Another productive day. I’m on a roll! Haven’t had two back to back productive days in a long time.
Finished sewing over 20 more masks today. I have made over 500 of them so far. Have material to make at least another hundred. If anyone needs some let me know. I am leaving July 1 and won’t be able to send any until I get home July 29 unless I get them off Monday or Tuesday this week. Have over 100 on hand right now. I have some with elastic and some that tie.
Moved all the furniture in the living room and dining room and did the floors. Even moved everything off of the pantry floor and got it cleaned. I found lots of dirt. Sure feels good to have that project done. Still need to dust but the house feels much cleaner to me now.
Jim helped me get the tarp that had gotten caught in the mower out. It was easier than I had hoped it might be. I mowed a bit afterwards just to make sure it was working OK. Still have about an hour of mowing left to do but it is too hot to mow right now. It is 94 but with the heat index feels like 102. I don’t like when it is that hot and humid.
Had a bit of a thunderstorm blow through during the night. I slept through most of it although I heard the wind howling at one point. Jim got up and watched it. I do enjoy watching thunderstorms blow in. We sat out on the deck last night and watched the sky fill with clouds. It was lightning about 70 miles away that we could see. Got some rain but not lots.
I got the chicken coop shoveled out. Still need to take the hose down and spray it out good. The straw had dried out and was easy to clean out. Got two wheelbarrows full of dirty straw. Hopefully in the morning I’ll get down and get that job finished.
We went to Walmart this afternoon and got two carts full. Had to get four bags of dog food, meds for Jim’s cats, and a few things we want to take to CO. Spent over $300. Money seems to go quickly out the door these days. Shopping wears me out. I was glad to get back home. I guessed about 50% of the customers were wearing face masks. Did my best to avoid the ones that didn’t have on a mask.
Jim helped me make scalloped potatoes with ham for dinner tonight. It is cooking now. I still want to make another batch of banana bread. Got a double batch of snickerdoodle cookies made last night.
Our guests should be here tomorrow early afternoon. So looking forward to having them come. I’ll put a pot roast in the crock pot tomorrow morning so I don’t have to cook while they are here. I’ll make some beer bread muffins to go with it and call it good.
I am slowing starting to pull some things out that I want to take to CO. I have a list started. I want to avoid shopping in CO as much as possible. We will have to go out for groceries but am hoping that will be all the shopping we have to do.
Need to write a few letters before I leave Wednesday morning. Realized I won’t have a printer to print my letters while we are in CO. I’ll have to send emails instead. My handwriting has gotten so bad I don’t think anyone could read what I wrote if I tried to hand write a letter.
My heart range has been between 43 to 134 today. I haven’t gotten an alert for the last several days of it dropping below 45 and staying there for over 10 minutes. Maybe it is not going to act up while I have the monitor on.
Feels good to have moved my body again today and to have gotten the house cleaned. I so enjoy a clean house. I feel like I finally have reclaimed my space again and my body is all home now. I had been feeling I left bits of me somewhere else. Good to be back home in my body and grounded again.
Grateful the house is clean, grateful the mower is fixed, and grateful the chicken coop is almost cleaned out.