My body decided that Thursday is the Day Off. I can do yard work etc on Saturday but on Thursday, after working Sunday thru Wednesday, I just can't. I am exhausted.
So today I slept until 8am. Read the paper with my bran flakes. Sat on the porch with Riley and got some sun on my legs. Everything else was covered up as I think I have reached the point where further sun would be a "very bad idea". Then I made a list (which I forgot to take with me) and G and I left to go "buy things".
We went to our local Goodwill. Three of the 7 items I bought are going back. G got a pair of jeans. Then our local discount store and I got Lee jeans. So comfy. And they fit. One pair came home with me (dark wash) and the light wash was ordered from another store to arrive next week. Relaxed fit with 1% spandex. I got a charcoal grey pair at Goodwill last winter and love, love, love wearing them. Duh!! That it took so long to find a store that sells them and buy more. And on sale. G got candy bars and new shoes to wear when walking the dog. He is wearing them now as he walks the dog. If I did that--well, It wouldn't be smart.
G also purchased seven new cereal bowls. He has three but has chipped them when putting them into the dishwasher. These are heavy duty restaurant bowls. Shallow so his cereal stays crisp. Seven because he won't have to run the dishwasher any more often than once a week to always have a bowl. This is the way men think. I would have bought 8. He also got more work gloves. He wears holes in them or loses one.
Then we went to Rite Aid to see if either of us could get the toothpaste we use. He did. I did not. I surrendered and purchased the Sensodyne with the green top. I like the one with the blue top. The clerk said if the blue topped ones were in one of the 15 crates of new stuff--she would call. I asked for 4. I am hopeful.
We finally called to see where our construction guy was. Seems we "failed to communicate". He was waiting for us. We were waiting for him. In the discussion of what we are doing, on Tuesday morning, while trying not to spend too much or over build---I agreed to a peak roofed porch with columns (like the ones on the front porch) and a granite slab floor. This is all to protect the $5000 French doors and the screen doors. I felt like a fool--but it's going to look nice. And it was mostly my idea as we have to work with the cement footing from the chimney. I also voiced my opinion on the new windows and the construction guy thought my solution was "perfect". So, that's done. But the front door. Not done. On hold. It wasn't going to look like I wanted so--we'll think about it later.
There is going to be "removal" on the roof. I didn't want to have to pay for that a second time in three years, but I will. It's almost like wasting a few thousand dollars and then spending that, and more, again. The little "porch" will solve the air flow problems. We didn't budge on the rafters. That can be something someone else (in the future) takes care of. Not us. And in 30 years, we certainly won't be living here. And in 30 years, who ever is living here will be putting on a new roof anyway.
Well, I have to go water the tomatoes in the Tomato Wagon. Saturday those babies are going into the garden along with the peppers. Corn is up. I think I am planting the zucchini in the old compost bins along with yellow crookneck squash as I was told they do "very" well in the compost bins. Perhaps a few cucumbers as well. Then I am calling it"done". Oh, I forgot about the green beans. On the trellis G built. It may stop raining anytime now. How is your garden doing?
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