This has been a weird day. I went to bed at 6:30 last night. Woke up at 3:00 and was up until 5:30. Went back to bed for an hour and then got up. Was up until 11:00 and then took a nap. Finally felt rested.
I changed the bedding for both sets of chicks today. Both sets had managed to spill their water and their pine shavings were wet. The big pen only needed the wet removed and replaced but the little tub needed totally cleaned. Nice to have clean pens tonight.
I struggle to keep the watering containers free from pine shavings. I dump wet shavings out about every hour to make sure the chicks have fresh water at all times. I’ll be glad when they grow up a bit and can use the bigger watering containers and I won’t have to worry about them all the time.
I’ll be glad when I can put the littlest ones in the bigger pen. And then I will be even gladder when I can move them all out to the chicken coop outdoors. The weather forecast for next week isn’t looking good though so thinking it will be more than a week before that can happen. Maybe the winter system that is to come through will change its mind and go somewhere else. Come on Spring and warmer temperatures.
I went to Emporia this afternoon and bought groceries for the week ahead. I had a full cart today. I’m not used to cooking for five people for several days. I already know a few things I didn’t get so will have to make a return trip to town sometime soon.
The Pioneer Bluffs Newsletter got printed today so I picked that up and will start stuffing it this evening. If anyone doesn’t have plans for tonight or tomorrow you are welcome to come over and help out. Hoping to get it done by tomorrow afternoon. Many hands help get the job done quickly.
The first box of envelopes that has to be kept in zip code order was all mixed up. I got those sorted so it will be easy to stuff them. Hoping the other three boxes are not messed up. It would be easy to mess them up when they get printed. Makes my job a bit tougher when they do that though.
I haven’t gotten my house cleaned for my company yet. I want to get the Newsletter finished first and then if I have time I will clean. Hoping to get a bit of cleaning done but we shall see what happens. I’m very good at procrastinating on doing cleaning. I will try to get to the things that are bothering me but we will see how this all unfolds.
The rumination that I had earlier this week has stopped, thank heavens. Feeling more like myself again. My sleep has been a bit unpredictable this week but am sure it will calm back down soon. I am grateful I followed my therapist advice and got rid of trigger items in the house. I do better when I don’t talk about what happened or see things that remind me of what happened.
It sure warmed up more today then I thought it would. We missed the snow that was to have come overnight. Got a bit of rain overnight but it has been clear and sunny today. Reached the low 60’s on the prairie today. It is supposed to reach the low 70’s on Sunday before winter comes back for a last blast during the week.
Grateful the groceries are mostly in the house for next week, grateful the chicks are thriving and growing, and grateful for what rain the prairie got overnight.