Happy New Year’s Day to all. It is nice to start a new decade with a clean slate. A light blanket of snow fell overnight and the view on the prairie looked virgin white this morning. A beautiful way to start a new year.
It was brutal walking down to the girls today though as the wind was wicked. I made them stay inside today. I should have gone down early afternoon and let them out as the clouds rolled away and the wind died out. Hopefully tomorrow will be nice and they can get outside all day. They gave me 15 eggs when I went down this morning. Jim is doing chores this evening so I will see if he brings any more eggs up with him then.
We spent a quiet night at home. I worked the hot line for a couple of hours. Had one very hard call and asked the supervisor to take it over. I read the transcript this morning to see how it turned out and I’m not sure she did any better than I had been doing. One of those calls that I will always wonder what the rest of the story is. I handled three other calls that went OK. We do get an interesting mix of people that text in. You never know if you are going to get my mom is mean and she took away my phone or if they are suicidal or if they are mentally ill or something in between.
It has been another quiet day on the prairie. I took a nap this afternoon. I wasn’t feeling my best earlier and a nap helped. I felt like I had a hangover but I hadn’t drank anything last night. My headache is gone now and all is well.
Only did a little bit of knitting earlier. I’m sure I will knit more after dinner. I am almost out of one of the colors of yarn so will have to wait to finish the blanket until the yarn I ordered comes in. I will get started on making the hat and scarf someone asked me to make while I am waiting on the yarn to come in.
Got all the animals dosed with their flea and tic medication as well as heart guard for the dogs. That is always an adventure tracking them all down and making sure the dogs chew it up and eat theirs.
No plans for the weekend or into next week or that matter. I thinkJim is going to drive to Stillwater one day next week and return the same day or the next day. He needs to change cars so he can get the Honda tagged in KS and he wants to bring another big load of stuff. He is almost to the point of needing to rent a U-Haul and bringing a big load but he keeps putting it off. He can’t bring his big tools until he gets the renovations done in Stillwater but he can’t start building his shop here until he can bring his tools. He will get it all sorted out sooner or later.
We will have to make a trip to town sometime next week to get chicken feed. They are really eating lots of it right now. We are down to our last three buckets. I think the dogs will need another couple bags of food too. Kinda breaks the bank when I go buy critter feed.
I’ll probably get on the hot line again tonight for a bit. We were busy last night and will probably be so again tonight. I need to get a couple of good calls under my belt after having had the one last night I didn’t feel like I handled very well. Two different texters left sweet feedback for me last night. All texters are offered the chance to leave feedback but few ever do. It is a nice reward to see what they write and that in the moment it felt like you made a bit of a difference to them.
Grateful for the beautiful scenery of the day on the prairie, grateful for lots of quiet space today, and grateful the house was warm and dry today.