Morning Surprises

 

    Every night when I wake up in the middle of my sleep, it takes me some time to get back to my slumber, so during that awakening, I often think about the upcoming day, and what jobs I will do.  

    Last night I decided I would finish my work in the greenhouse.  I have been blocking places where tree roots have been getting into my plant bed and sucking out all of the water in the soil.  I have been blocking the cracks with small copper sheets, because I remember hearing in a university botany class, that copper was deadly to roots. 

    During my waking period, I also thought about the square I was going to paint, which was going to be simpler, and easier than the ones I have been painting.  Lastly, I thought about what I was going to blog about.

    With my day planned, I eventually fell back to sleep, but when morning came and Kona woke me up and I looked outside, I was surprised and somewhat dismayed to see the ground covered with 5 inches (13 cm) of snow.  That changed everything I had planned. 

    Immediately after breakfast, I decided that I should get out the snowblower, so I could use up the fuel that was in the tank of the snowblower, so I wouldn’t have to drain in later in the spring when I store the snowblower.  

    I started the snowblower and began clearing the driveway.  I was working on the top of the drive, up by the road, when suddenly, the cable that turns the snow chute broke.  That put an end to my snowblowing, so I walked the machine back to the shop, and finished my driveway clearing with a snow shovel.  I will have to deal with my broken snowblower cable some other day.  (That is it trailing out from the snowblower on the bottle left of the photo.)

    When I came back into the house, tired from my snow shoveling, I decided I would take my blood pressure.  I am always curious and surprised about it being so low after I exercise.  It seems like it ought to be higher as I work my muscles, breathe harder, and make my heart beats faster, but it is always lower when my heart rate goes up.  It was the same today, my blood pressure was a lower than normal (115/72) and my heart beat was higher than usual (68).

    Anyway, the snowfall threw all of my planning for the day out the window:  No greenhouse work, no painting, and this blog is different than the one I had planned.  Do things ever work out the way you planned?

You can see my paintings at:  davidmarchant2.ca