Hot & Humid...

Yesterday was our 1st time to hit, humid day in the 90's.  The day wasn't too bad, but the evening was unpleasant.   We were supposed to have this hellish amount of rain & thunder storms.   We got neither, just  wave of hot, wet air.

Not much is going on today.  I'm glad, it's still pretty humid.   Doing anything right now would be like swimming through muck, even if it is cooler today.  

It's a holiday weekend, Memorial Day.  Not that we'll do anything.  It won't even get us a cheap chocolate day.  It will however, mess up the mail.   Joy & at the end of the month even.  That always throws everything off for a bit.

Until tomorrow.

Cya...

Really Off...

Yesterday was the hottest we've gotten.  According to Weather.com,   we got up to 107 with a heat index into the 110's.  Other weather sites had us about 5 degrees lower with a much higher humidity level.  Either way it sucked.  

I made it through the day.  We had some errands & such over in Fort Smith.  But, now I feel like crap.  I was tired when we got back, but I'm still exhausted & spent.  No spoons for much today.

Sorry for another short post, but this is all I can do today & it's only 8:30 in the morning.  Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow.  I hate that my health & meds collide with the heat.  Summer used to be my favorite season.

Cya...

Yesterday's Goof...

Yesterday I blogged about my 1st yard work of the season.  It didn't go well.  I had shaky arms for an hour afterwards.  The goof here was that it was my own doing.  It wasn't just that I did the yard work, but that I did it without the right gloves.  

I had on my typical gardening gloves.  Normally, those are enough for doing things in the yard, but not weed-eating.  I have a pair of shock absorbing gloves that I should've wore & didn't even think about them until this morning.  I did more yard work & weed-eating today with the right gloves & have very little shaking in my hands.  

The point is that my shaky arms were my own fault.  I should've remembered I needed the other gloves.  I failed to employ a basic work philosophy, "The right tool for the right job."  The gloves I wore yesterday were not the right ones & I paid for it.    If I had stopped & thought about it a little more, maybe I might've used the right gloves.  

Today, I took my time & remembered the right gloves.  I did the work & I am sitting here with no shakes or aches.   A lot of what happens to us in our lives boils down to bad choices we made.  We get in a rush.  We don't stop to think the matter through.  In the end a lot of the unwanted in our lives is their because of our own doing.

Cya...

Shaky Arms...

Did my 1st bit of yard work of the Fall.  Not much, thankfully the rechargeable battery on the weed eater doesn't last long.  I know that sounds counter productive & for most people it probably is.  However, after doing very little work I'm happy it's over.

1. I ran the weed eater over an overgrown patch of mint
2. I edged part of the drive
3. I trimmed a few unruly limbs from bushes
4. I sprayed weed killer along the drive
5. I gleefully poisoned a large fire ant mound
6. I replaced the tools & other things

After what amounted to about 20 - 30 minutes of work, my hands are weak & arms are shaking.  I get this every time I use power yard tools. It goes away in a bit, but it's always weird when it happens & I have to be careful how I hold things.  It isn't making typing all that much fun either.  So that's my day so far & this post has to come to an end.  

Cya...