I sold six dozen eggs today. Yay! My refrigerator is cleaned out. I have a little over a dozen in the egg basket on the counter. The girls gave me 20 eggs today. By the end of the day tomorrow I will have two dozen back in the refrigerator with some in the egg basket. Easy come – easy go. It is nice to empty them out though and start again.
Just after I wrote my blog yesterday I noticed the Lyon County Health Department was offering a vaccine clinic to those over 65. I quickly went on-line and followed the link and got appointments for both Jim and myself for tomorrow afternoon. Shortly after I did that, two dear friends sent me messages to let me know about the clinic so we could get signed up. I so appreciated them letting me know.
I called this morning to make sure that we qualified since we live in Chase County. We do. It will be a relief to get the vaccine and be on our way to feeling safer to get out and about. I understand the need to continue to wear our masks and social distance for a bit but it will be nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
It sounds like Chase County is getting close to offering its first clinic. They are starting with those over 75 and working down from there. I doubt that they know how many shots they can give until the. last minute when they get their vaccine.
I handled six calls on the hotline last night including a high risk texter. The supervisor was right there with me through the call and helped me get the person to a cooler calm. Again I never will know what the rest of the story is and have to trust that the person was still alive this morning. I got on the hot line for about 30 minutes this morning as they were busy then. I have another shift tonight. I am 1 1/2 hour from reaching my goal of volunteering for two hundred hours. That should happen tonight.
I took a long nap yesterday and last night I had trouble finding sleep. I finally fell asleep around 6:00 this morning and only slept until 8:30. I took a one hour nap this afternoon. We will see what happens tonight. Sleep remains a mystery to me.
Since we have to go to town tomorrow afternoon for our vaccines I’m going to bake cookies for the kids and take them to town with us to drop off. I don’t think we have any other errands to run other than dumping the recycling stuff. They haven’t called to let Jim know his car is done so we haven’t made it back over to Cottonwood Falls yet. My car is full of stuff that needs dumped.
We are having fish for dinner tonight. I’ll have a piece of grilled salmon and Jim will have his beer battered baked fish. I’m going to fix sweet potato fries for me and tater tots for Jim. It will be an easy dinner to make. I threatened Jim with fish anytime he can’t help me come up with something to fix for dinner.
We had changed Jim’s car insurance to my policy as it was going to be cheaper for him. When he cancelled his insurance he found out his house insurance was going to double if he removed both cars. We had to cancel one of the cars from my policy and keep it on Jim’s. My insurance company will send me a refund check. What a racket for the insurance companies.
No big plans for the weekend. Jim is doing a Zoom lecture for the Stillwater Historical Society Sunday afternoon. He only has 20 – 30 minutes to talk so it will be short. He didn’t make it to Stillwater this week as his car has been in the shop. Hopefully it will get done yet this week so he can go to Stillwater early next week. He needs to get the Honda titled in KS and the car needs to be here for him to do that. I think his plan is to go down and come back the same day.
It was a beautiful day on the prairie today. The temperature was in the high 50’s which is amazing for the middle of January in KS. We have a chance for some snow on Monday and it will be down in the 30’s next week. Got to love the weather in Kansas – you never know what you will get. I can’t complain though as we have had a very mild winter this year. I’m getting excited for Spring though.
Still processing the change I our government yesterday. It will be interesting to watch what happens with the new administration and if things can get done. I have my doubts due to the great divide but hopefully I am wrong. I am hearing road blocks being put up already – so much for a call for unity. I wonder what it will take for the divide to begin to close.
Grateful for my egg customers that emptied my refrigerator of eggs today, grateful for the appointments to get our vaccine tomorrow, and grateful for an easy dinner to fix tonight.