Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱

Before I even got out of bed Sunday, my wife informed me that we were making a “To Do List” first thing. That generally does not bode well for me, as often as not, she has some task in mind that I’d rather pass on. So this morning I beat her to the punch and made up my own To Do list as follows:

  1. Massague Linda’s legs – this was added first thing, and I didn’t mind.
  2. Take Dickens, our Golden Retriever, for a golf cart ride. On days when our dog walker is not scheduled, I generally take Dickens for a 20-minute cart ride around Pecan Plantation, which he really enjoys, in the mornings and evenings.
  3. After the ride, fuel the golf cart. I do that once a week. Takes 5.5 gal and topped up today.
  4. Check tire pressures on wife’s car. We recently had new tires installed, and according to the car’s tire pressure monitor system, all pressures were off. Not now.
  5. My wife has a stick vacuum cleaner; she does out tile floors with a Golden Retriever that produces gobs of hair. The brush was not going around was reported. I ran it on my workbench for some time without any difficulty, and also vacuumed floors, also no problem. So this one ended up as an open item.
  6. We have a local gal coming in today to work in the house and do some yard work for me, which I had to get ready for. I filled our wheelbarrow with bark mulch – 2 1/2 bags, and loaded a cart up with 2 bags of mulch/compost for use tomorrow. We’re going to place bark mulch around three new trees we have recently planted in the front yard and replace the mulch that has floated away in the rainstorms we have here in North Texas.
  7. We have a thornless rose that grows very, very rapidly and needs trimming almost weekly. I got the big Ryobi 40-volt trimmer out that we have and gave the bush a trimming.
  8. The last thing on my list is to watch the Ravens-Chiefs game at 3:25 PM. I’ll be ready to sit by then.

Meanwhile, I’m going out and clean the front bumper on our truck that I recently backed into and left a little evidence behind. Keep in mind, all of this was accomplished before lunch by an 86-year-old on dialysis with heart conditions, a spinal cord stimulator, and diabetes. Not too shabby, I would say. Now to the ball game and Dickens’ evening golf cart ride.