It has warmed up to the upper 40’s so far today. Warmer than forecast predicted. I’m grateful! It almost feels like a spring day on the prairie.
Kathy has Covid. This is the first time she has had it. I heard her coughing all night. She had gone to bed before 4:00 yesterday afternoon. So far it appears to be a mild case but we shall see what happens. If she has to come upstairs, she wears a mask. Grateful for this big house so we can stay apart.
I woke up with a bit of a sore throat but it hasn’t gotten worse or better all day. Crossing my fingers I don’t get Covid for the 3rd time. When I had it last time Kathy didn’t get it so here is to hoping we can repeat that pattern.
I made a batch of chicken noodle soup and put it in the crock pot and took it downstairs. Grandma’s chicken noodle soup can be healing – right? She was able to eat a bit of it earlier. I’ll let it stay downstairs all day and she can eat on it when she feels like eating.
Last night I laid out some steaks for dinner tonight. Jason said he would grill them for us. I laid out four thinking Kathy would join us for dinner. Don’t know if she will feel like eating steak or not later. When I am sick I have the hardest time eating but I don’t remember what Kathy does. She rarely gets sick.
Haven’t gotten much else done today. I will go down and take care of chicken chores in a bit. I’m grateful I won’t have to put on my winter gear for the walk down and back. The rest of the week is to be even warmer.
Got the bill for the damper replacement. Ouch! I will be grateful to be out from under this house and the seemingly never ending things to fix or replace. Jason and I were going to run some pressurized water through the line downstairs today but since Kathy has Covid decided not to spend time downstairs today. We will do in next weekend. It is to be warmer next week anyways and will be a better day to do it.
Don’t have a busy week ahead. I will go to town for exercise Monday, Wednesday and Friday and I have two tax shifts on Wednesday. Other than those trips, I don’t have anything on my calendar. I might be able to get started cleaning out the barn and bagging up trash. I have lots to throw away down there. I will also start a big giveaway or donate pile.
I won’t know for another couple of weeks if we are going to close sometime in mid May or wait until June 1. I have lots of time, either way, to get things organized and downsized. One day next week when I am in town I will stop and get another car load of boxes from McDonald’s so I won’t run out of boxes. I love using fry boxes to move. They are the perfect size for most things and I can handle them full easily. Best part is they are free. I also need to get some paper to wrap glass things in.
I am going to be working to reduce the amount of stuff I have in my freezers and grocery supplies on hand. The house we are moving to doesn’t have a pantry and I won’t be able to keep as much on hand. I will attempt to use what I have on hand and not buy much new. I only want to take one freezer so will work hard to get one empty. I may fix some weird meals around here for the next couple of months to accomplish that. I can deal with that!
The EFIS guy is to stop by one day this week and look at the project. Hope he doesn’t come on Wednesday as I will be gone most of that day. It will ease my fears to see his face here and know that he will do the job. EFIS repair guys are hard to find and I don’t know what I will do if he flakes out on me. The first guy I found I have never heard from again and his phone is full and won’t accept messages. Guess after June 1 it won’t be my problem!
It is starting to sink in that I will be moving soon. I almost wish we could move April 1 but I have a renter under contract and I can’t do that to her. Jason’s place will be ready May 1 so we can’t leave until then at the earliest. It feels like a long time away but life goes on and time moves by quickly.
My goal for this week is to push my plumbers into doing something about the booster pump. I let them know it was leaking again over two months ago and they haven’t been able to get the supplier to do anything about it. Thinking we need to find a different brand of pump and just be done with this brand. They are not good pumps as they only work for about four months before they start leaking. I’m tired of having water on the furnace room floor.
I’m hoping my mower comes home this week. I have two different people interested in buying it but I need some information off the mower to give the interested parties. I sure would like to know that I have that sold soon. I will keep it until we get closer to close as I will have to use it a couple times this spring to mow. I won’t start looking for a smaller one until closer to moving time as I will want it delivered to the new address.
Wonder what the lead time is on getting a storage shed delivered? When I am in town this week I will stop and look at some and find out. Timing is everything – right?
Still being able to stay above the neutral level. There is a lot going on but I have been able to find some quiet times in the midst of the chaos to refill myself. I keep going back to that day in January when I realized in a big way that the Universe has my back and things will work out in my best and highest interest. I truly am feeling and believing that. All is well, in all ways, all is well!
Grateful for a beautiful spring day, grateful Kathy’s case of Covid is mild so far, and grateful for an empty space day.