My rancher guy showed up last night to burn. He had looked at the forecast for the rest of the week and decided it was not going to be better conditions than tonight so he came and got it over with. He came close to sunset so we got to watch a night burn. It went easily and safely. He didn’t burn one little patch as he was afraid the hay that is stored by it was too close to the edge and there was too big of a chance of it burning. Good to have the pasture burned for the year.
I went out late morning to mow. On my third trip around the back yard I saw a killdeer acting like it was trying to distract me from something. When I came around the next time I spotted a nest with four eggs in it laying on the ground. I stopped when I got up to the house to get my phone so I could take a picture of it. When I got back down to the area where the nest was, it took me five minutes to find it. They hide them in plain sight well. I will keep an eye on the nest and see if I can see the babies. Hopefully the rain that is to come in this week won’t wash them away.
I finally gave up mowing. It is hard to tell where I have been and it is windy and dusty out there. I have dirt in all sorts of places on my body. My eyes are going to take a few days to wash all the dirt out of them. I got about 50% of the yard mowed before I gave up. Maybe if we get some rain this week I can get the rest mowed up.
The yard is extra bumpy this year. Jim had gotten the U-Haul truck stuck when he moved out and then the tow truck that he called to pull the U-Haul out got stuck. My handyman filled in the trenches the trucks made but it is rough riding in the back yard.
I haven’t felt 100% today. Not sure what is wrong. I am more tired than I have been and just feel off. I don’t have a temperature. It could be my body adjusting to the heat. It reached over 80 today. I don’t do well in heat. We will see what tomorrow brings.
Picking up the groceries from Walmart last night was smooth and easy. I didn’t have to wait very long before they brought the groceries out to me and loaded them in the back of my car. I got everything I ordered. I will definitely do on-line ordering again. The only thing I couldn’t get that I wanted was a bag of ice. If they offer it on-line, I couldn’t find it.
I opened the door this afternoon for the chicks to go outside. I have checked a couple of times and so far none were outside. When I went down last night to close the door, one chick was outside. We played run around the coop a couple of times until she finally went inside. Dang girl anyways!
Slowly working on getting my whole house cleaned. I have gotten a start on it. Hard to clean when it is so windy and I know the dust is being blown inside. Will do the best I can do and call it good. If you don’t like dust, don’t come to my house!
My 10-day quarantine ends tomorrow night. It will be good to know that if I want to get out, it is safe for me to do so. I don’t have anywhere I need to go, so will probably stay home for a bit longer. Now that I can get groceries without going in a store, I may never shop in a store again.
Still sitting in a good head space although I am feeling a bit restless today. Not sure what is behind the restlessness although I have a situation happening in the family that is hard and there is nothing I can do to help. Still daily testing for a Covid rebound so I don’t expose someone unknowingly. I will be grateful when I can put Covid Round Two to bed and be done with it and know my chances of having a rebound case no longer exist.
Grateful for the killdeer nest I found today, grateful the pasture was safely burned, and grateful for a warm, spring day.