My guests arrived just after the thunderstorm ended last night. They had driven in from Colorado and hit the storm in Hays and had to drive in it the entire way. Mother Nature welcomed them to the prairie with open arms though and gave us a beautiful sunset in the west and a full double rainbow in the east. One of them had never been to Kansas before. She is impressed with the view.
I got up at 7:00 this morning and have been doing food prep ever since. I don’t have many items completely fixed but have all the veggies and fruit chopped and ready to go when I start putting things together. I still need to make one of the soups for tomorrow and then the prep will be done.
I have run the dishwasher twice today and will have one more load before we have dinner. Dinner dishes will take two more loads.
Dinner tonight is at 6:00. I still need to put the turkey in the oven, finish making the dressing, and roast the veggies. Pies are made as is the fruit salad.
They decided they want breakfast ready by 7:00 in the morning so I will need to be up before 6:00 to get it ready. I’m making a Crustless spinach Quiche for breakfast that takes 45 minutes to cook. I have most of the rest of the breakfast items prepped so it won’t take long to throw them together.
I’m tired this afternoon. I didn’t sleep very well last night. Thinking by Sunday afternoon I will be lucky to still be standing. Almost deciding that doing retreats is too much work! What usually happens though is when the guests arrive and I get to meet some amazing women I change my mind and forget how much work they are to do. I am so enjoying the company of the two facilitators.
Rest time is over. Time to get back to food prep. Trusting I can pull off five meals without a major disaster. All is well on the hot prairie today.