like.

So I put together a shelf and started to pull the piles apart. I found many things that I had forgotten that I had. After sorting out the garden stuff from the automotive stuff, I started to put the automotive stuff on the shelf and sorted them out by type of product.

I was able to combine many of the same things and filled up a recycling tub with the empty plastic containers. Some of the stuff I just dumped because either it had dried up or there was not enough left to worry about.

I even found some things that I had gotten for my old sports car, which I could no longer use. Finally, about 1600 I decided to wrap things up. I had not eaten lunch and was starting to get hungry. I also was starting to get tired, so it brought things back into the garage and decided to finish it another day.

I washed a garbage can that I had filled up with dirty rags that I use for washing and waxing the vehicles. By the time, they finished drying I was really ready to stop for the day.

Kathleen heated up a couple of potpies for dinner and after dinner; I fell asleep in the chair in the living room. I think I was reading a magazine, which did not help.

I just got up and decided that I had better write this or I might not get it done tonight. That said I think that I will say good night.