Happy birthday to Craig. He is wintering in Florida – smart man. Trust Nancy will spoil him today and celebrate him for us.
Went to Emporia mid day to drop some mail off at Michelle’s house, make a deposit and pick up a few groceries. The forecast is not looking good for several days so decided I needed to go today while the roads were dry and clear. We are to have blizzard conditions Monday and Tuesday. Pretty sure I won’t be going to KC Tuesday as planned. I don’t have anything on my calendar next week until Saturday so will be good to stay home for a bit.
Kathy came home this morning to pick up a few things and to love on her cat. I told her to text me if she didn’t want to come for the next couple of days and I will feed Louis for her. No use risking her life doing something I can do easily.
Got the laundry room cleaned today. It was disgusting. Not sure why I let it go so long between cleanings but it is clean now. I even got under the dryer cleaned. For some reason there was some lint on the wall so I got that cleaned off and the top of the washer cleaned. Not sure why I expect clean clothes to come out of a dirty washer.
I have some potato soup cooking. Sure makes the house smell good. I had some potatoes that needed used up and some milk that was going out of date. Picked up some celery and onion at the grocery store this morning and turned it all into potato soup. Soup sounds good on a blizzard week. I’m sure I have enough to eat on for several days. It is hard to make a small batch of potato soup.
Got lots of paper thrown away from my file cabinet last night. I am down to about 15 files now. Just don’t need to save records like I did when I had the retreat center and AirBnB. Found some old cards, letters, etc. that I got rid of. At the first of the year, I like to throw away things that hold old energy in them. I feel it allows for new clean energy to come inside instead. Still have one more drawer to go through in the file cabinet. It holds old tax records and I need to decide what I have to keep and what I can throw away. I’ll have to look up the suggested record retention recommendations and go from there.
I took some time and checked out the requirements in order to deduct storm damage and you can only do it if the storm damage happened in a federally declared disaster area. Good to know but sad I can’t deduct some of my losses that insurance won’t cover. No use gathering all the information to take to my tax accountant.
No plans for the next couple of days other than staying inside where it is warm and dry. I only will venture out once a day to take care of the chickens. I remember one year I did the chores during a blizzard. It was hard to find my way down there and then back to the house. Maybe I can catch a break and find a sweet spot during the expected snow storm that is coming in.
Monday I do need to make about six phone calls and get some things scheduled. I need a hair cut but will wait until I know what the roads are like to schedule that. I won’t go to the Chiropractor until later in the week when the roads are clear again. I also need to schedule an oil change but won’t do that until I know when I can safely get there.
I got the back deck shoveled yesterday late afternoon. Water is still dripping off the roof but not as much as yesterday. I don’t like the water to turn to ice and then have a layer of ice that snow covers up. It is supposed to get above freezing today so am thinking most of the snow that is on the ground now will melt before the new stuff comes tomorrow. The chicken coop sure is muddy. The girls enjoyed rearranging the fresh straw I put down for them yesterday.
I will watch the Chiefs game soon. It takes me five minutes to find the darn channel it is on. I miss the days where you could tune to the channel you wanted and didn’t have to take ten steps to get there. Hope they play better than they have been. I don’t expect them to get very far in the playoffs this year.
Sitting in a good head space today. Feel like I am on a bit of a roller coaster lately but it seems to be slowing down. I know what triggered me and it is going to take a few days for things to become clear to me what the outcome will be. I did some fact finding last night which helped. I have a tendency to go to the worse case scenario in my head and that isn’t helpful.
Grateful for a nice day before the storm comes, grateful to have another room clean, and grateful for the potato soup that is cooking.