Life is so interesting!

Life is so interesting. Everything happens at once! We just have to pay attention.

Yesterday was interesting - the whole family was working on the house & the yard. My lady, despite being sick, felt invigorated by the work. My kid sprayed and scrubbed some chairs. Pool work, picking up branches, dog poop, detritus, etc. Mowing the grass with a manual mower. That last bit is my favorite, but I'm going to have to give it up. It takes four hours to do with that little push, spiral-blade affair, but a powered lawn power would eat it up in 45 minutes. Too bad - it stinks, and tortures my eardrums. But I just don't have the time anymore.

I worked hard, and felt tired, but when it came time to do Jazzercise, I felt like I hadn't worked at all. I came back stronger! Great - consolation of age - I can't get any younger, but I can get thinner and stronger. The instructor nick-named me "Royalicious". Ah, vanity.

By coincidence, my percussion instructor in college nick-named me "Roy Aloysius", so it was a bit of synchronicity.

Then back home, and, with a phone call to my sister-in-law, the evening was done - too pooped to mow any more. That'll have to wait 'till tonight.

R.I.P. Hal David. I'm listening to "I Say a Little Prayer". Try counting it sometime, next time you listen.