I went to Emporia this morning and got chicken feed and dog food. I then went and picked up a few groceries for myself. I spent more on the chicken and dog feed than I did on my groceries. The dog food is now in a 42 pound bag instead of the 44 it used to come in. The price went up $4 a bag and I got 2 less pounds. Not sure that math works in my favor at all!
Haven’t done much else today except fix dinner. I fixed green chicken for Kathy and myself. It is easy and we both enjoyed it. I usually forget to think ahead three hours to put it in the crock pot but I remembered today. I was hungry this afternoon though as I smelled it cooking all afternoon. I heated up some veggies to go with it and dinner was served. It is nice to have someone to eat dinner with again. Food seems to taste better when you share the dining experience.
One of the chicks was sitting on top of the chicken pen this afternoon. I found some shelving things that I laid across the top of the pen to attempt to keep them in. We may have jail break soon though. I will move them to the big coop outside mid week next week. Hope I can keep them contained until then. It is to be 70 next Wednesday which will be a good day to get the coop cleaned out and get it ready for them. They will still need the heat lamp for six more weeks so will need to figure out a way to do that. I will need a barrier of some sort in the coop to limit how far they can roam for the first two weeks they are in the big coop. I’ll have to put on my thinking cap and figure out something to use to put up. After that they can use the full coop with a heat lamp to warm up under when they choose to.
It will be a quiet weekend on the prairie for me. Nothing on my calendar and no plans to go anywhere. I don’t have anything on my to-do list either. After the last two busy weekends it will be a treat to have a quiet one. Two of the grandkids went to FL for spring break so they aren’t around for me to have fun with or bake cookies for. One of the other grandkids is coming out Monday to play with me. I’m looking forward to that.
I finally got some good sleep last night. I hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep for several nights. It was good to wake up this morning feeling rested. My body seems to need extra rest right now. I’m grateful I don’t have a lot of things pending and can honor what my body needs. It feels so good to be in a good head space again. I can feel that my central nervous system is finally calming down and allowing me to relax. Ahhhhh……. I have missed this feeling.
Anyone else besides me missing the sunshine? We seem to be having lots of cloudy days without the benefit of getting rain from the clouds. Maybe KS moved to Oregon and forgot to tell us. I don’t think I could live somewhere where it is cloudy most of the time. I miss the sun!
I trust it will warm up soon and allow me to start painting my deck. It needs to stay above freezing overnight for at least three days in a row before I can start painting. It also needs to be over 50 for several hours during the day without a chance of rain for me to be able to paint. Looking at the forecast it may be April before both conditions are met and I can go at it. I want to get it all painted before the heat of the summer hits. I hope we have a long spring this year and the heat waits until late May to show up.
It will soon be burning season in the Flint Hills. We need some rain to make the burning less dangerous. The ranchers will have to delay burning if we don’t get some spring rains soon. That delays pasture season and ranchers lose money.
Grateful I got good sleep last night, grateful the chicken feed supply has been replenished, and grateful for company at dinner time again.