Another quiet day at home. So what is new? I worked on face masks and did some mowing today. I got 2/3 of the back yard mowed and need to go out and finish the rest of it as it has started to cool down. It got up to the mid 80’s today and I got too hot mowing.
I have about 30 more masks to sew and then I am retiring from making them for a bit. I am tired of the mess in the dining room. I keep finding pieces of thread all over the house. 268 masks is enough!
Jim and I took our walk this morning before it got too hot. We only walked one mile though.
The foundation workers showed up this morning around 8:45. They didn’t get done so will be back tomorrow. Jim is pleased with the job they are doing. It is one of the first things he has hired done on his house. It was a bit unsettling to him to watch someone else work on his house. I’m grateful he agreed to hire them though as it has taken four men over 30 hours to get the job done. I can’t imagine how long it would have taken Jim to do it by himself.
We had planned on taking another car load of stuff to Strong City tomorrow but since the workers are coming back we will have to wait until Saturday or Monday to do it. Not sure which day we will go now.
My B/P has been low again today and my pulse rate way too fast. I had to quit mowing twice as I was getting light headed. My body does not like heat or cold. I have a very narrow comfort range these days. Jim is finally understanding my limitations.
We are having stuffed chicken breasts for dinner. When we decided to have them Jim said he would fix the chicken. I told him he could fix the whole dinner. I haven’t had a day off from cooking for over two months. He agreed so is fixing dinner tonight. It will be a treat to eat food someone else fixed. Food always tastes better when someone else makes it.
My shift last night on the Crisis Hotline went well. I handled three calls. I have another shift tonight. I only need three more calls and I will move up to level 2. Not sure what that means exactly other than they don’t monitor what I am doing as closely. I haven’t gotten any feedback yet so assuming I am doing OK. They have hundreds of new volunteers and I’m sure they are struggling to monitor everyone closely. We were told we would get feedback often but so far I haven’t gotten any. No news is good news?
The old timers on the hotline are complaining that they don’t get To take as many calls as they used to as they have so many more volunteers. Not sure what the turnover rate is among the Volunteers but betting it is fairly high for new ones. I’m grateful so many people stepped up and volunteered so the texters don’t have To wait very long to get served. There are lots of hurting people out in the world right now that need some extra support.
It is getting easier to know what to say without having to look up something all the time. I did get a new to me type of call and had to look up how to handle it. Two of the three calls felt easy and satisfying and had only one that felt incomplete. I have served 7 our of the required 200 hours so far. That was easy!
Still riding life in my peaceful valley. It helped to get some physical exercise today mowing even though I got too hot. I do better when I remember to move my body.
Grateful the masks are all almost done, grateful for the three calls I handled last night, and grateful most of my mowing is done for the week.