Oooff. Ouch. STOP THAT!

 I guess I just have to admit I'm getting old. Drat it all anyway.

This morning I walked for three full miles around the track!!  Woo Hoo!  That's been my goal for a bit now.  I think I can continue that. I had no "Hip Episodes," so that was nice. My feet were starting to get a bit sore, hot and tired by the time I headed home, however. I'm walking on a nice even track that is kind of soft and bouncy (compared to concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets) with less risks of falling.  I have to think about falling? Yeah. You heard me. I'm old.

Then I came home and put on LONG clothing so I could go and dig through the raspberries. I got a couple of cups.  I do love those little things. 

I made some Miracle Gro and gave my green bean plants a drink. They were the only things that needed water. Most of the tomatoes and raspberries and squash had moist soil already.  But I went ahead and dumped the wheelbarrow's rain accumulation on them, too. Why not?

I sawed off two dead branches on my apple tree. They just died this year and I don't want the disease to spread, so off they came.  With much effort. I love my pruning saws. They are Fiskars brand, nice and sharp.  But it took me a long time. Lots of rests.  But I did it!  Mike came out and called me "Paul," as in Paul Bunyon.  That'd be PaulINE, if you please.  I pulled up some weeds, too.  Not buckets full, though, so that's nice. 

Then I moved some dirt for Mike and kind of got the back wall of the house covered up to the water-proofing line. Only, all the rest of the dirt has to slope AWAY from that point and there's a lot of dirt back there that does NOT slope away from the house.  I don't know exactly what to do with all that, so I'm leaving it for now.  We have to figure out where and how to put the retaining wall. . . but first the steps have to be put in. He's working on that. He cut one whole block today!! Progress.  Very little progress. In all fairness, it is stinking hot outside.

But wait! There's more!  While Mike went shopping and returning and selling (tools, etc) I dug up more irises and some asparagus and moved those. I dug up, divided and moved a big clump of chives that were kind of crowding and blocking the view of our lovely rose bush. 

And THEN I came in and showered. I was beat, soaked through with sweat, even though most of my work had been (thankfully) in the shade. I ate breakfast, took a nap.  I'm getting good at those. haha. I found that I have a really sore left foot! Ouch. I'm not sure if it's from using a shovel or from walking so long with an extra heavy body on those poor feet of mine. I'm hoping it's a slight bruise from the shovel and nothing more.

This is why we love those raspberries.

Here's the rose bush before I moved the chives.

And I bought two big pots of begonias that are out in the front flower bed. They are quite lovely and add a nice little pop of color out there, now that the spring bulbs have finished and the clematis vine is done. I have some irises I'm going to move out there into that bed, too. And some asparagus stems I'm going to put in water in a jar and see what happens. I couldn't bury all the root systems I dug up, so figured I'd give it a shot. I'm guessing the greenery will just grow, but it won't produce another spear. But we'll see, won't we?