Not quite so productive day today. We did go to the rental house and Jim mowed while I did some painting. Each time we mow the yard looks better. We are still finding bits and pieces of tools, etc. that don’t belong in the yard. Jim pulled the climbing rose bush away from the yard so I could paint behind it today.
Last night I baked a triple batch of Snickerdoodles. I put some downstairs so our guest could have them with her coffee this morning. She took the leftovers with her – I think she liked them. She left around 9:00. I didn’t get to talk to her this morning. She was a quiet and kind guest.
I didn’t do any painting at this house today. I felt a bit blah today and took a nap this afternoon instead of going out to paint. Jim had to go to Emporia to get some more landscaping stuff and I slept while he was gone.
I did get three loads of laundry done. I have the sheets and towels washed that the guest used and need to go down and make up the bed. I pulled the trash this morning. She was very neat and didn’t leave much to clean up.
I need to go to Emporia either tomorrow or Tuesday and purchase a new dryer for the rental house. The one there only works if you dry two or three things at a time. That isn’t very convenient for my renter. She is going to take a picture of the plug and send it to me so I can tell them what kind of plug I need.
While I am in town I need to get two gallons of deck paint so I can get the flooring of the deck painted. I am going to push myself to get that project done in the next two weeks. I have had it on my to-do list for way too long and it is time to get it done. It will get too hot to be out painting if I wait much longer. The front decks look nice since they got repainted. It motivates me to do the back one now.
I also want to get a gallon of paint and paint the chicken coop. I haven’t painted it since I got it and it is starting to look a bit rough.
Jim is leaving for Stillwater tomorrow early afternoon. He has a long list of things to do while he is there. Maybe while he is gone I will get lots of painting here done. I have all the painting done at the rental house I can do without doing ladder work on the sides of the house. I am waiting on the handyman to replace a bunch more siding pieces and then I can finish up the sides of the house. Next up is to finish scrapping and then painting the windows. I do have some porch painting I can do this week if I make it in to paint. Every time I paint a bit it helps get me one step closer to finishing up this project.
I don’t have anything on my calendar until the 16th when I have to go back to Topeka to see my Endocrinologist. It is nice to have a whole week plus of empty space. I have been craving that lately.
It was another beautiful day on the prairie. Not quite as warm as yesterday as we only got up in the upper 70’s today. The clouds rolled in at some point and it looked like it might rain but it didn’t. We have a 50% chance of rain tomorrow and then it is going to warm up the rest of the week and stay dry. Not sure I am ready for the 90 degree days in the forecast but I am ready for the low chance of rain.
Feeling the urge to have a moon arising party to celebrate the full moon and the summer solstice. The full moon in June is the 24th and Solstice is the 20th. It has been a long time since I have been able to do that and feel an evening with like-minded people would be good for my soul. I need to figure out how to invite people that have been vaccinated though. It might be a bit rude to issue an invite and tell them they can’t come if they haven’t been vaccinated.
Jim has spent the last couple of days working on the flower beds in the front of the house. They sure are looking better. We have a drainage problem and he is working on solving that as well as making the beds look nice.
Grateful the yard at the rental property is mowed, grateful a bit more painting got done on the rental house, and grateful for a quiet day at home.