I’m proud of myself, simply because I was so disciplined about my early morning. I rose at 4:30 and first enjoyed my morning toast and checking some news sites on the Internet, but then I got into action. I had my spa, dressed quickly and went out to water the gardens. By 8:00, I had very thoroughly watered all my beds, trees and shrubs.
And 9:00, we joined our friends to walk out dogs, and then we came home so that I could continue with raking and toting and enjoy a nice lunch in the sunshine followed by a short nap in the hammock in sunshine. I was waiting for the wind to dissipate before attempting the second coat of stain on the patches of the deck.
It was another stunningly sunny day. But it ain’t hot. It was 16° when we walked, and with the wind, it was chilly in the shade, but wonderfully warm in the sunshine. I’m giddy about the hammock. I’ve to rig up a swing rope for it, so I can sway in the sunshine. It’s a great new asset.
After my brief rest in the hammock, I went to work raking and toting. I cleaned up the driveway and the front yard while the wind blew hard, delivering more cones, caps and branches. It was too windy for staining the deck with a second coat. Instead, for a break from R&T, I investigated the cistern because it is not refilling quickly as it should.
I climb up onto it with the ladder. That’s easy. It’s getting off that’s hard. The edge of the cistern is rounded and so I started sliding off it as I tried to get onto the ladder. I had a couple of very scary seconds, but I was able to grab onto the shed roof and keep myself from sliding off and falling about 2.5 meters.
At 15:20, I was done. I was hot, sweaty and exhausted. I’d been in constant motion from 5:30 (12,000 steps), and the only rest I had was 15 minutes in the hammock and during several visits to the small room. Work a little, visit the small room, work some more, visit, work, visit. I somehow got the travellers’ curse, but eventually it ended.
There was one sad aspect to the day. When I was in the spa at 5:00, I heard a robin calling in distress. It was incessantly chirping. And then I saw why when I rose to get out of the tub. The big Barred owl that’s been hanging around flew overhead. I think it ate the robin’s baby or babies. What amazed me, was at 17:00 when I went out to check on the water level in the cistern, the poor bird was still constantly chirping. And scientists said for years that animals have no feelings!
When I quit working for the day at almost 15:30, I had a spa and then I fed the animals. After that, I had to clean up the kitchen a little so that I could comfortably make dinner. By the time I was on the chaise, I was ready to drop. It felt so, so good to have my feet up and pillows behind me.
And then came bedtime.
Today is, of course, bright and sunny and we still have wind. I just finished raking up all the detritus, and now there’s a tone more. Work never ends. But I don’t care, I’ve naught to do all day, so the work gives me purpose. I shall be raking and toting today, but at noon I am going to meet Dan and Steve for fish tacos at the food truck in Silva Bay.
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