A Wet Wednesday

I woke up at 5:30 AM (the usual time) and was annoyed! It’s my day off and I should have slept in. It’s cold outside again (29 degrees F.) and I’m a little chilled. I also have a very stuffy nose. I need to get the humidifier down from the attic. When the furnace runs a lot, I get all plugged up.

Another thing that’s annoying (apparently it’s gonna be an annoying day) is that I have an overwhelming desire for blueberry pancakes. But, I have no blueberries (either fresh or frozen) in the house.

At first, I thought of going to Meijer’s and buying some blueberries (about two miles from my house). Then I thought, what the hell, why not just drive the extra 1/4 mile and go to IHOP and just buy some pancakes?

Then I decided it was just an odd craving, so I cut a grapefruit in half, cut up the sections and ate both halves (heavily salted) for breakfast. But, I did put frozen blueberries on the grocery list.

Then I putzed around for a while, cleaning up the mess from the beef stew. I loaded up the dishwasher and ran everything in there except the Dutch oven, a wooden spoon and my Shun knife in it (those need to be hand-washed, but I just let them soak for a bit). I took out a four-cup container of the broccoli-cheese soup to thaw.

I watched the news at noon and then decided to take a nap. Now, naps at my house are sacred and not to be interrupted by the alarm clock! So, I never set it at nap-time (which is why I missed the wedding ceremony last Saturday). So, I woke up at 3:00 PM!

My big project today was to blow all of the leaves (and I got a ton of them) off the driveway, the front gardens, and both back patios. Then I was gonna cut the grass and mulch the leaves. There are probably less than 1/3 leaves left on all my maples.

So, I got the front done and then gassed up the push-mower. I pushed it outside and fired it up. At that exact moment, it started to rain! So, I turned it off and pushed it back inside. I sat on the couch with a book and watched it rain (hoping it would just be a brief shower). But, when I saw puddles starting to form on the driveway and the road, I knew that cutting the grass today was no longer and option...

My daughter Melissa called around 5:30 PM and we talked for a while. After we hung up, I warmed up the broccoli and cheese soup and ate that for my lunch/dinner. I had finished that book and watched TV instead.

I fell asleep around 10:00 PM and then woke up at 3:30 AM. I shut everything down, checked the front and back doors and verified the garage door was down and then to bed for real.