Hard work with great rewards!

[susandennis]

This is Ann working hard. The dude behind her with the shovel full of mulch is Jeff, my lawyer and our condo association president. It was a good morning but crap, yard work is hard! Tija who lives on the floor above ours and who owns the gym across the street was the head of our group which was one out of four. One group did alley cleanup, one group did graffiti removal, one group did drain unclogging and painting (a stencil that says to keep the drain clean for the fish). Our group did the median in front of our building.

There were 25 guys from the construction crew building the building outside my terrace which I thought was very cool. They were good guys, too. Really into it. A couple brought their kids to help and the kids did a great job.

It was fun and our median really does look really nice - cared for.

But, wow. I was not designed for manual labor. Whew. I dragged myself into the shower and then took me to Denny's. I had the most delicious sandwich. The service was slow which suited me fine because I was reading a particularly entertaining book. On the way home, my car swung into the drive thru at McDonald's and I was forced to get a chocolate milk shake.

I got home, turned on the ballgame and Ichiro - leading off - opened up the game with a nice little home run.

Nice.