It is amazing, how much happier I've been, since having a small stroke, and perhaps not being as "sharp as a tack" anymore.  I just laugh when people ask me number-answer questions, like "what time is it?  what date is it?  how much money do you have in your account?"  Hoo-haw!  I don't know...if it's important, I'll look it up!  And it will be gone again, in a flash.

It stopped raining today, it's been raining for 2 or 3 days, and I went out to the garage and cleaned up the other side; by that I mean all the debris that was there, that hadn't been classified as garbage before.  It is, now!  It was just buried, for years, under the leaves.  So it is all stacked by the driveway for Mr. John to take away.  All of it is his stuff, long forgotten, another load to the dump.  And then I raked those leaves away in big piles into the woods.  My next chore will be digging a trench along the drip line of the roof and grading that to slope away from the garage.  Then, and only then, will I be ready to paint that side. 

I am so happy to be able to go about my regular business of getting things done.  I have 6 tomato plants in buckets that can be brought in and possibly get a few for over winter, but I am not counting on it.  It would just be nice, that's all.  I'm allowing myself the rest of this month to finish painting the garage and cleaning up around the outside of it.  Next month, the firewood!

And I think the credit card companies have finally had things their way for long enough.  I am calling the bank to see about getting a loan to pay them off, except for the two I actually need.  I will try to buy a new car, sooner than later.  It's just possible, if I can get any cooperation from the banks, etc.  If not, oh well.  I tried. 

My health is improving a lot lately, since taking the herbal supplements that always make me feel so much better.  So onward and forward, and all that.