Notes - being outside

         Evening. You and Carol shared a Papa John pizza for supper since you had little lunch (ham and cheese, no bread) and worked in the yard for several hours both mowing and gathering leaves you are both tired. You watched the national news and last night’s “Bones”. This morning you spent time searching for something to distract your Downy woodpecker. Eventually you found a ‘tape’ to make a streamer to distract said woodpecker. Scott is coming by to repair another hole and will also hang the streamer in hopes that the feathery rascal will move on to hammer. – Amorella

         1948 hours. Last night I worked on Brothers 8 and have 729 words but it needs more work for a (final) draft. Right now I don’t feel like working on it. We are both tired, in fact we were hungry and each had three pieces of pizza instead of our usual two (then save the other two each for tomorrow). It was a great day to work outside.

         The thick grass was six to seven inches high and you lowered the blade to two inches rather than three and used the grass catcher. You had six to eight bushels of ‘packed down’ grass clippings to dump in your ‘woods’ from the front yard alone. Carol helped with mowing and also raked the yard first in the morning. You did take breaks sitting in the chairs on the front walk in the afternoon shade. All for tonight, boy. We can complete Brothers Eight tomorrow. Post. - Amorella

        1959 hours. There was a time when none of this labor would have taken no more than an hour or so. Aches and pains affect both of us. Carol is rarely so tired. Part of it may have been the cooler temperature and constant breeze. Being outside most of the day was quite refreshing. We enjoyed our breaks in the shade.