Am I getting a cold?

 5:45 am - Monday - September 2nd - LPG&RVR - 55° F, humidity 50%, wind 5 mph out of the south by southeast.....clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 84° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were volunteering as docents at Cape Blanco Lighthouse located between Port Orford and Bandon on the southern Oregon Coast.....

I woke up Sunday morning feeling achy with a tickle in my throat.  "Gee, I think I'm getting a cold" I heard myself saying....neither TLE nor I have had a cold since 2018 when we worked at Amazon the last time.  I felt sluggish all day, but Sundays are easy days anyway, so I toughed it out.  As I have done in the past I started taking Zicam, and it seems to have arrested any progress in the cold, but as I write this morning I am still feeling achy, but not as much, and sluggish, but not as much.  As I have written previously, neither TLE nor I have had the flu since 2013, and that was me.  I think I've had 3 previous colds over the past 12 years, and each time we were working at Amazon.

At any rate, I staged 10 carts to begin the day, and over the course of the day we ended up renting 20 carts....not bad for a Sunday when folks are heading back to their workaday lives.  I made numerous trips around the golf course as marshal, and had to, again, warn several customers to keep their carts on the green grass....this has been one of those weekends.

By 3:30 pm I was completely 'out of gas', but I was able to get 16 of the 20 rentals washed and put away.  Next I headed for home, took a long, hot shower then sat down in my recliner to take a much needed nap.  TLE arrived home around 5:15 pm and woke me up....not on purpose....the door opening woke me up.  She made me tomato soup, and a grilled cheese sandwich which was just what the doctor ordered.  I took 4 Zicam in all Sunday, along with regular doses of Tylenol.  I was in bed by 9 pm, and slept very good.  My nose has stopped running for the present.

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