Short Week

Why is it that short weeks always seem the longest?

It was freakin’ HOT on Tuesday. The official high was 92 degrees F., but it felt even higher (it was the humidity).

I knew I had a lot to do after work and I didn’t want to heat up the kitchen, so I stopped on the way home for lunch and bought a 12-inch “BMT” at Subway. I took half of it, warmed it in the microwave (just to melt the cheese a bit) and ate that for lunch.

I stopped at Kroger’s on the way home from work and bought some kitty litter and cat treats. When I got home, I changed into work clothes and then disconnected and removed the dead lawn tractor battery.

I went to O’Rielly’s Auto Parts and bought a new one, giving them the old one as my “core” (so I didn’t get charged extra). After some difficulty, I installed the new battery, filled up the gas tank, checked the oil and filled up the rear tire on the tractor.

I took off my long pants and switched to shorts, and then I walked the back yard, picking up branches and noting the worst wet sports. I had a long conversation with my neighbor, over the fence. It turns out that, during the worst of the “lake” out back, he had a trash pump going for three days, trying to get rid of the water. What amused me it that he pumped it into the old Farmer Jack parking lot!

Then I cut the grass with the lawn tractor. I had to stay about 20 feet away from the fences out back (due to standing water) and it sure didn’t look pretty (there are clumps of grass everywhere) but I got a lot of it knocked down.

Then I cut the front lawn (also with the tractor – I was on a roll). That looks just as bad, BTW. I finished up around 8:30 PM. It still hadn’t rained (we have had a Severe Thunderstorm Watch all evening in Southeast Michigan). I was damn tired, sweaty and dirty. But, I got ‘er done!

I took two bags of trash out to the road (I’ll switch out the kitty litter in the morning) and then buttoned the house up for the night.

Back inside, I washed my face and warmed up the other half of the sub for my dinner. It was late and I’d missed the start of most of the movies. So, I watched a little TV and then went to bed about 11:00 PM.