The back porch got torn off today. We blocked the back door so we wouldn’t accidentally walk out and fall down. I need to remember to be in a full state of dress when I walk through the kitchen as the back door has a window in it and I would expose myself to the workers.
Phil is working on rerouting the gas line now. He has to move the entrance point of the gas line into the house to the side of the new room. The old one was in the middle of the porch. After he gets that done, the gas company will come and move the line that runs down the middle of the yard and hook into the new connection. I won’t have an oven for a bit.
My realtor text me to let me know she is scheduling an open house for the property I am attempting to sell in Emporia. We lower the price $5,000. Hoping to get more interest in it and at least get an offer. I would make someone a really good deal just to get rid of it. It has a new roof and guttering on it. the house has two bedrooms, one bathroom, no basement.
Got the living room put together as well as it is going to be until the new room gets done. It no longer has little piles of stuff lying around. I still need to do the same to the dining room. The room feels much smaller and I am a bit claustrophobic in it but guess I will adjust – sooner or later. The good news is I have been able to find the things that I needed that got relocated. Trust that will continue.
Not sure what I am going to do about Thanksgiving this year. Not sure I have room to sit many people in this house this year. I’ll have to put on my thinking cap to come up with a solution. Maybe the weather will be nice and some could eat outside – although the front porch is full of crap too.
Kathy and I both had trouble finding sleep last night. The energy in the world is so heavy right now. It makes my heart hurt to read Facebook right now. So much anger and blame and very little love. I may take a Facebook break except for the Love in Action page and to post my blog.
This is eclipse season and things are really stirred up. It feels a bit to me we are experiencing extreme chaos before good can emerge. Just like this little construction project I have going on. It feels very chaotic and unsettling but I know something better is ahead for me. I trust that is true for our nation. Sometimes we have to completely break something to allow for new growth to come through. We have got to find a way to reconnect to our neighbors and find the things we have in common instead of focusing on the things we don’t. Blame, labeling, name calling is all adding to the negative energy that is stirred up big time right now. Let’s give love a chance!
I reread my blog from my walk on the Camino ten years ago. On this day back then I lost a toenail. I ended the walk leaving six toenails in Spain – a little DNA trail of its own! Ten years ago I walked 16.2 miles. Rather sure I couldn’t do that today. What an adventure that was – truly a once in a lifetime trip.
No plans for the weekend. I will continue working on cleaning the house and finding new homes for all the things I relocated from the porch. I need to go through my desk again and make sure I don’t have something that needs attention.
Spending time rebalancing myself and anchoring myself into love today. The world doesn’t feel very safe to me right now and I know that is not my truth. There is so much love and goodness and kindness happening around me but somehow it feels covered up right now. I need to sit with my feelings and allow them to be what they are until I can find the love that is there and allow it to surface and overcome the darkness around me.
Grateful for my Camino experience, grateful the old porch is down, and grateful the living room is cleaned up.