Notes - words, words, words

        Breakfast and the paper. Today is for more yard work such as tearing out the ivy killed a couple of weeks ago and preparing the last tree ground area with new soil, filling various ‘holes’ in the yard with dirt packed tight for the machinery to aerate and slice new seed into the ground in the middle of the week.

         It is to be a cool sunny day perfect, so to speak, for such work. Time to check the email, get dress and go to work.

         Mid-afternoon. You had a late lunch at Smashburgers and have stopped for bananas at Kroger’s on Tylersville. Earlier you and Carol did yard work and you got everything done but the last tree stump. The ground is turned but you didn’t haul the dirt away yet; however you did dig out and build a wall with stones you had pulled from around the large tree earlier in the summer.

         1455 hours. Once we take the groceries back to the house we are off for some shade and reading time for Carol and writing for me. It is a beautiful day and one doesn’t have to work in the yard to take advantage of the weather. I’m glad the phase is editing because I don’t have any words in my head. If I’m thinking on something then for me it is not a waste; but nothing – I couldn’t stand.

         Thinking alone doesn’t constitute work, boy. – Amorella

         I suppose. I didn’t define thought. I am not sure I can either. Thought, as a concept, has an invisible logic and grammar in its base. Thinking is a state of being verb. – ‘I am thinking,’ is a statement, but if one tells someone that there is no proof, no evidence of thought. It has no discernable level to observe objectively without a brain scan of some sort. Even then, blood might be moving from point A to point B but I cannot image how one would measure a deeper thought from some imaginary setting as a focus.

         You are saying a deep thought takes more energy than conjuring up an imaginary setting? – Amorella

         I would think it would, but then thinking up a joke would probably take more work per minute than solving a legal problem. (1512)

         A comedian works harder at his task than a lawyer or a doctor, you think? - Amorella

         Later, you are in the shade facing west at the far north lot at Pine Hill Lakes Park. Carol is reading the latest Time magazine instead of her book (she brought two). You are ready to work rather than ‘think’ which is better. – Amorella

         Carol and the cats are heading upstairs. You are not in the mood for editing or writing. Let’s call it a night. – Amorella

         2137 hours. We had open-faced meat and cheese sandwiches and potato chips for supper, watched the news and last week’s “Silk”. Alas, it was the last one of the series. I might continue working on “Dead 3” but I will not finish tonight. I think I spent twenty minutes on the first paragraph, maybe longer.

         It is better though, boy. Post. - Amorella