So this is retirement?
Aug. 1st, 2017 09:18 pmToday's schedule:
Any questions?
- 5:30 am - Rise, take meds, record blood pressure, feed fish, wind clocks, check e-mail. (62 new messages)
- 6:30 am - Go out and feed horses and ducks, dodging mosquitoes on the way
- 7:15 am - Feed dog
- 7:30 am - Breakfast
- 8:00 am - Answer some e-mail, delete a lot of it
- 8:30 am - Go out with husband to clean stalls, set up hay for next 24 hours, dodge more mosquitoes
- 8:50 am - Chase neighbors' chickens out of garden
- 9:00 am - Prepare sample recordings for musical group ThingamaJig consideration
- 10:00 am - Update grocery shopping list, plan to shop after rehearsal
- 10:30 am - Leave for ThingamaJig rehearsal, with stop at bank on the way to make a payment
- 11:30 am - Rehearsal until 2:30 pm
- 2:30 pm - Go to lunch with husband, stopping for gas and car wash on the way
- 3:00 pm - Lunch
- 3:15 pm - Hay supplier calls to ask if he can drop off a load of hay this afternoon
- 3:45 pm - Finish lunch, plan to head straight home to meet hay supplier, skip grocery shopping
- 3:50 pm - Discover that brake lights, tail lights, and rear turn signals are out on husband's car
- 4:30 pm - Arrive home, chase neighbor's chickens out of garden, put Tess in her stall
- 4:40 pm - Dismantle Tess' indoor portable pen to allow hay wagon to get into barn
- 5:00 pm - Unload hay, working up a lot of sweat, write check for Sunday's & today's deliveries (ouch)
- 5:45 pm - Examine brake lights, discover that a) the plastic housings for both lights have melted from
the heat of the bulbs, making it very difficult to remove them; and b) both bulbs are broken
apparently due to water from the car wash hitting them while hot; replace bulbs, reassemble - 7:00 pm - Feed other 2 horses and put them in their stalls, then discover that during the day a huge
dead oak branch has fallen on their fence, knocking two rails out of it (fortunately horses
are lazy and did not wander off) - 7:15 pm - Temporary repairs to fence; remove huge branch from dry lot; pick up after horses
- 7:45 pm - Shower to remove sweat and mosquito repellent that made me sneeze but didn't work
- 8:15 pm - Feed dog; fix salad for dinner, eat it
- 9:00 pm - Sign into bank online and shuffle funds around so check to hay guy doesn't bounce
- 9:15 pm - Let the dog out, he sniffs around but does nothing
- 9:30 pm - Write this post
- 9:45 pm - Go to bed knowing dog will want to go out at 11:00 and probably again at 2:00 am because
he drank a gallon of water after eating his supper
Any questions?