EXHAUSTED

This is gonna be a short post. I’m so tired that I can’t talk right — I sound like a drunk. My feet and back are killing me. I’ve had a lovely hot bath, and I am going to bed.

Up this morning and off to the kid’s baseball game. Other team had to forfeit, and five minutes after the referees called the game, the rest of the other team arrived. So we played a “practise” game. More about the lessons learned today in tomorrow’s post. I’m fading fast.

After lunch, went with my dad over to my house to clean up and lay the bathroom tile. First, I had to remove the wax rings from the two toilets, so that we can replace them and reinstall the toilets after the tile is laid. That was hard because the wax is thick and gooey, and it was very hard to get it out of the crevices. Finally, we used a heat gun to melt it, and then we wiped it away. Then I had to scrub the metal part of the toilet mount to remove all the rust. So my arms are tired.

Then I mowed the front and back yards, twice each. Because the grass was SO tall, I had to go across north to south, and then east to west, to make it look decent. And I had to pick up all sorts of stuff out of the yard before I could mow: shingles, scraps of molding, sticks, etc.

After mowing the yards, I cleaned up the utility shed. That was a nasty, messy job. Everything I picked up had huge ant-nests in it. Ugh. Roaches and other crawly things, too.

Then I used the loppers to trim some branches off of the oak tree in the front yard. By then, I was dragging. And now I am dead on my feet — what’s left of ’em. I’m going to bed.

Tags: Family Life, remodeling