Two months married as of today. The time is flying by. I thought time would slow down due to being in isolation but it hasn’t. I can’t believe it has been two months since we got married. Although I still forget we are married sometimes. Living with Jim is easy and getting married didn’t change anything. That is nice.
Got up this morning and got to work mowing. I had to come in twice to cool down and slow down my heart rate. My B/P was low again this morning. The third time I went out the mower started sounding different. I thought it was about out of gas so headed to the house. Got ready to put gas in it and realized I hadn’t screwed the gas cap on tight and it had fallen off. I have looked all over for it but can’t find it. Got on the computer and looked at the manual for his mower and got the part number for the gas cap. Went to Amazon and found one and ordered it. Should be here in a couple of days. One way to get out of mowing for a bit! Dang it anyways – I wanted to finish the mowing today.
Got the rest of the painting done. Jim did something to another board and had me paint it too. They are all ready to be put up in the closet when he gets around to it. I have some more painting to do in the closet but he discovered the floor wasn’t even and had to call the guys back to fix the beam. They are to come tomorrow morning so maybe tomorrow afternoon I can paint the woodwork inside the closet. It sure seems hard to finish a project sometimes.
Jim is out running errands. I posted on Facebook I have extra masks to give away and several people responded. I have given away over 50 so far today but still have 80 or so left. Jim had several packages to mail for me today as well as a couple of letters. He is also doing our grocery shopping for the week.
I’ve run out of projects to do today. Maybe when Jim gets back from running his errands he can find something else he needs me to do. I have chicken tenders marinating in olive oil dressing that we will grill for dinner tonight. Doing my best to get his freezer cleaned out before June 1. I’ll see if Jim finds something on sale to put in it today – he usually does.
A local rancher posted on Facebook that all the local butcher shops are booked through the end of the year. Grateful I had contacted my local rancher to get a beef before all this madness started. She has her date to butcher booked for sometime in July. The kids and I are going to share one whole beef. I hate buying beef in the grocery store as you never know where the beef is from these days. Right off the ranch beef tastes so much better.
Wrote the grandkids their weekly letters today and Jim took them to mail. Not sure what the kids think of getting a letter from me each week but it helps me feel more connected to them. I need to write a few more letters today.
Tomorrow I have my Crisis Text Hot Line work to do at 10:00 pm. I volunteer for a two hour shift but sometimes it turns into 2.5 or even 3 hours if I take a call that takes a bit to finish up. It is getting easier each week to know what to say and how to steer the conversation to problem solving. Some just don’t want to go there and that is OK too.
Feels good to have gotten some things done today. I like productive days and am working to embrace non-productive days too. Both are needed and have purpose for me. Old habits of driving myself to be productive die hard though.
Grateful I almost got the mowing done before I lost the gas cap, grateful the painting job is complete, and grateful for those that asked for face masks and reduced my pile.