What a fun day. I drove to Manhattan this. morning. I stopped at Home Depot to pick up something I ordered. That process was quick and easy. I looked for kitchen cabinet door hinges but they didn’t have what I needed.
I then went to a dear friend’s house. We sat outside on her new porch and visited for several hours. It did my heart and soul good to have a heart-to-heart conversation. I have so missed my girl friends during this long year plus of social isolation.
I drove home through the beautiful Flint Hills. The drive between Council Grove and Manhattan is one of my favorite drives. The hills are so pretty right now with the new green grass coming up from the ashes of the burnt fields.
I should have gone into paint when I got home but I stayed home. I will do my best to make it in tomorrow to paint some more. I was tired when I got home and I don’t do a good job painting when I am tired.
We are having fish for dinner tonight. Jim has beer batter fish and I get salmon. He gets tater tots and I will have sweet potato fries. All but the salmon goes in the oven so it is a very easy meal to fix.
My neighbor was hell bent on burning today but the wind had other plans for him. He might get to burn this evening yet as the wind is starting to slow down some. Tomorrow might be a better day to burn as the forecast shows slower winds in the morning. We will see what he decides to do. Not sure if the guy that burns my property will burn mine at the same time or not. I told the two guys to talk and leave me out of it.
Jim teaches his first of three classes on Zoom Monday afternoon. He is going to Stillwater for at least one night if not two sometime this week. My friend from Manhattan is coming Wednesday to stay for a couple of nights while her new wood floors get installed. It will be a busy but fun week.
I have to go to town one day next week and have a blood draw to check my thyroid levels. Last time they checked my levels were way too high. I trust they have come down a bit.
We got 28 eggs again today from my 29 laying hens. Wow. They are busy producing. I had the biggest egg I have ever seen for breakfast today. It was a double yolk egg and absolutely huge.
Feeling in a much better space today finally. It has been a rough week for me mentally. Figuring out what was unresolved helped me clear it out. I have learned when the little things start bugging me I need to pay attention and figure out what is behind it. It is easy to blame someone else but always the real problem is myself. I have no control over what others do. My power lays in controlling myself and my reactions.
Grateful for a much needed visit with a friend, grateful for the beauty of the hills today, and grateful my heaviness and restlessness has cleared.