First Sunburn 2011

Oh my, I am just pooped.  Pooped and pink.  I've been working in the yard all day.  Since about 10AM I think.  PC says it's 7:20PM, but I have taken a shower and cut my toenails, so I didn't just get inside.  At one point, planting the now three roses (since I went to Lowe's again for dirt to plant the first two I bought), I sniffed the air and thought, some Indian man is standing next to me and he does not believe in pit dissolver.  But lo!  It was me.

But, I have raked the front yard.  I thought it would only take three hours, but it took much much longer than that.  I have a big front yard.  In front of the fence anyway.  Passersby use it as a dump for their empty liquor bottles and fast food wrappings.  A number of cigarrette butts too.  Mostly though it was just the final leaves that fell in the Fall, well after my last efforts.  The Creepy Charlie has is very alive and has made efforts to strangle the bulbs, so I had to stop as I notices and rescue the ones that were obviously being attacked.

I also had two really low spots in the front near Chuck's house.  One of them was where I had a tree removed last year and had the stump ground. It sunk a few inches and I almost twisted my ankle in the hole while I was raking.  I filled it with 6 cubic feet of dirt.  That is heavy, but I am renaming myself Brunhilda because I have heinous biceps and a belly to match.

I found another low spot not far from the first one and put another bag of dirt in that one.  A never ending replenishment going at the hood homestead. 

This Thursday at Toastmasters I am the Grammarian.  The theme of Thursday's meeting is Ability to Adapt to Change.  I am to find a good word that people can learn -- like bailiwick, which was last week's word, meaning strength or forte, and I am to write it and its definition on the board.  Throughout the meeting I am to listen for good or bad use of grammar and comment at the end of the meeting.  Should be a fun meeting.