laundry

Oh, it is beautiful here.  The trees have all turned on the hills and the pine needles make everything smell so good.

Katie wrote earlier that I am excited about the new recycling program in Knoxville. And every word she spoke was true.

I’m sure that’s no great revelation.

1.  Trip to Home Depot to get stuff for compost pile (chicken wire and posts)–done.

2.  Firewood purchased from shady threesome in a truck–check.

3.  Groceries purchased–check

4.  China unpacked–check

5.  Sheets washed–check

When I get bored I find odd things to do. I have drunk (drank, drinked, dronked?…whatever) too much coffee much too late in the day. I really don’t want to watch the World Series right now and I just walked away from reading. My wife is conked out on the couch sawing lumber and I am waiting on the last of our laundry to be done.

Because technically, it was supposed to be published yesterday, but I forget.

If you all recall my post about M.I.L.F. syndrome, you might remember that one problem we face is too much idle time. I have been thinking about this lately as I struggle to keep up with housework and laundry for a house of 5 people while training for an Ironman. The strange truth is, I like doing the housework.

I love September 30.

It is one of my favorite days of the year. Because a few years ago The Beautiful Bride was born. and that makes it a great day.

And like always we did something very special to celebrate this very special day. In the past we have gone to dinner, or painted pottery, or baked a cake.

It was just over a month ago that we were trudging through the hottest, sweatiest days of the summer, and yet here we are, at the end of September, freezing our bums off. While technically speaking the temperature has not been freezing, it has been hovering around 60 degrees F (about 15 C, I think), and has felt downright cold for the last week or so.