No one talks much about what a typical day for an active 85-year-old male might look like. This blog relates what I have been up to (yesterday) in a day.
Readers of this blog know that my wife and I live in Pecan Plantation near Granbury, TX near Fort Worth. You also know that we maintain 15 flower beds and a well-kept lawn. Today, the bags of mulch/manure that we ordered from our local greenhouse came in. I first hitched up our trailer, then journed about 20 minutes north where we loaded it up with 60, yes 60 bags of the good stuff. Along with this, we loaded 21 bags of pine bark mulch into our X5.
Upon return home, we had to figure out how to get the trailer back into our single-car garage up over a 2″ or so concrete burm in the floor. I ended up using two clamps to clamp 2x2s to the back of the trailer and pushed it in with our ZTR mower. Meanwhile, I noticed on our local Nextdoor that a fellow resident of Pecan Plantation advertised a free Craftsman 10″ radial arm saw. I jumped on this, contacted him, and made arrangements to pick up the saw later in the afternoon.
Had lunch and left to pick up the saw. It’s heavy. The guy who gave us the saw was nice enough to deliver it to our house on his trailer. It is now in the garage. As you can see from the lead picture, it lacks the wooden table but that can be replaced. Let our son know what we had and it turns out he needs one for his new house construction project so everyone wins.
My typical day will finish off with a shower, doing my manual 2 liters of static fill, supper, a little TV, and then on the Cycler. Wake up in the morning to our loving golden retriever Dickens – lead picture – and repeat.
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