When:  Friday–Late Afternoon- 4/6/2018

Weather: Mid-80’s with clouds and eventual thunderstorms

Today was a convenient day to come up with excuses.  In my whiniest voice, “But, it was so humid and my back hurt.  I had to plant the mail order plants that arrived yesterday before they died.”  It turned out leaving the house to walk on my normal route would have been a bad idea.  While the hour by hour weather made it look like no rain was going to happen, I chose to not walk anyway.  The thunderstorms arrived in the middle of my planting.  Its full fervor was not released until plants were in the ground and watered in.

In addition to that, the house was empty of any fellow dwellers.  They were on college visits, at softball games, driving back to their college campus, and at weddings in cold places.  I don’t mean to brag, but an empty house does present a perfect opportunity to take a nap.  The original plan was to treat me to dinner.  I settled for something less appetizing but far more convenient at the house.  I justified my frugalness by realizing the dent in the entertainment budget my wife was likely inflicting due to the pre-wedding activities.

Tomorrow promises even fouler weather.  I plan on walking. The visual “candy” on the walk will almost certainly be minimal.  No one likes to take a walk in cold weather was spring is supposed to have arrived.  It is liked far less in Texas.  I am already plotting what I might write about to fill tomorrow’s posting. <sigh>