a make-up day off

For years, my day off has been Monday. There are some short-comings for a day off being Monday, especially when the kids are all in school. Another not-so-obvious bummer is the fact that many holidays are observed on Mondays. That means my day of is a holiday. I've always been told that I can take another day off during the week, but the rest of the week is usually so packed that another day off simply doesn't work.

But today, I took my day off to work on getting the garden ready. I cannot believe how much work is going in to getting ready to garden. I cut sod, moved sod, planted sod, moved and re-moved railroad ties (pinched my thumb between 2 of 'em in the process--yikes) and shoveled/wheelbarrowed a truckload of top soil. And there's still more work to be done before we're ready to plant.

I am bushed. It feels good to be tired from work, though. It's a good tired. But it's still a "tired" tired.