Care to Chat: Loop de Loop

I have this damn list. On Monday it was just fine. I listed the housework. I completed the list. I do housework week in and week out, it's no big deal. All done. There wasn't much on the list to complete (in or around the house) on Tuesday through to Thursday but Friday through to Sunday is a whole different story. It's only been two weeks since my amazing garden makeover with the help of my extended family. Thank goodness for them. Eight people all working together to transform my disastrous gardens to a magazine makeover. Thank you to my lovely family.
Back to the list; it included painting the gate (not done), spraying the weeds (yes, done this morning), preparing the shed and laundry doors for painting (began but no where near completion) and there were a few obscure things listed which I have chosen to forget. Oh, one of them was to move the mulch from the front to the back but I'm waiting for the weeds to die first.
I had hoped for an hour or more for a snooze this afternoon while watching a movie. Its 37degrees Celsius today (98.6 F) in Perth. After our cold start to Spring we have this super hot day followed by a week of cooler weather.
I was up at 5am this morning. After Merv's fall which injured his leg and curtailed his confidence I have found getting him up to go to the toilet at 5am is working well. No more wet beds. I usually go back to bed in hope of further sleep but today I had this most crazy plan.
A cup of tea followed by weed spraying while the day had just began. There was no wind and spraying seemed a great idea. Then I grabbed the super high ladder from the shed and armed with screwdriver, hammer and a box cutter I prised off the shade cloth remnants from the front pergola. The shade cloth perished years ago leaving the hammered in staples, rusty nails and bits of annoying shade cloth scraps. Hoping it's a good idea to replace the shade cloth this year to keep the house cooler I remove all the bits and scraps. Will it keep down the quote to replace it? Probably not, but it looks so much better now.
As I'm only half awake I remind myself to remove the hammer from the top of the ladder and slide the blade back inside the box cutter before I move the ladder to the next spot. I remember most of the time but I witnessed my flying hammer several times which fortunately missed both my head and my feet. I even kept my balance on the ladder and didn't fall off while prising those rusty nails out of the pergola frame, ten feet above the ground. As the sun grew hotter I had completed most of the prising and pulling with only a few metres left. I convinced myself to give myself a much needed break.
I watered my amazing garden and went to the shop for the paper and milk before getting Merv up for the day. He's watching the cricket and I'm getting ready for Mel's birthday celebration tomorrow.
I check my house improvement list. There's a whole heap of things which are partially finished and some which are put on hold. I will roll them over for the next week. They will still be there waiting!
Though I tried to have a snooze this afternoon I didn't even feel tired. A knock on the door in the heat of the afternoon and there stood a young man wearing a Red Cross T-shirt. Before offering a donation I offer him a large glass of cold water which he readily accepted. He had no sunhat on and he said he had a rather large head. I looked at his head and took the opportunity to offer him the sun cap I was wearing this morning. It expands at the back. He happily took it. "Please keep it," I said. I offered him $5 donation but he was after a commitment of $1 per day. I shook my head, pity I couldn't just give him $5.
Oh. back to my library book. It wasn't as compelling as the first novel. I would go as far to say it edges on the side of a Barbara Cartland. Oh dear but a little light reading is just what the doctor ordered!