Bye, Summer

Can you believe we are into September?

I'm not the biggest fan of summer. Mainly because I absolutely hate the heat. I will skimp in other areas of my life in order to keep paying for my air conditioning. I just turned it off for the first time in two months on Thursday. I hate to be hot. Just wait until menopause gets here. It will not be safe in Lorain, I'm sure.

The heat may have gone and with it came a summer bug for me. I'm talking myself out of feeling badly since we're having company tomorrow for the holiday. So, my sinuses really aren't full, and my sore throat is just my imagination. I'm sure of it!

Yesterday, Ron and I were running errands in the rain. As an incentive for being responsible and running needed errands, we went to lunch at Qdoba (owned by Jack in the Box). One of my new favoritest places! I'm a HUGE fan of Chipotle's (believe it or not, owned by McDonald's) and Qdoba is a close second to it. Qdoba's are not as good as Chipotle's, but they are much closer to home. Some days you gotta do what you gotta do.

With Ron's eye surgeries, his biggest precaution has been to keep everything out of his eyes. Whenever he leaves the house, he has his big sunglasses on to protect his eyes. One of the points mentioned was no gardening, to make sure no dirt got in his eyes. Well, the grass has been growing, especially after all the rain we had. Our yard was looking like a jungle out there! As a side point, when the grass gets long enough, you realize how much really isn't grass but weeds! Interesting. Oh well. At least they are green and when kept to a reasonable length can fool most people that it's actually grass. Had me going for almost three years!

This afternoon, the sky was getting black and we really thought we were just in between rain storms. I offered to help with the yard work so that we could get it cut down before the next deluge. I took the hand mower duties, since we figured that was a worse choice for Ron. He stayed on the riding mower with his sunglass protection in place.

I don't mind helping with the yard I guess. All I had to do was go around everything with the hand mower since the riding mower can't cut everywhere. That sounded easy. After five trees, one telephone pole, two water shut off valves and one road sign pole, I was one dizzy broad! I couldn't walk a straight line if I had to and I realized I was done for the day. I took the hand mower back to the garage and just watched Ron finish the rest. I think I'm much better suited for a supervisory position than actual manual labor.

There is my exciting weekend so far. Tomorrow will be a cook out with Dad and Jim and maybe a few surprise guests. Lucky for everyone, Ron is cooking so all should be ok in our world!

May everyone have a safe and happy holiday.