Have a five minute meet with a client and livestock to feed. Other than that I can do pretty much whatever I decide I want to do. So, I think I'll do this.
The only catch is that it is nearly 50 miles to the nearest mall.
Either that or.....
Finally set all of the clocks to Daylight Time. That should kill a few hours.
Either that or.....
It's a slow day here too. I was thinking about taking down the Christmas lights..but I really don't want to get ahead of myself. No hurry you know, it's not even summer yet. 😉
Either that or.....
One of my former teacher colleagues noted one April that birds had nested in the Christmas tree on his front porch. When chided, he said, "Well, it's ok; we don't turn the lights on any more."
My "slow day" started at 6:00 a.m., when I got up to make breakfast (pancakes and eggs) for my son so he'd have enough fuel to get through the SAT. Then it was off to the high school baseball field for Parents Work Day, where I moved about a yard of sand by wheelbarrow and spread it in the spectator areas.
I'm in relax mode now, enjoying lunch with my wife in my favorite bistro, sipping on iced tea and looking forward to a much-needed nap. I just can't haul dirt around like I used to, and I'm bushed.
went in for a bit today on flex time. Edited some files and uploaded them to the server.....
Mrs. File's going to be gone for a few days in the future so My regular work schedule will be impacted a bit while transporting and or watch Foster File.
It's amazing what you can get done when the phones are quiet and the crew is out....
Putzing around home now. Organizing the garage now that It's warmer and lighter....
Changed the oil in the survey rig this morning and spending time with the oldest this afternoon. Best thing in the world.
Took a 3-1/2 hour nap
Now I'm not worth a dang for anything.
Pretty dangerous at our age
Laying down for a nap before sunset and then waking up after sunset really screws with my head. I'm prone to look at the clock and think it's AM.
The dogs love it...I've hopped up and thought it was 6:30 AM and fed them their morning grub. I was in the shower and thinking about surveying when it hit me that Wheel of Fortune was on the tube in the other room instead of the news. :pinch:
Getting old is life playing its final practical joke on us.
Not me......I have been wide open all day.
Turkey season started this morning in northeast Mississippi, and both of my boys came down to hunt on the back 40. It was misting rain (again), so they quit early morning and came into the house. I cooked breakfast - home made biscuits, scrambled eggs with cheese, sausage patties and thick bacon with coffee, milk and orange juice. Marybeth pulled out a jar of her homemade pear preserves to go along with some store-bought molasses, Blackburns's syrup and some strawberry jelly. It has always been my job to cook Sunday morning breakfast, and I did so for over 20 years when the boys were growing up. Both my boys got married within a month of each other about five years ago, so I stopped cooking breakfast. When they come over for opening day of deer, dove and turkey seasons, or Christmas morning, I will cook breakfast. I am pretty good at making the biscuits. I really like it when my boys bring their families over. I have two wonderful daughters-in-law and by mid-May, I will have FIVE absolutely adorable grandkids. The twins yell "paw paw!" and come running when we visit! There ain't nothing like it!
I finished out the day by setting the line and corner markers on a 60-acre parcel. It misted rained on me twice, but not hard enought to quit. The lawyer and owners are getting anxious. The back corner was 4.1 miles from my pickup through a recent cut-over and across two creeks. The recent rains and ice/snow broke a lot of pine branches across the trails, and the ground was "rotten" -a term we use to describe fully saturated soil conditions. One has to be careful with an ATV, or one could get BAD stuck and have to walk a mile or so to find someone with another ATV to get pulled out. I dare not get my two-wheel drive pickup too far of the road. I parked in a church gravel parking lot today. I finished right at dark, which was 7:32 p.m. this time of year, so I am using my saved daylight. I surveyed only two days last week in the leftover snow/sleet with the temperatures in the teens and twenties. Today, it was 72° and I got HOT-mainly because I wore a thick t-shirt and a heavy Carhart shirt. Typical Mississippi conditions and weather. Today was my first chance to go outside all week long. It has rained every single day this week.
Yep, getting older (recently turned 59) means that I get up a little slower in the morning, I can't squat down to drive a corner marker easily, I can't easily reach under the tailgate of my truck to tie a rope loop around my trailer hitch ball to hold my ATV in the back of my truck, and I can't hold up all day when the temperature is pushing 100°. I will be able to start drawing a state retirement next year, but in the meantime I am solo and providing my sole source of income. Thank the Good Lord I have good health, an understanding wife, good clients and and a backlog of work.
Ya'll 'choot 'em straight, and drive 'em deep. I am going to bed!B-)
