Day 257

Today was a pretty good day for everyone except the dog.

I woke up when the alarm went off, bt stayed in bed surfing for half an hour or so.  Then I got up did the pet thing, and had breakfast.  After that I went out to the garage and changed the oil on the mower.  It was a fairly painless operation.  After that I hauled the mower lift back to the back storage building and put ant poison all over the door that the ants are eating.  Finally I hauled out the recycling and put out the garbage.

It was high 70's and 95% humidity when I started.  It just got warmer while I was working.  When I was finished I was soaked in sweat.  So I went in and took a shower.  I decided the dog needed one, too.  She was getting kind of greasy.

When we were finished with that we put the pets away and left.  We went to Barton Square via the post office.  We wanted to get a shorter chain for the pendant Ellen bought yesterday and we wanted to get some lower cut t-shirts for her to wear with it.

Our mall trip was successful.  We got a really nice chain at the second jewelry store we went to.  We ate lunch at a Japanese place in the food court.  All its food was freshly prepared and really good.  Ellen also got three t-shirts at Nordstrom.

On the way back we stopped at a snow cone place on Slaughter.  It was really good and has a nice shady area to sit and eat them at.  We'll be stopping there again.

The last stop was HEB.  We were getting low on TP, a critical problem.

We didn't get home until 5:30.  We freed the dog and fed her.  Then we read and watched TV for the rest of the evening.

About 7:30 two bunnies appeared in the back yard.  I let  Lucy out.  When they ran away one got tangled in the fence and Lucy caught it.  I told Lucy to leave it and she did.  It ran away (Lucy has a soft mouth) and Lucy gave chase.  It was some time before she came back.  When she got back we had to pick burs off her.

The best news today was that Ellen's bag didn't start leaking.