Our big adventure of the day was going to the big grocery store to get ingredients for all the guests that are coming in tonight and tomorrow night. The store was busy as usual and it took a bit of time to get checked out. We had a lot of sacks to carry in when we got back to our cabin. Traffic was heavy going to the store and coming home. It took a while to get through town to get to the store and back to our cabin.
We cleaned today. We had to request a different vacuum as the one we had wasn’t sucking up much. The replacement one works much better. Jim hand scrubbed the kitchen floor and I cleaned the two bathrooms. We got the counters and table cleared off. The cabin feels more spacious to me now.
Last night I handled five calls on the Hot Line. None of them felt especially rewarding to me. Some nights it is more fun than others and last night was not one of the fun nights. They weren’t bad or hard calls. The texters just didn’t engage much and it was hard to know what they wanted. One gave me a STOP which means I can’t respond any more. I never know why that happens or if I said something wrong. I am learning to just let it go and know what ever happened was what was to be.
I got a bit more sleep last night than I did the night before. I laid down for a bit this afternoon and had just fallen asleep when I got a phone call. Someone was looking for a room for Saturday night at my Airbnb. They were coming to town for a wedding tomorrow night that is expecting 250 guests. No way would I have let them come stay with me even if I had been home.
I finished reading my fifth book on this trip. I haven’t started number six yet. I have some knitting I may do next instead of reading.
The electricity keeps blinking off today. It has done that about five times. We had to have them come reset the internet once today. Glad I am not taking calls on the Hotline as that throws the calls back into the queue. The person that gets them can throw it back to me but then I don’t get credit for handling the full call even when I end up doing so.
Our guests tonight won’t be here until around 8:00. I am fixing tacos for them so it will be an easy meal to fudge the time with if needed. I will get everything but the meat fixed ahead of time and when I know they are close I will start the meat. It will be an easy meal to fix and serve. We got some ice cream and chocolate sauce for dessert along with some cookies.
We stopped at Housekeeping on our way back from the grocery store and got a griddle so we can make pancakes for breakfast. I also got a crock pot that I need for tomorrow night’s dinner.
We may go on a walk this evening before our guests get here. We didn’t walk much yesterday. I am not very motivated to get out and walk as it is warm here today and my legs are still sore from climbing the mountain Wednesday. We will see what happens. It would probably do my legs good to get out and stretch them and walk a bit.
Time is already going by too quickly. Our four weeks here are flying by. Next week we are going to drive into Boulder. I have a couple of things I need from a store there. Jim wanted a couple things from a different store. A week from tomorrow some good friends are coming it to stay with us for a couple of days. After that we will only have one more week to go.
It is so nice to be able to relax and not feel like I should be doing something productive. I keep thinking of all the things we have to do at my house and at Jim’s house. It all seems to wait for us to get to it.
I haven’t heard from the Tractor Store about my inquiry into purchasing chickens. Next time I go to town and have dependable cell service I will have to call them. Sure would like to get a delivery of baby chickens around the first of August. Not sure what the lead time is so need to get things started before I get home.
It is another beautiful day in the mountains. It reached the mid 80’s today so it is a bit warmer than it has been. I’m sure by evening it will cool back down and I will be wishing it was a tad warmer. We have the fireplace cleaned out and a fire laid for lighting later tonight.
Grateful the grocery store trip is done and things are put away, grateful for guests that are coming in tonight and tomorrow night, and grateful for this quiet, relaxing time.