a productive day!

i am going to write down what i did today, because i accomplished a lot, and that doesn't often happen for me.



i got up at a reasonable hour, having not gone to bed until 3 a.m. i stayed up late to finish reading CORSAIR by clive cussler. last night was the henrico-atlee baseball game, which was horrifying to watch in its frustration. however, austin managed to hit his first walk off homerun, and won the game for them, 9-8. someone threw the ball back and austin did get it. it was the first time he had had a walk off home run. based upon the coaching and the playing, we did NOT deserve to win, that is for sure. i have come to the conclusion that i don't enjoy watching high school baseball anymore. it is more frustrating than pleasurable. last night austin was supposed to pitch. instead, they kept the pitcher in the whole game, even though he was horrible, hit 5 kids and walked 6 and was getting smacked around. plus the coach managed to get himself ejected from the game, and he didn't go easily and generally made an ass of himself.



i went to facebook this morning and mj and gregg were one, so we talked about silly stuff from high school for probably over and hour. too bad we couldn't get a 3 way conversation going, but i don't think you can do that with IM.



after i finished on facebook, i called in my BP refill and headed out to the shed to see if ron had fixed the lawn tractor. he had. so i mowed the yard. i tried to weed wack, but the batteries weren't holding a charge. i took the time to empty the cat pans and wash them out and i filled the fountain pond at the same time. i went along the front walk and scraped up the mulch and dirt that had grown across the concrete. i couldn't get the push mower started, so some of the stuff didn't happen. i did finish most of the weed wacking and then i went to get my drugs at cvs and then to the new lowes. i had not been in there before, and it is pretty big and has a lot more stuff than home depot it seems, but it is more expensive there. i bought some marked down pansies, and some brick pavers to line the walk. the mulch gets over the bricks and on the concrete, so i am thinking i will put these down to keep the bed in place. if that doesn't look right, i will put them along the edge of the front bed near the street.



after i ate the taco bell that i got and talked to uncle jack on the phone, i watched a couple of CSI MIAMI episodes that i had taped, and then i went back outside to work. i also bought a headset to put on when you are mowing the lawn, and it has an ipod hookup, so i put on my garden gloves, got out the weed killer and then did the entire yard, including down around the willow tree, the street and the driveway. amy next door helped me move the nordic track into the SF room. i sat on the steps after i finished with the weed spraying and glued back the pink swan ceramic planter that used to be doris', but got broken. i sat in the rocking chair, watched spiders spin and some bats and birds fly around and listened to the ipod while i rocked, sort of a soundtrack to sunset! the partridges came by and showed me the frog and the turtle in the pond in front. the only things i didn't get to today were running the carpet cleaner in the front room and weeding the back two above ground garden beds. i filled the bird feeders and thought about going up to pam's to work on the upside down tomato planters, but it was a fleeting thought. i cooked asparagus for lunch and one of the cats nabbed one. what a weird thing for cats to eat!



i need to take a bath and go to bed. i am not hurting all that bad and i have had a lot more energy today than i have had in awhile. my back is still tender, but i am trying to make sure i don't push things too much. tomorrow austin and i are going to the beach to visit the 'rents.