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Post by Clipper on Jun 9, 2020 6:13:12 GMT -5
Sounds like fun CB. It feels good to cautiously move toward socialization with friends once more. Kathy made a lemon pie for the elderly father of a friend who is under the care of a local hospice care provider. We took our folding camp chairs, and they sat in theirs, properly distanced from each other, while we chatted and caught up on the latest news in our lives. They live on top of a hill overlooking Bristol and the view and the breeze there was very pleasant on a very warm evening. It was just a real joy to actually socialize face to face and escape the isolation for a short time.
I am headed out to finish the last bit of tilling in the garden shortly. It is 70 already and headed to 90 once more. I will probably only work out there until about 10, when the sun will be getting high enough to make it overly hot for gardening. The plants will get transplanted this evening. We are getting and extremely late start on our garden this year. Hopefully we will still get a decent yield, although a bit later than normal. One difference between here and NY is that we are often able continue to harvest things until November before we get any killing frost.
It is actually quite convenient that during the hottest part of the day I have my cardiac rehab sessions scheduled, allowing me to do my exercising in air conditioned comfort when it is too hot to actually be doing anything outside anyway. The time passes quickly while watching tv with closed captioning while working on two pieces of equipment for 40 minutes. I normally do the elliptical for 30 minutes and then 10 minutes on a machine that exercises my arms and shoulders by cranking a machine similar to bike pedals for your arms. After taking a couple of cool down laps around the little track they take our blood pressure, twice for some reason, and then we spend the rest of the session either watching a video or in the kitchen area, either listening to a lecture by a nutritionist or learning to prepare different recipes in a cooking class.
I am actually enjoying it. It's too bad that a person has to have a life threatening cardiac event before they are prompted to take part in such a program.
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Post by Clipper on Jun 9, 2020 20:37:23 GMT -5
Well I didn't enjoy my workout rehab session today. I went out at 7 to finish tilling and to plant the garden. It was 85 by 9:30 or so, and was in the low 90's when I finished at 11:30. I was bound and determined to finish planting the garden today so I stayed out longer than I should have. Four and a half hours in that sun about did me in. I came in and took a shower, had a sandwich and went to rehab. I felt like crap. Too much sun. Heat exhaustion got me. They took one look at me and sent me home from rehab, told me to hydrate and rest for the rest of the day. It took me until supper time to actually feel right. I guess I have been feeling too good and enjoying working outside without getting out of breath, but sweating until my t-shirt was stuck to me and my ball cap, including the entire brim was soaked left me dehydrated and sick to my stomach.
I won't do that again. The nurse at cardiac rehab said that I might feel a lot better but I still have to remember that I am 73 yrs old. I used to work in the sun for 8 or 10 hours at a time with no negative consequences.
Lesson learned? I will be going to the garden at 7am again, but tomorrow I will just take a walk around the yard, piddle around in the garage for a bit and will be back in the house for breakfast at 8 and won't go out again until my rehab session at 1. It kind of scared me feeling so badly this afternoon.
It was 92 here this afternoon and at 6:30 it was still in the 80's. I just looked out and it is raining so hopefully it will cool things down a bit.
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Post by BHU on Jun 10, 2020 9:02:30 GMT -5
Yesterday I pulled my truck out behind the house where there's a ittle shade & washed my truck which was coated with pollen. Dried it off with a terry cloth towel so no water spots. I then pulled a few weeds & watered & fertilized the garden. That did me in & I don't know why because it wasen't that hot out. Had dinner about 6 & fell asleep on the sofa about 8 & slept there till I woke up @5 this morning. Maybe because the night before I only slept for 6 hours, but today I feel well rested ready to go. I'm waiting for the tree guy to take down 2 more pine trees. One died off completely & the one next to it also has to go. He's also grinding the stumps & he's taking the shavings, that's part of the deal this time around. I'll only have to backfill the hole with topsoil, plant seed & that's it.
Glad you feel better, Clipper. Stay cool & hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
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Post by Clipper on Jun 10, 2020 9:24:44 GMT -5
I am glad that you got a good night's sleep and feel rested today. We all have different sleep patterns. You said you ONLY slept 6 hours the night before last. I almost always get only six hours sleep and still awake rested. Just a habit that my particular body seems to have acclimated itself to.
I don't know how old you might be BHU, but it seems that our stamina and ability to handle physical labor diminishes with age. I am not surprised that you needed a nap after washing and drying the truck. I find myself needing to rest often and that is what I DIDN'T do yesterday and I paid for it.
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Post by BHU on Jun 10, 2020 16:44:22 GMT -5
I'll be 64 soon Clipper & I can't deal with the heat like I use to. Part of the aging process, I guess. Tree guy showed up & took down the trees, he's coming back Friday for the stump grinding & thst's it for the trees around here, my wallet can't take this. Lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2020 10:54:38 GMT -5
It was warm yesterday. I watered my plants then headed to Walmart then to liquor store for some wine returned home late afternoon and then vacuumed the rug in living room and it needed it. Had a few glasses of red wine then cooked supper. I stuffed a chicken breast with a mixture of spinach and ricotta cheese then baked it in oven. Was excellent with a nice garden salad.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 11, 2020 20:38:04 GMT -5
I think that qualifies you as the kid here. I believe I am still the old guy, born Jan 1947.
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Post by Clipper on Jun 11, 2020 22:17:46 GMT -5
I think that qualifies you as the kid here. I believe I am still the old guy, born Jan 1947. You haven't got me by much CB. I was born on Feb. 1st 1947. |
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Post by BHU on Jun 12, 2020 16:31:44 GMT -5
I think that qualifies you as the kid here. I believe I am still the old guy, born Jan 1947. LMAO! I don't feel like a kid. Today I dumped & leve led off 26 bags of topsoil to fill in the holes from the trees I had taken down. Nice day for it, temps in the 60's & sunny. Tomorrow, I'll condition the soil that's probably acidic with some lime, cow manure & maybe plant seed. |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jun 12, 2020 19:19:13 GMT -5
Do you want to work for my wife? She needs someone who can do more than 1 hour of yardwork per day.
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Post by BHU on Jun 12, 2020 19:25:16 GMT -5
Do you want to work for my wife? She needs someone who can do more than 1 hour of yardwork per day. I lied. Those 26 bags were spread out over 26 hours. Lol |
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Post by Clipper on Jun 13, 2020 9:51:25 GMT -5
Another beautiful day today here in the South. Going to only go to the mid 80's again with low humidity. Great weather to finish my fence around the garden. I bought the orange vinyl roll fencing in 100 ft roll, 4 feet tall. I cut in down to 2 foot and staked it out, tying it to stakes with nylon ties. I finished 3 sides yesterday and yesterday evening after supper I went to the shop and fabricated a picket fence style gate. I am headed to Lowes to by a couple of 8 foot landscape timbers for gate posts and the hardware to install the gate. Then it will be time to mow again because it is suppose to start raining again tomorrow afternoon. I still have work to do to restore the areas where the stumps were. I abandoned that project temporarily to get the garden prepped and planted. When the next non-rainy days come around I need to get back to trying to get some grass to grow where the trees and stumps were. Have a good day up there in NY state. I wish we were there to take a nice ride in the Adirondacks and have a picnic or camp at one of the wonderful NY State parks now that they are opening back up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 10:51:03 GMT -5
I bought a container of basil plants for my indoor window garden! A woman on the 4th floor who has a south facing window planted her inside garden. She has basil, spinach, tomatoes and zucchini and swiz chard growing in her apartment. She has very large pots in place of furniture in living room. Somehow she worked in a TV and lawn chair in there and it does look cute. Tropical!
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Post by Clipper on Jun 14, 2020 13:55:55 GMT -5
Busy day today. I finished the garden fence, hung the gate, mowed the lawn, did about half of the weed eating, and built a picnic table with my neighbor. He bought the treated lumber and I told him I would build it for him. Table done, neighbor gone, next project after supper tonight is to clean up the foot of sawdust that we managed to make around every power saw in the shop, and put all the tools away from both the garden fence project as well as the picnic table build. With both of us working on it we started from scratch, cut the pieces, and assemble the table in a little over 2 hours. It helped that I have built them before. Way back when Grossman's lumber was on French Road, I used to buy two by sixes, build picnic tables, stain them and sell them for $60. That was a pretty good price back in the 80's.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2020 14:30:32 GMT -5
I went for a walk today and just returned. Not much going on downtown except for the one old guy who was taking a pee on the Liberty Bell in the park. What's up with that!
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