It is often on Thursday that I feel very tired.  It is hard to get motivated to plan lessons for tomorrow, and the urge to sleep or otherwise waste an evening is strong.

However, I did get up early and walk today.  That was before the feet really started hurting (they've been hurting to various degrees all week, but today it was bad enough to take out the big guns--the prescription antiinflammatories).
Once I took them it took a couple of hours for the pain to recede, but recede it did eventually, and I was able to hobble through the day.  Now they are starting to bother me again, but I plan to sit most of the evening.

I don't mean to complain though.  It was a really good and pretty productive day.  We did lessons this morning, and then worked in the garden.  I got a lot of weeds pulled at the bottom of the garden (yard for Americans), and exposed the two and only two healthy leaves of rhubarb.  Mind you those two leaves are more than I got last year!  My husband potted the tomato plants this year--in hopes of getting them in position of the most sun our shady garden gets.  He put them on that black ground cover on top of where the gout weed grows--we hope that will discourage it from growing back.  I also found my lilac bush--a gift from the VON when I got my blood pressure taken at a clinic in the mall about three years ago.  It is getting much bigger, but hasn't bloomed yet. (The lilacs are amazing this year--really blooming!)

My dear husband and the children also planted the garden--broccoli and cauliflower, and some herbs, marigolds, and lots of beans.  We know to watch the plants more closely this year, as last year they got eaten by caterpillars.
The yard looks lovely.  All I want now is to get a couple of hanging baskets of sun-loving flowers to hang in the front of the house.  (I love our closed-in porch, however it is the home of my husband's library--in boxes, and it doesn't look nice.) 

We have been permitted by our "principal" to drop to half days of school for the next month or so.  We'll alternate between morning and afternoon subjects while keeping math going every day.  The days are so lovely now, and I think we have cabin fever--needing to get out and enjoy the good weather while we have it.  Hopefully I will also be able to work on some projects too.