I’m writing this post Sunday afternoon, just in case I’m not able to write more before my deadline.

The last two days have been strange. I have been beset by waves of tiredness. Part of it is we are dog-sitting for our neighbors. We’ve done this before. Rocky is now getting older (like us), and makes fewer demands on us than years ago. Still, there’s walking him. That forces me—and Lynda—to take him out. Yesterday the app on my new Samsung phone had discovered workouts amounting to over a mile.

I found myself exhausted by 4 p.m. yesterday, and today I was exhausted before leaving church. Yet, Saturday was a good day of accomplishment. I started with my weekly accounting (spreadsheet) for stock trading. I had a mistake somewhere, but was able to find and fix it. Next was going through books on my literature/writing bookshelf in the storeroom to see what I could get rid of. I brought a couple of dozen books up to the garage and inventoried them.

I’m working on transcribing letters from our years in Saudi Arabia in anticipation of putting them in a book for family members. Though similar to the project I did a couple of years ago with the letters from our Kuwait years, this is, I think, a bigger project, one that I’m tackling at a slower pace. On Saturday I transcribed 5 or 6 letters from 1982. Alas, the 1982 pile doesn’t look any smaller than it did two weeks ago.

I took Rocky outside to drink up the sun while I did some yardwork. That included transplanting one tiny evergreen tree from where it shouldn’t be to a place where I hope it will grow. One down, three more to transplant. I also was able to pull weeds from front yard, staying ahead of the main weed growing season.

In the afternoon, after yardwork, I was able to take an hour to write a section in the Bible study I’m writing. That was sort of unexpected, as I wasn’t sure I’d get to write at all yesterday.

We began moving a few things back in place in our master bathroom. The water remediation work in that part of the house is done but we put off moving our stuff back due to the work involved. But we got a little done.

The evening was dedicated to studying to teach Life Group today (Sunday). I don’t know that taught a very good class, but at least I was reasonably well prepared.

So that was a fairly full day. I suppose the tiredness was earned, not a result of sickness or something unexplained. Today was less busy, as a Sunday should be. I just got back from walking Rocky almost a mile, and we’re both tired. I’m glad we have enough leftovers that I don’t have to cook.

Possibly I’ll revisit this in the morning before it posts, and see if anything should be added.