05/19/2011 01:49
My Exhausting Day
It feels so good to be home and relaxing where it is warm and dry.
My day started OK—for the first 20 minutes. I had just settled in to have breakfast when the power went out. The only good thing about it was that I had not yet taken a shower, so my hair wasn't wet. By the time I had to leave for work, I still had no electricity, so it's a good thing I hadn't planned to use the hairdryer.
Gathered my wild hair into a ponytail, put on a floppy hat, and called it ready for work. As I headed out the door, the electricity came back on. Nice, but too late.
Things were going pretty well. We even had a little sun now and then. And then the rain came in, and it got chillier. It rained for a while, and then it started to hail, thankfully for just a few minutes, while we all held our breaths, wondering if the perennials were going to be devastated. Luckily, the hail stayed small. By the time it ended, though, I was very damp and very cold.
I was able to hang in there until it was time to go home.
However, I didn't get much walking or activity in, because I spent most of the day standing in one place, cleaning plants. I would have liked to move a lot more.