6.01.2006

feeling the heat

it's hot outside and humid to boot. welcome to the south. the humidity is what gets you. every year i forget how it makes me feel. then there's usually some day in may when it just hits like a ton of bricks. when it gets like this, it zaps all of the life out of me. i mean, i'm already kind of a slow mover, but the heat makes me doubly slow. that's especially unfortunate for my wife who just runs circles around me.

we cleaned out a shed behind our house over the memorial day weekend. it was filled (i mean totally packed) with wood scraps, cardboard boxes and a few pieces of aluminum siding. most of this stuff was left in the shed when we bought the house, but it has taken us a year and a half to actually get up the courage to clean it out. it wasn't fun. when we finally removed the debris, we found a rather large hole probably around 18 inches in diameter. i'm not sure what kind of animal would dig a hole that big and i don't want to find out. we just filled it in with the hope that the animal won't come back. while we cleaned i had to take numerous breaks because of the heat and my allergies were acting up. in the process kelly did most of the work. i must say i felt pretty bad about it because the project was my idea. i don't know where she gets the energy. i tried to get her to take a break (so that i wouldn't feel so bad whimping out) but she just kept working. i wish i had that kind of energy.

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