GOT IT ALL DONE IN ONE DAY!!!

I crawled on the mower at 8:30 A.M. yesterday.  Seemed warm outside, so I wore a T-shirt, with a sweat shirt over that, and a light jacket, a ball cap to shade my eyes, sunglasses, and my big radio earphones.....also muffles out mower noise.  (Gotta have my talk radio to listen to)   I'd only been out a little while, when I decided it was too COLD!!  The wind was blowing down my neck and up my sleeves.  Came in and put two turtle neck dickeys on.  Still chilly, but not unbearable, and at least it wasn't blowin' down my neck any more. 

I'd been mowing about three hours, cussin' all the junk I had to either move or mow around, (well, I wasn't cussin' out loud....does that still count?) when I looked back across the pond and cousin Larry had come, and was over there moving sheets of tin off a shed door.  A storm had ruined it quite some time ago, but Dale and Alan had just finally gotten around to repairing it lately.  They'd piled it on the ground, and I couldn't get around it to mow.  Larry stacked it all on a rack.  Then there was a water wagon, a canoe, some kind of hitch with two wheels on it,  some old lumber and a ladder that came off one of the old trucks he'd hauled to the salvage yard, some tree limbs I'd moved and piled up last week, (this week the grass had grown up thru them again)  just this 'n that was stuck wherever it landed.  Anyway, he moved everything so I could trim up pretty good this time.  Crawled off the mower about 8 1/2 hours later.

While he was here, he asked if I wanted to go eat with him and Cindy last night.  I told him yes.   Good thing I said "Yes" when he asked me, because if I'd waited to decide till after I got off the mower, I SURE would have said "No."  I could hardly walk to the house, and drag myself through the bath tub, I was so tired.   Anyway, we went to the O.B.R. where I took WendyBird when she came to visit.  BBQ'd spare ribs, baked potato, green beans and salad,  last night.  Couldn't eat it all.  Brought home enough ribs for another meal.

So far today, I've only had my coffee, wrote some checks to pay bills, and have begun to make a list of chores to do outside.  The young daughter of one of the O.B.R. waitresses, will come tomorrow to help, if it doesn't rain.   Need to put the trellis back up, that blew down last winter, rake off old mulch, apply lime, re-mulch, to my clematis, then I think we'll go down around the pond and tidy up.  Need to pick up some limbs that fell off during the winter under the hedge-row.  BUT the weatherman is calling for rain, so we'll see.

Seems I have a one-track-mind this morning.  Nothing earth-shaking to talk about.  Catch you later.     Granny