Glad to get to do things

[eve_prime]

Finally, today, I got to do lots of things! I’d had a cold that lasted more than two weeks, plus minor food poisoning, and then when I was presumably all well again the heating part of my heat pump came on during the night for two nights, and all the dust it stirred up gave me quite a headache. But! Last night I turned the heat pump setting as low as I could, and today, no headache!

I went to two libraries, a bookstore, a hardware store, and a supermarket. I acquired six library books, two classical CDs from a dollar bin, a pretty card for my sister’s birthday (photo of hollyhocks), a glass storage bowl suitable for use in the freezer, a “telescopic cobweb duster,” and some salmon. When I got home I ate the salmon and did a good job in my annual cleaning of the cobwebs that collect in the eaves around my front porch – it was so easy that I’ll probably do it a lot more often. We also signed the card, and I mailed it to my sister. Later, J – who could have had jury duty today but did not, hooray – and I went to Safeway and had to spend $200 to get the optimal discount. It was a lot of work. But then we were done and could relax.

Comments

[heleninwales]

You got a lot done. Sometimes chores are hard because you don't have the right tools. I do have a cobweb brush on a long handle. It works really well. The only problem then is getting the cobwebs off the brush.

[eve_prime]

This new tool was relatively expensive ($27ish, I think), but it is already paying off by making the task so much more convenient. And if it saves me a future injury by making it easier to get to difficult spots, then that's even better. It claims the head (which unscrews) can easily be washed by plunging it into sudsy water, but I haven't tried it yet.