An Agenda Worthy of a Monday

By a working person's standards, today was nothing unusual. But for a retired person like moi, it was a busy, productive, and satisfying day. And it's going to get better!
Here's how my day went so far:

• 8:00 a.m. Got long overdue haircut at Eastwood Barber Shop. Saw Mike, Justin, Lee, and Shorty, all of whom have cut my hair at one time or another. Good times.
• 8:50 a.m. Stopped at Eastwood Service Station to inquire with Don about recycling tires. A dollar a pop sounds good. More about this later.
• 9:05 a.m. Lowe's Home Improvement. Got 40 pounds of birdseed, 5 gallons of rooftar for storage building roof, replacement handle for bathroom louver window, and some screw in light sockets with pull-chains for the garage and porch.
• 9:20 a.m. Staples. Walked in, recycled ink cartridges. Saw storage tubs on sale, from $11.99 down to $4.99. Bought two--with my $9.00 Staples Rewards Coupon. More Rewards coming soon and I've already been scouting how to use them.
• 9:45 a.m. Dollar Tree. Bought the off-brand corn chips for about one-third the price of Fritos.
• 10:00 a.m. Got to Best Buy just as they were opening. Recycled batteries, monitor for Jennifer's old Gateway computer (college) and her Brother word processor from high school.
• 10:45 a.m. Arrived home. Unloaded booty. Checked messages. Called Atlanta to check in with family. Set up ladder at back of house and cleaned wire covering on smokestack.
• 11:20 a.m. Moved ladder to front of house. Did touch-up painting of rust spots and streaks on tin roof.
• 12:00 noon Ate lunch. One PBJ, BBQ corn chips (off brand from Fred's), almonds, a Clementine (small tangerine-type fruit), and one chocolate covered cherry.
• 12:40 p.m. Moved ladder to garage/storage building. Swept leaves, limbs, and pine straw off. Spread five gallons of roof tar on areas deemed "most likely to leak."
• 1:20 p.m. Used a generous amount of baby oil to scrub most of tar off of my person. My work clothes were a disaster, but I had one more nasty job to do, so postponed changing.
• 1:30 Serviced and cranked tiller successfully.
• 1:45 p.m. Loaded 15 junk tires to take to Eastwood to recycle. Many were from previous owner's junkpile back in the woods but others were part of a massive "tire swing" (with numerous tires held together by a massive rope years ago). Filled the back of my old faithful '73 Mercury Montego wagon (it holds more than many pick-up trucks). It was absolutely necessary to change clothes before going to Eastwood, even though I knew I'd get those clothes dirty unloading the tires.
• 2:15 p.m. Delivered tires to Eastwood, said "Good riddance" to them, and filled up two gas cans. It's almost time for tilling the garden and cutting grass.
• 3:00 p.m. Got home about the same time as Judy. We reviewed our equally busy days. I finally got cleaned up-- no small task.
• 4:00 p.m. Blogged and reminded myself I would have gotten all of these things done back when I was teaching, but they would have taken all my spare time for several days. And there wasn't much "spare" time.

Well, I told you the best was yet to come. Still ahead is dinner with Amanda, Brianna, and Joy. Leaving soon, so that's all for today. More pictures soon!