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Week of 28 January 2008

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Monday, 28 January 2008

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Over the weekend I started the most recent book in Susan Wittig Albert's Beatrix Potter mystery series, The Tale of Hawthorn House. As I have written before, these are excellent books if you like this type of reading. Albert uses fact intertwined with fiction including the real Beatrix Potter stories as part of her plot. The animals can talk to each other but the humans do not hear them, only the reader. In this tale, Beatrix gets a gift basket left on her front doorstep with a infant, a blanket, a note with her name, and a msyterious ring. With gypsies camped in the nearby woods, the villages suspect one of them took the baby. Hopefully these clues will lead Beatrix to the mother.

Bob and I have been watching the Inspector Morse mysteries. We saw them when they aired on our local PBS station but in rewatching them we have discovered some we missed.

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

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I finally got my hair cut today. When I had to cancel last Monday because of my leg I rescheduled for yesterday afternoon. Over the weekend Pam called to let me know she had a family emergency and needed to reschedule from yesterday to today. The only thing she had was 3:00 which was fine. After my hair cut I took care of some shopping things I wanted to do last week. All the stores just happened to be in one place which made it easy. I used my gift card I got for Christmas to pick up some shirts for work then stopped in Linen's and Things for a few items.

The calf is better but the left knee is still bothering me some. I continue to wear the brace. The knee I had the surgery on fine but I can tell is still not 100%. Between the walking I did at work this morning and what I did this afternoon shopping I was pretty tired by the time I finished up. I lost some of my fitness in the last three months when my knee went out on me that I will have to work hard to regain.



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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

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No update.



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Thursday, 31 January 2008

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A very busy couple of days at work. Last night was gym night then after dinner trash to round up and bills to pay.

Tonight I picked up Bob after work. We stopped at the library before having dinner at the Chinese place then I did the grocery shopping while he sat in the car. He prefers to sit and read instead of going in to shop. I am very glad tomorrow is Friday. It has been a very long week.

Not much else in the news. The weather has been cool and windy. Rain coming in tonight. The counties north of us may get some ice but we are supposed to get just rain here.

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Friday, 1 February 2008

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We had something close to an inch and half of rain last night up through about midday. The counties north and west of us got some pretty nasty ice on the trees but not much on the street.

I finished the Beatrix Potter mystery last night and started another Anne Perry, Southampton Row. Once again, Perry has sent Pitt's wife Charlotte, his two children, and their maid Gracie off on holiday. Pitt remains behind in London to try to prevent a ruthless politician (HA) from running for a seat in Parliament. Pitt successfully prevented this same politician from trying to overthrow the government in her previous book Whitechapel Conspiracy. His opponent, much more low key, has his campaign tarnished by his wife's association with a murdered by a well known spiritualist.

We have been watching some more of the Morse mysteries.



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Saturday, 2 February 2008

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I have had a very busy day. I slept in until around 8, had breakfast, and started the house cleaning. Bathrooms are cleaned and mopped, floors vacuumed, and furniture dusted.

After lunch I had the dogs out back to play for a few minutes then...drum roll, I did some yard work. It is a beautiful day with mild temperatures, and little breeze. I used the blower to remove the leaves from the natural areas on both sides of the front of the house then fired up my vacuum. I did the driveway where I blew the leaves from that side of the house and the front and side yards. It took the usual hour and a half. Since the lawn vacuum is not self propelled I can walk at my own speed. I used mostly upper body strength to push it anyway just my legs if I have to go up hill or pull backwards. That's why I blew the natural areas first to keep from having to use my legs a lot. The side yard is a small stretch down a hill. I can run it back and forth sideways down the hill with very little backing up motion.

I was tired but both knees and my calf felt fine. The most important thing for me to do is look where I step if I back up and to make sure I turn, step, and plant my foot in the direction I am going before moving.

This afternoon we have some errands to run before meeting Paul and Mary for dinner.


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Sunday, 3 February 2008

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After a rather lazy morning of sleeping in until 8 and reading the paper I ironed the load of work pants and shirts I washed yesterday.
 
This afternoon I used the blower and vacuum to do the backyard. I set the mower down one notch and mowed the front yard to clean up the high dead Bermuda grass and even up the rest of the yard. I was pretty tired by them but had not planned on trying to do the back until maybe next weekend. Although the mower is not all that loud  Bob is downstairs doing his phone interview with the Amateur Observers' Society of New York.

The dogs and I are being as quiet as possible until he is finished. I plan on relaxing the rest of the day. The golf is on from Phoenix followed by the Super Bowl. I don't watch professional team sports anymore. They make too much money. But, on the other hand so do a lot of executives for non-profit groups and major corporations. It will be interesting to see if the Patriots can go undefeated. Tom Petty is the half time show. Hopefully he will do a much better job than the crap performance put on last year by the Mick and the Stones. If the game is close I may stay up to watch the second half.


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