A very rainy day on the prairie today. My weather station is reporting we have received over 3 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. Wave after wave of rain keeps passing by. So far nothing severe or hail and no high winds. The ponds are filling up quickly. No outside painting or mowing for me today.
I didn’t make it in to the rental house today. Jim and I took a rest day and did not much of anything. I took a nap and Jim read this afternoon. I did bake a double batch of chocolate chip cookies for the grandkids but haven’t gotten them delivered yet. I don’t like driving in the rain and we haven’t had an hour break from the rain today. I’ll get them to town tomorrow.
I made a beef stew in the crock pot this morning. It turned out to be a good day for a hot stew for dinner. It made for an easy dinner tonight since I did the work to fix it this morning.
This afternoon we had the study door open. All of a sudden we heard a lot of noise coming from the chicken coop. We looked out and there was a coyote standing outside the pen. Jim walked down there and scared the coyote away. That critter better stay away from my chickens. I am grateful we have wire over the top of the pen so they don’t fly over the top and become dinner for the coyote.
Rain is in the forecast for the next ten days. We have a 40 – 80 percent chance of rain everyday this week. May not get much progress done on the outside of the rental house – we shall see what Mother Nature decides to do. I still have a bit of painting to do inside and I can get the inside cleaned up if I can’t get outside painting. Not sure if my handyman will be able to get much done this week as what he now needs to do is outside work. Can’t control what the weather does so things will be what they are.
Feeling a bit restless tonight. I didn’t get much done today and that makes me restless. It is good for my body to take a day of rest once in a while. I didn’t even do any cleaning in this house today. I need to move my body some and work out some of this restlessness. I feel like baking something but not sure what to bake or who would eat it.
Once I get this rental house project finished I will need to find another project for myself. I have lots of painting to do at this house but I need some rainy day projects too.
Grateful for a rest day, grateful for beef stew on a rainy day, and grateful the coyote didn’t get to my chickens.