Surprise! Yesterday's high did not climb into the low 80s (F) as the forecast had been predicting. While the temp scooted around 79 (F) for most of the afternoon, there was a wind. Now, I'm not talking about the occasional breeze. Nope. We had winds from the west that did a good job of keeping the gnats at bay; I only got 2 bites.
And I did spend a bit of time outside cutting up branches yesterday afternoon. My neighbor across the street is letting me borrow a teeny, tiny Ceepuy chainsaw that's about 6 inches long. Let me tell you, that sucker is great for cutting up cleaning the branches so I can shove them into my wood chipper. Looking out the window from my writing desk, I can say with certainty that a dent was made in cleaning up my... well, cleanup. I have some chores to run this morning, but I'll be out again this afternoon.
I did postpone the ride I had scheduled for yesterday afternoon; too many other jobs are taking precedence. I'm only planning on doing the short upper-body workout this morning. I want to get this clean-up complete as soon as possible, and that means spending more time out back this afternoon. I texted this to my trainer, who replied that I'm probably getting more exercise doing this than if I were doing my full routines. I'm going to agree with him on this.
Everyday I'm harvesting more tomatoes. Today I'm going to make a pasta tomato salad which, hopefully will cover meals for today, tomorrow, and Sunday. Oh, and I'm also going to be making bread pudding. Yum. Yesterday's harvest.
