Well, I’m still not feeling very well. I feel absolutely horrible in the mornings and at night, and get to feeling a little bit better across the middle part of the day. What’s up with that? If I’m drinking something hot or cold, or have a Chloraseptic in my mouth, my throat is bearable. If not (read: the other 23 hours of the day), then my throat is killing me. I hope that two things speed my recovery – 1) all the over-the-counter medicine I’m taking (tylenol, chloraseptic, sinus medicine and that nasty gargling with warm salty water thing my mother always made me do), and 2) changing the air filter. I know that sounds funny, but I have noticed a pattern the last several months. I start getting stopped up and then get a sore throat or sinus thing going when our allergen air filter gets clogged up and needs changing. So, I got Tim to change it out today and I predict in about 36-48 hours I will start feeling better. I swear, as weird as it sounds, I get sick every time it gets dirty and clogged.
Poor Tim is really suffering today. I don’t feel like going anywhere, so I’m resting and staying here. He doesn’t do well with “sitting around the house” as he calls it. I told him he could go somewhere, anywhere he wanted, but he hasn’t taken me up on that offer. As a consequence, I think he’s fairly miserable. 🙁
He went back on-call Friday night and it didn’t take long – they called twice last night after midnight with problems. I have no idea how long he was up working, I went back to sleep. Bad, unsupportive spouse.
Oh, and in addition to everything else Tim did for us yesterday around here (including cleaning out the garage and getting rid of all the wood shavings– yeah!), he built me a small trellis for our climbing rose. We were looking for one a couple of weekends ago and most of the ones we liked were wood, but they were 25-30 bucks. Tim said, I have some scraps at the house, I can make one for nothing. After all, we hope in a couple of years that the rose grows and fills up the trellis anyway, so it won’t matter that much how it looks. I think it looks good though! It’s a custom design – he built it to go on top of the one that came with the rose, that we planted with it, because it already had several tendrils wrapped around the existing one. Click the -More- link to check it out.
Very impressive Tim! You could start a woodworking business!
Wow, it seems that you have your own little “Handy Man”. I wish that I could get Mark to start doing some of his woodworking. I think it’s really good to have a hobby.
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