It was -6 degrees when I woke up this morning. That is too cold for beast or man. Burrrr.. Can it be spring yet?
I used the remote start on my car to warm it up before I left for Manhattan. It still had some ice on the windows 20 minutes later. I had to scrap them. Yuck! I need to get a better scraper as the one I used today didn’t work well.
Drove to Manhattan and spent the day with a friend that fell last week and hurt her hip. Luckily nothing was broken but she is still moving slowly and is sore. I drove her to her Physical Therapy appointment at 10:30. While she was doing PT I went to the Dillons in Manhattan and got the groceries she had on her list.
I was so impressed with the grocery store. I had to ask for help a couple times so I could find what my friend wanted. Every person I interacted with was helpful and friends. The check out lady was one of the best checkers I have ever encountered.
Took the groceries to my friend’s house and put them away and then went and picked up my friend from PT. We stopped and got a pizza for lunch from Papa Murphy’s and went home and baked the pizza. I put a load of laundry in for my friend and then later put it in the dryer and carried it upstairs for her.
After lunch we visited for a bit and then we both took a nap. I didn’t sleep well last night and the nap was good for me so I could drive home safely.
I stopped at Hays House for dinner. They have the best chicken tenders. Came home and got home right before dark. I saw the most unusual thing in the sky on the way home. It would get long and then shorter and seemed to be floating. Whatever it was shining in the sunset light. I stopped and snapped a picture of it. The picture I took isn’t impressive but it will remind me of what I saw. It felt magical for some reason.
When I got up this morning I took a hot shower. I flushed the toilet after using it after my shower and noticed it sounded funny but didn’t think too much about it. Kathy let me know that she discovered the cold water line in the house was frozen up. I put a space heater in the bathroom and then sent a text to my savior Phil.
He was out on a job but said he would come work on it if it didn’t open up by later afternoon. He told me to keep the cold water tap in the bathroom open. By the time Phil got here the water had thawed and was running. Phil was going to put a space heater under the house but the door to the crawl space was too frozen to open. I’m grateful the water line opened on its own. I will keep the space heater running overnight in the bathroom. It is to warm up tomorrow and only be 17 overnight tonight and be in the lower 30’s on Wednesday. I’m grateful this cold wave didn’t last as long as last years did.
I may have to have Phil look at the pipes this summer and see what needs to be done to prevent them from freezing up again next winter. Now I know that I need to keep a space heater in the bathroom on cold winter nights.
Nicole sent me the link to the recorded meditation from yesterday. If anyone would like to view it let me know and I will email it to you. The meditation was wonderful and the Q&A afterwards was excellent.
Tomorrow I have a tax class at 3:00 and then I am meeting Jason, Michelle and Ellexia for dinner at 5:00. It will be good to see two of the kids and spend some time with them. I have Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter balls for them. I had made them for Tagen’s birthday and made plenty to share with the others.
Thursday I have a free day and then Friday I have to go to Emporia for an exercise session. After Friday I only have two more sessions!
No plans for the weekend. I’m sure I will have some more tax homework to do and I would like to get my own tax package put together. I will find time to watch the Chiefs game on Sunday. The net week so far all I have on my calendar is exercise on Monday. I’ll probably be adding a tax class but we shall see.
It was fun to spend the day with my friend. We had a good heart to heart talk which is always good for my soul.
Still riding the high from the meditation yesterday. I’m grateful we were able to do that on Inauguration Day. The meditation reminded me to stay focused on things that I can do something about and to remember the national stuff is going to do its thing and there isn’t much I can do about it. I have really been limiting my media consumption this week and have blocked several sites on Facebook and have unsubscribed to several news emails that I used to get.
Grateful for time with a friend, grateful for a safe trip to and from today, and grateful the water line thawed out.