Haus und Garten

A long successful day lies behind me.
I got up very early at 5:10 and ran four miles in 30 minutes, which is a pretty good time for me, especially because it was very humid and exceptionally warm: 22 C at this time of the day is even for Florida a little unusual.
Anyway, I had to hurry up to get my run in because I had to meet Carole at 7:30 in Viera to go to enrollments with her.
To get my production started she let me write some of the business, so this is actually the first time I’ve earned some money – except the $75 that I won in the Omaha Half Marathon – since I’ve quit my job in California.
We were very busy driving around from place to place because everybody wanted to get their policies issued this year and everybody waited until the last minute.
Carole dropped me back off at my truck in the early afternoon and I got home by 3 o’clock. Jon was already home and after a quick sandwich for lunch we started working in the house and garden. I cleaned the kitchen and swept all of our stone floor while Jon cut back the overgrown bushes outside of our guest room. I also cleaned out the pond a bit and took out algae and dead leaves that had fallen into it. Unfortunately I didn’t see any of our goldfish. They’re probably all dead now, the poor things. We put more water in the pond as it hasn’t really rained a lot lately and the water level was way too low. Maybe another reason for the fish dying?
For supper we made a good Mega Meatball Pizza and Zippy Italian Popcorn. The popcorn wasn’t that good, but I had also got some spinach salad that we ate with the pizza.
The kitchen is really nice and clean now, but the garden still needs more work. We might get some more done tomorrow in the morning, but I also have to pack for the 50k that I’m running on Sunday. We’ll be leaving town tomorrow afternoon and I’d still like to go ride Brownie before that, so we probably better get up early to get everything done.

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