It has been a busy but productive day on the prairie today. Jim aired my tire up and then followed me into Cottonwood Falls so I could drop my car off and get the tire fixed. We delivered eggs to my two Cottonwood Falls customers and then went to Emporia.
I dropped off the contract to purchase the new investment property at the Title Company. They said they would start working on it later this week.
Went to Bluestem and got chicken feed and oats. I used egg money to pay for the feed this time. I told Jim the chickens are now self-sufficient and supporting themselves. Not sure he bought that idea.
We went to Walmart to get a heat lamp bulb and some groceries. While there Michelle texted and needed a ride home to get a set of car keys as she had locked her keys in the car. It was nice to get to visit with her for a few minutes.
We came back home after stopping in Cottonwood Falls to pick up my car. Jim unload the five bags of feed and put them into the smaller containers. I put the groceries away. It feels like we accomplished a lot today.
I also called the roofing company to get a bid on replacing the roof on the new property we are buying. They are to get in touch with me later this week or early next week to schedule the bid.
I got on the hot line last night intending to only stay on for an hour. 2 1/2 hours later I finally got to a stopping point and got off. I handled five suicidal callers and had to get the supervisor involved in one suicide and one domestic violence call. I was handling both of those at the same time. What a night! I had trouble falling asleep after all of that and didn’t get to sleep until almost 6:00 this morning. After I get done writing I am going to take a nap.
After the two high risk calls the supervisor and I had a nice exchange of messages. She mentioned she loves to see my name on her team as she trusts me to get her involved when needed and appreciates how I handled the texters. She is the first supervisor to mention that she recognizes my name when I get on. There are over 6,000 volunteer counselors and probably 50 supervisors so I understand why they wouldn’t remember me. I am getting to the point of recognizing most of the supervisors names now and have preferences as to which one I work with. I don’t get a choice though and they change during my shift to keep their workloads even.
I hated to sign off last night as they had over 100 people waiting to chat with a counselor and less than 40 counselors working but after the two high risk texters at the same time I was emotionally fried and couldn’t take another call. It was after 2:00 and I was getting tired.
Jim is going to Stillwater tomorrow morning. He has an eye doctor appointment at 2:00. He is planning on coming back after his appointment. He will switch vehicles and bring back another load of his treasures. I’ll fix something in the crock pot for dinner tomorrow night so I can feed him whenever he gets back home.
I have almost six repeats done on the blanket I am making. I have at least four more repeats and probably six more repeats to do so I am almost halfway done. It seems to be taking me a long time to get it done but I don’t have a deadline this time so no worries.
I have some hamburger thawing for dinner tonight. Not sure what I am going to do with it but I’ll figure something out when it is time. We may just have plain hamburgers – both of us enjoy that.
Katy is still alive but hasn’t moved since Sunday. We give her water using an eye dropper. She doesn’t appear to be in any pain. Jim may take her to Stillwater with him tomorrow and take her to her familiar vet. We will see what happens tomorrow. Hard decision to make.
It feels like we packed a weeks worth of adventures into one day. Funny since we stay home alone most of the time going to town is big for us now. It did feel good to get a lot of stuff taken care of.
Grateful my to-do list got taken care of today, grateful the egg money was enough to buy the feed, and grateful I was able to talk some suicidal people into a calmer state.