What a wonderful day on the prairie. Finally a summer-like day with temperatures in the high 80’s. It was too warm for me today – we went from cold to hot overnight.
Went out and cleaned the chicken coop this morning while it was still cool out. The girls always enjoy rearranging the straw when I get done. When I clean it monthly it isn’t a very hard job.
The house got hot this afternoon. Jim was working on the front flower beds and it was much cooler on the east side of the house outside then it was inside. I grabbed a bucket of deck paint and painted for two hours and got most of the bigger of the two front decks painted. I need to move the BBQ grill tomorrow and finish up the deck and paint the other small one. Feels good to have that job started.
We didn’t see much of our guest today. She left fairly early this morning, came home early afternoon but went to her room and then left about two hours after she came back.
The solar guy came and found out the problem with the system was an installation mistake. They were honest and told me upfront what had happened. They have to order parts and will be back in a week or two to fix it. They are going to reimburse me for the difference I had to pay to the electric company because the system wasn’t working correctly. This explains why I had a higher electric bill this winter and not last year. I appreciate their honesty and how they are handling it.
Got the results of my blood work back and the cancer markers are all still good. One of the two had a very slight increase but the doctor’s note said all was well. I will ask her about it when I see her mid June but sure it is nothing to worry about. Always good to get the confirmation that things continue to be good and there is no sign of the cancer returning.
The house is still warm this evening. I think when I get done writing I will go back outside and sit on the deck and enjoy the stars for a bit. We can hear the rodeo announcer from our back deck. The rodeo arena is over three miles away.
No real plans for the weekend other than going out to paint in the morning. I may work on the west side of the deck too. The flooring of that deck needs repainted too. We still have some steps and siding that never got painted before but Jim needs to do some sanding to it before I can paint that. But I can repaint the flooring. It all needs to be done before Jason’s wedding in September.
We do need to get downstairs and get the sheetrock removed from the bathroom and hallway so the wood can dry out and then we can put new sheet rock up. That will be a messy job but needs to get done.
The flower beds Jim have been working on sure look better. They were over grown and a mess. Maybe this year we will be around enough to keep them looking good all summer.
Next week I will get back to the rental house and paint. I will need to mow the yard both here and at the rental house next week too. Sure will be glad when we get the rental house done and I can turn the mowing over to our renter. We had told her we would mow until we were done painting as a compensation to her for not having the house painted before she moved in.
Hoping the handyman can spend some time on both this house and the rental next week and help me get some more progress made on both houses. Jim is going to Stillwater Monday and will be back Friday. He has his hands full with three houses to work on.
Grateful for a day of sunshine today, grateful for a clean chicken coop, and grateful the deck project has gotten started again.