Had a wonderful lunch with Jason and Michelle’s families celebrating Tim’s birthday. I was told the beef enchiladas were good, everyone enjoyed the nacho cheese dip and the banana pudding was a hit. It is so nice to be able to have the kids out again for meals and fellowship. Fills my heart with joy.
I made banana pudding for Tim’s birthday cake not knowing for sure if he would like it. He was so excited when he heard I had made it – it is one of his favorites. We put candles in it and sang happy birthday to him. Jim was glad to hear the family likes it as that means I will make it again soon. Jim loves it too. It sure looked good but I don’t eat anything with sugar in it so I didn’t eat any.
I went down and painted on the chicken coop this morning for an hour. I painted on the west side while it was still cool out and I was in the shade. After dinner tonight I went back down and painted for another hour, this time on the east side in the shade. I ran out of paint so decided to call it a day. I have some more paint but I had enough painting for the day. I may have to get more paint soon as I am using a lot of paint on the coop. The siding is rough and is taking in lots of paint. I am almost to the point where I will need a ladder to finish it up.
I didn’t sleep much last night. I had trouble falling asleep and if I was able to fall asleep I would wake up after ten minutes or so. Sure makes for a long night when that happens.
After the kids left today I laid down to take a nap and couldn’t fall asleep then either. Maybe I will crash tonight and get lots of sleep. I am overdue to crash and burn.
Tomorrow we need to go into the rental house and mow and do some painting there. I need to focus on painting at the rental house all this week while Jim is in Stillwater. I am so tired of this project and need to stay focused and get it done. Hoping the handyman will have some free time this week to get the rest of the siding ready to be painted. He will then need to repair some soffit pieces and then I will ask him to help me paint the trim. The peak of the house still needs painted and I may ask him to do that too. I don’t like painting on a ladder but will do so to get this project done.
It was a hot one on the prairie today. It reached above 90 today and is projected to hit 100 later this week. Yuck! This hot weather drains me. I will have to get up early this week and get into town and get painting while it is cool outside. I don’t do well in the heat of the day.
Tomorrow I deliver eggs. I am going to have to short a customer some eggs as I don’t have enough on hand. I should have enough to fill the back order by either Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. I had cleaned out my stash twice last week and am behind. Once I get caught up I will be OK – should be a temporary shortage unless the girls decide it is getting too hot to lay and start cutting back on how many they lay. I had a talk with them today – we will see if it did any good.
I’m going to need to do a grocery run sometime this week. Maybe when I come home from Topeka on Wednesday I can stop and pick up some groceries and not have to make a special trip to town this week. With Jim being gone most of the week I won’t need many groceries. I’m not sure if he is coming home Friday or Saturday.
Grateful the kids were able to come for lunch today, grateful for Tim’s birthday as that gave us a reason to gather, and grateful for what painting I was able to get done today.