Change in the Weather

We had another beautiful day, but it appears from the forecast that we are heading into a major change.  The high today was forecast to be 60F degrees but I think it was higher than that....86F degrees in Denver.  Tomorrow's high is only expected to be 37F degrees and there is a 70% chance of snow.  I spent part of yesterday and part of today moving wood from that pile that I bought in February that had to be dumped in the deepest snow we'd received all winter to a stack I'm making against the privacy fence.  My neighbor lent me a wheelbarrow and it has gone much faster since.

This was where I left things yesterday afternoon.  I had to quit.  My back was really hurting...

And this is where I stopped today...

...so I'm making some progress.  I stopped today and took Dixie, who was waiting patiently...

...to Nederland.  We stopped by the post office and, I could hardly believe it, but I finally received the settlement check from Sears, dated February 21.  The stub on the check, dated February 20,  is addressed to my physical address where the claims adjuster knew I did not receive mail and it had a cover sheet, dated March 2,  indicating it should be shipped to a P.O. Box that bore no resemblance to my P.O. Box number at the Nederland Post Office.  What a botch-up from beginning to end.  And, of course, this is April 1, so this may not be the end...

Then I dropped off at the library's drop box that Elizabeth George novel Believing the Lie that I had finished by Saturday morning and we went to the spring for water.  When we got back, I had lunch and read for a bit out on the deck then had a long phone conversation with my brother in Tacoma during which we discussed the economy (Somewhere along the line in the last couple of weeks I read a neat little 147-page book by Robert Reich called Aftershock:  The Next Economy & America's Future that made the other Aftershock book make a lot more sense); the Teapot Dome Scandal (we neither one could remember exactly what that was about, but I found he was much closer than me once I did my on-line research.  I somehow had this mixed up with Tammany Hall...not); and the difference between what we enjoy reading and real literature (After a 40-year hiatus I'm tackling Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet again. I think I'm also going to have to go on-line to get an answer to this last one as I think my immediate response..."If it's hard to read, it's literature"...probably isn't quite right on). 

I thought about transferring more wood, but after sitting out there in the heat for two hours, I couldn't keep my eyes open, so came inside and had a nap.  I think I'm still tired from Friday.

Did you have a productive yet restful Sunday?  Teddee