A busy day was had

The graphic above tells a joking tale about my main accomplishment today, though there was a bit more too it. In fact, I was busy enough that I didn’t have enough time to do the post I’d planned for today. Not for the first—or last—time.

The graphic is one of those caricature things that Facebook promotes, and I have no idea why they do. The avatar is seldom all that realistic, but the main issue for me is that they seem unnecessarily silly. On the other hand, as someone who has made being unnecessarily silly part of his brand, it kinda fits.

What it refers to is, of course, the fact that I—once again—cleared the convolvulus from the raingarden out front. Ordinarily, I do this right before I mow so the mower can reduce it mulch, but this time there was too much. It has been “some time” since my last major cleanout, with only a littler minor culling this summer.

We’ve had a lot of rain lately, so weeds in general have had a wonderful time, and for my lawn that meant the weeds had yet again sent up flower stalks (with no flowers yet), but it was enough to make it look untidy.

After cleaning out the raingarden, I used the line trimmer around the edges out front until that ran out, then I grabbed the mower and mowed out front. That was it for today.

My plan is that tomorrow I’ll do the back, after refilling the filament in the line trimmer. Splitting the task in two was the only logical thing, really—and not just because I wasn’t in the mood to wrangle the line trimmer. The fact is, I wasn’t into any of it, and it was sheer force of will and bloody-minded determination that got me through the front—and then it promptly gave out.

I knew two things. First, all the rain we’ve had lately will make the grass (weeds) grow well, and also that the front would soon look untidy. No one but me and Leo sees the back, so if for some reason I don’t get it done tomorrow, oh well, I guess (though I probably will get it done).

The other motivation is that the monthly goal on my Apple watch this month is to close my Exercise Ring four times, and if I split the mowing over two days, I’d get the final two rings I needed for the month. Just working the system.

And that was my day. This evening was just watching TV, being too tired to do anything else. That, too is not for the first—or last—time. But I did mange to solve a project-related problem, so there’s that.

Despite everything, a busy day was had.