Spent an hour on the phone this morning trying to get my blog site up and going again. No luck. The issue was escalated to a higher level tech support group. WordPress sent me to JetPack who sent me to BlueHost. Sounds like it is something on their end but the lady helping me kept getting error messages she had never seen before. She said it could take up to two days to fix it. She was very nice and made the call easy for me by keeping her technology terms simple. Maybe by Monday it will be up and going. Grateful I have a paper copy of most of the entries in case this wipes things out.
Cleaned out some more of the office closet while I was on hold during the long call. That closet is finally starting to look better. I had cleaned it out some in January but needed to finish the job. I have one box of old bills I need to take down to the barn and a have a pile of old paint-by-number paintings to throw away.
The sun has disappeared behind clouds again today. The wind is in a big hurry to blow in a cold front. The high tomorrow is to be 33 and the low is to be 22. May need to take the heat lamp back out to the chickens so their water doesn’t freeze. It will warm up some again next week.
Got one bedroom and one bathroom downstairs deep cleaned last night. May try to do another room yet today. It takes less than 30 minutes to do a room – not sure why I just don’t get them done. I decided not to wash all the linens as they have not been used much, if at all, since I washed them last September.
Got my first Airbnb listing today. The guests won’t be here until the first weekend in June but it is a start. A friend looked at my listing and let me know I had a few typo’s so got those fixed. I need to check my listing again to make sure I caught them all.
I went with the pricing that Airbnb recommended which is significantly less than what others in the area are charging. I may need to go back and raise the prices. I’ll see what happens with where they are now. One thing I need to figure out is to see if I can book more than one couple when they only want one room. I would prefer to have two rooms booked at a time, even if the couples aren’t together.
I need to have Nicole come down with her nice camera and take some pictures of the outside of the house and bedrooms so I can add them to my site. I used what I have but some need updating and I didn’t have any pictures of the guest bedrooms and bathrooms. I tried taking some with my iPhone but they didn’t turn out very good.
Need to remember to figure out a top to put on the baby chicken pen. The biggest chick looks like he is big enough that he could fly the coop if he decided to. He is almost twice as big as the other one. Four more weeks before I can take them out with the big chickens. I probably need to change their linens out today too.
Day 49 today on the Bright Lines Eating Plan. Seems pretty automatic to me by now. I like knowing what I will be eating everyday. I still forget to lay meat out to thaw for dinner but have several things I can fix when that happens. I have lost 13 pounds so far. If I keep this pace of losing up I will be at goal weight in 100 more days. Don’t expect that to happen though as I will probably slow down losing the closer I get to goal weight. I also have the trip to Italy in there and not expecting to lose weight while I am gone – I trust I will not gain too much though!
Grateful I found the group that can fix my blog after three attempts, grateful I got my first Airbnb booking, and grateful the snow has been removed from the forecast.