so old........

ok, so i spent yesterday in a frenzied cleaning tear.....next saturday is the annual pound-and-pedal event......now in it's 20th+ year...........a run/bike event that really has no winners nor losers........and that starts and ends at our house.........it started as a run/bike 'pilgrimage' of sorts between our friend mark's law office in town...to his house in the 'knobs'....each entrant runs while his/her partner rides.....then at 5 mile intervals they switch off.....and the runner bikes and the biker rides........got it?..........some clever teams did it as a tandem thing....with 2 runners and 2 bikers at a time......and some just rode and some just ran (wow...a tough 20-miler prior to a marathon......).....the route went over at least 2 knobs.......and a potluck always followed....in those pre-children some stayed on in the hottub....and partied well into the evening.......but in these harried times most people have gone off to some other labor-day weekend event by 1:00 in the afternoon........ah well.....we are getting old, aren't we?........so back to cleaning..............my yard never looks as bad as it does just before the pound-and-pedal......somehow.....the indiginous plants try to take over...........weeds get to be the size of a corn crop...............and invasive perrenials go crazy and take over entire beds............so yesterday.......after i scrubbed down the porch...............i weeded planting beds.............and trimmed hedges........and pruned rose bushes................i made it 1/2 way around the perimeter of the fence.......and then it became too hot, so i took the truck to town to buy mulch ( the nursery is not open on sundays on a reliable basis)...............and planned to finish up later in the day when the temperature dropped at least 20 degrees..................alas, that was when the thunderstorm started.....so i stowed the truck in the garage................wet mulch is no fun to spread..........and decided to lounge away the rest of my saturday evening................which brings us to this morning.................my back is achey from bending down, my fingers and hands are in pain from pulling weeds...............and i feel about 95 years old..............AND i have to finish up this afternoon because i do not plan to drive a truck filled with mulch to work........i do not normally drive the truck...but i believe that is how it would pan out if i failed to empty it out today................ha!...pray for me..............