5:30 a.m. Thursday, May 24

The phone rang a hour ago, it was the wrong number, so I went back to bed, but after tossing and turning for a hour, decided to get up and do something worthwhile that was nice and quiet so Donna could keep on sleeping.

So, where do we start today, well a good black hot cup of coffee is where we start. hmmmm it tastes so good first thing in the morning. Gets my blood moving about, quickens my brains thinking power ( I think) and energizes me for the day. Which makes me think of yesterday.

There has been this 4 x 8 foot area near our back porch that sits just beneath the kitchen nooks baking area. For years I had a grey piece of siding material laying there, and we would put potted flowers on it. Finally the weeds started coming through the holes in the siding, and it was rotting away. Sometime last week, I bought 7 x 9 paver stones, and early this week, took up that rotting mess and quite a bit of dirt.

My pickup had some alum scrapping in it, so took it to the recylcle place, and on the way home stopped for a scoop of sand. Man, a half scoop didn't look like enough, so I got a full scoop, and now I sand coming out of my ears. I do have some low spots in the lawn, so think I'll utilize what extra I have.

Discovered the old 4 x 4's that formed the border around the siding material was rotted away, so need some new material. A new 2 x 4 for the back side, and some used 4 x 4's but new looking took care of the sides, and after putting down some material that is supposed to keep out weeds, I applied the sand and leveled it all out. Started laying those heavy little jewels, used my radial arm saw and a old carbide blade to cut some in half, so I would have a staggered pattern, and by days end, it was done.

And, by that time, around 4:30, I was done also. A nice hot shower and clean clothes and I was ready for supper and then choir practice last night. So, that brings me up to this new day that God has allowed me to live. The lawn needs mowing, (its supposed to be 75 today) so I think its going to be the first project. Then spread the sand over the low spots. Transplant some new gooseberry plants. The old bush is really loaded with berries this year, see the picture at the top of this blog.

While I was waiting for the picture to down load I started cleaning up the mess around my desk, ugh! that is a full time job, anyone want to come and volunteer to help me on the job?

Actually, its very hard to decide whether to keep or throw away this precious material. For example is a list of Irish books I made up, have you read The Templars, The course of Irish history, The First Crusade, The Fourth Crusade, Ireland a Concise History, etc, etc, well the list just made it to the recycle bin.

I'll have to admit I am sort of a packrat saver, I see here a 1967 United Buckingham tax statement for 1967, a 1993 Legacy Laboratory statement for a phlebotomy specimen fee , guess that was to check my P.S.A which is at 1.6 right now, for according to another antique document that I keep, see that back in 1993 it was up around 5.4 and I was being carefully screened, and had a biopsy (that word is misspelled, but can't find it in my 1966 Webster dictionary)

Am going to close this blog, and print out the last couple of blogs to see what I've already said, so, Cheerio