Day 2176

 We woke up about 8 and played games until 9.  Then it was pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I went out to get ready to spray.

I got out the sprayer and tested it.  It worked fine.  Yeah.  That's as far as I got.  It was just too windy to spray.  So I got out the pole chainsaw Instead.  

There were three rather large broken branches in the back yard.  Two were by the playhouse and the other was in the opposite corner of the yard.  I cut them all down, cut them up, and hauled the pieces off into the woods.  By then I was a little tired, so I put everything away.

On the way back to the house I decided to look at the downed tree in the side yard.  It was a 10" tree with a lot of branches.  It looked like it would be fun to cut up though.  I went back to the garage and got everything out again.

I was right, it was fun to cut up.  I left about 8 feet of the trunk bent over and sticking out of the ground.  I think it looks better than a hole in the tree line.  Cutting up the branches and hauling them off into the woods wasn't any fun at all.  By the time I was finished I was hot, tired, and sweating again.  I was also bleeding from a minor cut on my arm. 

While I was working on the tree Ellen was cutting dead branches off the rosemary bush.  It's almost completely dead.  I waited inside until she was done.  I wanted to go to Goodwill to get a measuring cup for the poison.  We also had a lot of stuff to take to them.

We stopped at Randall's first.  We bought some items that HEB doesn't carry.  We left the stuff ant Goodwill, but I forgot to buy a measuring cup.  Crap.  The last stops were a hamburger place and the post office.  The property tax bill was there.  $8,000.  They have the place assessed at $550,000.

The wind had died down some by the time we got home.  I was sore and tired, so I took a shower.  Ellen went to the gun club.

Dinner was one of the frozen dinners we bought at Randall's.  After that I watched TV and read soe of the magazines that piled up while we were gone.  There's still a big pile left.

I have two doctor's appointments tomorrow - 9 and 11.  There won't be any spraying tomorrow.  That's OK, it's supposed to be windy again.