Plugging away here

It’s now over a week and I still haven’t shaken this bug totally. I have now moved on to the blocked ears and coughing stage,. And I still have some tonsillitis although it seems to have improved a bit today. The problem with the blocked ears is the my hearing become quite poor and I can’t understand people. Last night I went off to the tai chi class and the assistant instructor was working with our group as he had none of the beginner to teach. I like him but he speaks very softly at the best of times and I was struggling to understand him.

Meanwhile my germs have infected the rest of the family, The Scientist hasn’t been hit too hard as yet but he may suffer as much if it drags on. Both boys are in the middle of nasty sore throat and Game Fanatic is coughing even worse than usual. You’d think it was still winter with all of us getting sick. And the weather has been close to winter-like too, with relatively low temperatures for November. Of course, before we know it we will be sweltering again.

I reinstalled Windows 7 on my computer the night before last after having issues for months since my last installation (when the motherboard or cpu died). The good news is everything looks all shiny and new and I have cleared out heaps from the computer. The down side is this hasn’t exactly fixed the problem. I suspect my fairly old hard drives may be part of the problem and it might be worth a change in the near future.

A couple weeks ago (or more) we bought some tomato plants at our local supermarket to plant in our large above ground planter thing. They have been sitting on our outdoor table for all this time and one of them was nearly dead due to the stem partially breaking and also lack of consistent moisture. I had the planter partially ready to use but needed some more compost and some chicken manure to finish it up. I went off to our local mega hardware shop down the road and got the items I needed plus another regular tomato plant and a grape tomato. I bought some basil seedling to plant with them, came home and got it all planted out within half an hour. And I didn’t really get too dirty either, which was surprising.

Obviously something was wrong if I wasn’t dirty after gardening for a while. We had a fair bit of rain earlier in the week but the past couple days have been dry and mostly sunny. And all that tall grass has been right in my face, waiting to be cut…so I pulled out the lawnmower and finally got most of that cut down. It only took a few hours with all the breaks I had to take. We seem to have far more space out there now than we did before. At the end of all that, I was quite dirty and had to wash my hair for the second day in a row as it couldn’t be avoided. Now I’m quite tired and sore but it feels good to have all that work accomplished. And now I actually want to be in the back yard. Except for the area just outside the door where we still have a mess and there is still a bit of wildness. I didn’t have the energy to clear that out today so might tackle it next week some time.

Now if I can just get certain sick young guys to just go to sleep, I can toddle off to bed and rest the weary body. And hope I haven’t set back my recovery.