Another beautiful day on the prairie. Bright blue skies during the day and a wonderful sunset tonight. Jim got out and took a long hike this afternoon while I stayed home and baked Ellexia some Chocolate Chip cookies.
I took a nap this afternoon as I didn’t sleep well again last night. I slept for three hours and then had trouble finding my second sleep. Got about one more hour before I gave up and got up. I even had trouble finding sleep for my nap today. We are getting ever so close to Winter Solstice and this time of the year sleep is hard for me to find.
I got Ellexia’s birthday present wrapped. When I take the cookies in tomorrow I will take her present so she will have it for Friday. When I go to town tomorrow I need to find some yarn so I can knit a blanket, mail the hats I knitted, and I also need to pick up a few groceries. I want to get my Christmas baking done this week and need a few more things to make that happen. I want to get things mailed by next Friday.
I knitted for a while this morning on the shawl I am making. Not halfway done yet but getting close. If I knit tonight I might get to the halfway part – we shall see. My left shoulder is sore from all the knitting I have been doing. I am out of shape to do a knitting marathon.
Other than going to town tomorrow I don’t have anything on my calendar all week. It will be a good week to get my Christmas baking done and my knitting done. I think I have all my shopping done. Just need everything to get here over the next two weeks and get everything wrapped. I don’t have a back-up plan so trusting I won’t need one. I still need to get the trees up too. Then Christmas 2020 will be in the bag.
Jim went down to the coop this afternoon to see the girls. He came up with a soft shell egg. That happens when the girls are first laying. The look on his face was priceless! They do feel weird when you handle them. It was leaking so we didn’t keep it. Jim is learning all the dirty ins and outs of raising chickens. He will be a full-fledged chicken rancher soon.
Dinner will be easy tonight. Jim wanted to make a ham salad sandwich and I am grilling myself a piece of salmon. Need to think of something to fix for tomorrow night.
I sent a note to my doctor. I had my cholesterol checked on Nov 20 and was to start a new medication. He was going to work to see if he could get the insurance company to cover the cost of it. I haven’t heard the results of the tests he ran nor if he was able to get the insurance to cover the prescription. I’ll see if they respond.
Christmas is less than three weeks away now. I am so looking forward to Winter Solstice and the days getting a bit longer each day. It always feels like a big turning point to me when it arrives. I enjoy the Solstice more than I do Christmas.
Grateful for the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, grateful my Christmas shopping is done, and grateful for my chickens and the fun times and smiles they bring to our lives.