It's hard to believe that April is already over, that in just a couple short hours, we will cross the line into the month of May. Time is flying by so fast, it's almost insane. Life is like a roll of toilet paper... the closer we get to the end, the faster it goes.
Today I got up and unloaded the bricks from my truck. When I was about 3/4 done, my friend Art showed up and helped me finish it off. Then he went with me and helped me load the last of the bricks, a small load in comparison to what I brought home the last two days. Art also helped me to unload and stack them. Most of the bricks that still had the mortar attached were thrown in a pile to the side of the stack of bricks I was building. Art put some with mortar still on them into the stack (grrrr) but that's okay... they can be cleaned up later on. While he was still here, I took the hammer and started cleaning the mortar off the bricks. Then Art said he was going for a drive and would I like to go along. SURE! He went off to do a couple things, leaving me to shower and get ready to go. I did a bunch more bricks first though, haha. Then showered and was almost ready when he returned 45 minutes after he left.
We went for a really nice long drive. I've always loved going for drives and with the increasing costs of gasoline I've had to stop driving just for the pleasure of it. I miss that. So today was really nice. We drove from Vernon to near Kamloops, then down to Salmon Arm where we stopped for some gas, then out to Sicamous and back along Mara Lake to Enderby, then out through Trinity Valley to Lumby and back in to Vernon. That, my friends, is a long drive. It was a slow, relaxed drive of the sight seer, not the fast driving of someone needing to get somewhere in a short time... and it took something like 5 1/2 hours.
Once Art dropped me off, it was still light out, so I cleaned a bunch more bricks... almost all there were left in the heaps, but then ran out of light so left the last few for tomorrow. Also, my body told me it had had enough for today. Thank God for the meds I have for pain or I couldn't have done all this work. I don't usually take it as I don't want to depend on it or have my body get to where the meds don't work any more... but there are times when one has to do what one has to do. As well as a pain killer these ones are also anti-inflammatory, so help the body to recuperate from the 'ordeal'. It sure feels good to have gotten so much work done in the last few days.
Tomorrow I hope to get some stuff done around the house. There is a lot to do inside as well as a lot to do outside.
We went for a really nice long drive. I've always loved going for drives and with the increasing costs of gasoline I've had to stop driving just for the pleasure of it. I miss that. So today was really nice. We drove from Vernon to near Kamloops, then down to Salmon Arm where we stopped for some gas, then out to Sicamous and back along Mara Lake to Enderby, then out through Trinity Valley to Lumby and back in to Vernon. That, my friends, is a long drive. It was a slow, relaxed drive of the sight seer, not the fast driving of someone needing to get somewhere in a short time... and it took something like 5 1/2 hours.
Once Art dropped me off, it was still light out, so I cleaned a bunch more bricks... almost all there were left in the heaps, but then ran out of light so left the last few for tomorrow. Also, my body told me it had had enough for today. Thank God for the meds I have for pain or I couldn't have done all this work. I don't usually take it as I don't want to depend on it or have my body get to where the meds don't work any more... but there are times when one has to do what one has to do. As well as a pain killer these ones are also anti-inflammatory, so help the body to recuperate from the 'ordeal'. It sure feels good to have gotten so much work done in the last few days.
Tomorrow I hope to get some stuff done around the house. There is a lot to do inside as well as a lot to do outside.
1 comment:
I love to take long drives on the weekends. I think we've settled on doing this once a month, as a nod to the high gas prices but not a complete surrender.
So I'm glad it's May so we can start planning our next drive!
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