My Tireless Retirement - Week 22

 

Hello my friends and, if you are in the United States, I also want to wish you a Happy Labor Day.  I hope you are spending the day doing something wonderful and taking it a little bit easy.  Labor Day is supposed to be a day off to rest, but I've often used it as an extra day to work on tasks or projects.  Now that I'm retired however, that seems to be much less of an issue for me.  August was a busy month for me right up to the very last day so I decided to take it easy this past weekend and today too so I can have a little R&R.  No shame in that, in fact, I strongly recommend.  Downtime is a good thing.

 

Just a few items on sale

Last week I cooked, cleaned, did laundry, entertained, worked on some sewing projects, had a doctor appointment, did some grocery shopping and even managed to get a few things on my quarterly checklist completed.  Oh, and I celebrated a birthday too.  I'm now 58 years young.  And my girls completely forgot about it, which tells me they are incredibly busy and overwhelmed with life right now.  Nonetheless, I was still adequately spoiled and enjoyed a very nice day going out to breakfast, opening presents and having a wonderful dinner prepared for me.  There was wine too.  And chocolate mousse!

 

Someone wants to make sure I don't get bored 😆

It has been unusually hot, hot, hot here and it has been like that for most of the summer which has wreaked some havoc on my poor garden and flowerbeds.  I've lost a few plants recently and my garden pretty much dried up and stopped growing.  No amount of watering seemed to help.  I've pretty much pulled up everything in the veggie garden except for the tomatoes which aren't doing very well either, sadly.  I'll probably pull those up pretty soon too and decide if I will try again next year or not.  Gardening is definitely not one of those things I excel at.

 

I may have rehabbed this poor doll
Let me know if you want to see what I did with her

I've had some company lately and we ate fairly well this past week starting out with a nice pot of soup and a salad.  I took the leftover pot roast from the week before and used it to make some delicious pasta sauce which I served over leftover pasta I had squirreled away in the freezer several weeks ago.  Corndogs and tater tots even made it on the menu one night when we were too tired to cook.  My birthday dinner was the best though.  We each had a salmon fillet and shared a grilled rib eye steak with green beans as the side.  All leftovers got eaten up too so we had no food waste.

 

My wonderful birthday dinner

It wasn't my most productive week, but it was a good one.  I hope you all enjoyed a nice week and the heat isn't too bad where you live.  Ready for fall?  I think I am.