Sleep! Glorious sleep. I slept like a normal person last night. Fell asleep around 9:30 and slept straight through until 4:30. Woke up and went to the bathroom and was able to go right back to sleep. Slept until 7:30 this morning. Wow! Can’t remember the last time I got that much sleep. May it be the start of a new trend. I think I could like night-time again if this happened more often.
I remembered to do chores this morning. Kathy is gone for the week so the chores are on me. Thought about setting an alarm on my phone to remind myself to do them.
Got the push mowing done last night. I needed to get outside and move my body. I am going out to do the riding mowing in a bit. I need to go get some more gas so I will have enough to finish the job. Only the first refill of my gas cans all summer.
I have officially lost 40 pounds since I started Bright Line Eating almost 200 days ago. One more pound to go and I will hit the top range of my goal weight! 60 pounds down from where I was over a year ago. Now the real work begins which is keeping it off. I certainly am more comfortable being in a right sized body this time. When I lost weight before I wasn’t. Maybe that will help me keep it off this time. The weight I shed feels like is was old baggage and the real me has been uncovered.
Still playing the on-line dating game. I have regular contact via phone or text with two different guys going on. Not thinking either of them are “the” one but it is fun to practice flirting. One doesn’t like to go very deep but he is the one I am just texting. The other lives in CO so it will be a challenge to develop a relationship with just through emails and texts. He lived in Denmark as a child and English is his second language. Sometimes I struggle to understand what he is saying which makes communication a bit of a challenge over the phone. It is fun to laugh with him though.
I never dated much as a girl growing up and haven’t had much experience with it since. On-line adds another dimension to it – are they really who they say they are? Thinking the rules have changed since I was in High School an am not sure what they are. Maybe my memory of those days long gone is not reliable either though. Kinda fun to open myself to this possibility and see where it takes me. May still end up alone but that is OK too. I kinda like spending time with myself now.
Nothing much on my calendar for this week. I will have five guests for the next two nights and then four through Friday morning. Saturday one leaves and two others come in. I’ll have three next week Tuesday through Friday morning. I like having a full house of guests!
My three guests and I watched the full moon rise last night. There were a bit of clouds on the horizon so didn’t get to see it come up but shortly after it was up we saw it rise higher and higher into the night sky. It was a big and bright orange ball of light. I watched it for over 30 minutes. Maybe that is why I was able to sleep really good last night. I will set an alarm on my phone so I can remember to watch it again tonight if the clouds stay away.
Wind warnings are back up for the rest of the day. Most of the ten-day forecast calls for temperatures in the mid 80’s with some scattered chances of rain thrown in. Much prefer the 80’s over the 90’s. Fall is coming! I smelled it in the air yesterday. One of my favorite times of the year.
One of these mornings when I get up early and it is cooler out I will need to clean out the chicken coop. I try to remember to get it done monthly through the summer. When really cold weather hits I add fresh straw monthly but leave the old stuff in there. That helps keep the chickens warmer in the winter. Need to check to make sure I have enough straw to get through the winter months. Won’t be long before I will need to hook up the heat lamp so there water doesn’t freeze. Winter will be here before I am ready for it.
Nicole took some pictures of the house for me to add-on to my Airbnb site. I tried yesterday and the pictures failed to load for some reason. I was too tired to figure out what happened. If I remember I will try again today and see what I need to do to fix it. Some days I don’t have patience for technology and yesterday was one of those days. Maybe today – maybe not though!
Sitting in my peaceful valley this morning. Enjoying the peace and quiet of the house after the busy weekend. The guest that is home today is quietly working downstairs and I won’t see much of her today. The others are at work and won’t be back until early evening. Good day to recharge my soul and enjoy the beauty around me.
Grateful for 40 pounds released in 200 days, grateful for living in a place that gives me a wonderful view of the sunsets and moon risings, and grateful for the many possibilities life has to offer me.