Happy birthday to my beautiful daughter Nicole. She has been thrown a curve ball in life and has handled it with much grace and dignity. Trusting this new year will be a great year for her.
I got my entire yard mowed this morning. Usually I break it up into two mowing periods but it was so nice and cool out today I was able to get it all done without needing a break. Kathy is out weed eating now. Good to have the yard ready for the weekend.
I went into Cottonwood Falls to take my recycle stuff to the trailer. Shout out to Chase County for making that process very easy. Since I don’t have to sort it I think I will start filling my kitten litter containers with mixed recyclable material and every time I go to the gym take the full containers to dump out. I sure can tell the difference in the amount of trash going to the curb.
Since I was in Cottonwood Falls I stopped at the full-service gas station on Main Street and ask if they could tell me why my check engine light had come one. The service guy hooked up his little machine to my car and within a minute told me my gas cap had not gotten on tight enough last time I got gas. He didn’t charge me for the service he provided. My mentor told me if I took it to a dealer it would cost $90 just for them to run the diagnostic test. I love living in a small town that provides service like this.
I filled my car up and filled my two five-gallon gas cans. It was a successful trip to town.
I have gotten all I wanted to get done today done and it is just now noon time. Too early to start cleaning house for my weekend guests. Guess that means I get to play this afternoon. I may go to the falls at the Chase County Lake. It is such a beautiful day I want to be outside and enjoy it. Won’t be much longer and the heat of summer will arrive and I won’t want to be outside.
The lady from the Fiji Mission called me yesterday. I had a list of questions to ask her. I am still very interested in going there the first of next year. I will probably stay at the Mission project for ten weeks and will go to either Australia or New Zealand for a week before I go to Fiji. Although I might go to a resort on Fiji Island for a week instead of going to New Zealand or Australia. It would be cheaper to do that. I need some time to adjust to the 17 hour time change and the climate change. If I stayed at Fiji it would give me a chance to adapt a bit to their culture before I show up at Camp. It will be summer time there in January.
I learned that Internet is not available at camp but they have Internet cafe’s in town if I go to town on the weekends. I can get an international phone that has Internet service if I want to have daily Internet although keeping a phone charged can be an issue as their electricity is not always available. Cell phone service can also be a bit unpredictable. Has anyone traveled internationally that could advise me of what I need and how it works? Maybe a solar charger? I am not very technology smart.
My cousin text me yesterday to let me know my dad’s brother’s wife had died. She lived in Colorado Springs and I haven’t seen her since Dad died in 2000. She had called me two years ago at Christmas time and caught me up on her three daughters and their families. If I didn’t have guests coming this weekend I would have considered driving out for her services. Because they lived in Colorado we didn’t see them very often. I remember taking vacations when I was a child to Colorado and staying with them. She had a stroke several years ago and had been in poor health since. Not too many of that generation left in my family now. Funny to think of myself as the oldest generation in the family. I don’t feel old enough for that to be true.
This beautiful weather is giving me some new energy. I could live in a climate like this year round. There is a gentle breeze today which is helping make it feel even cooler than it is. The skies are bright blue and lots of sun shine. Doesn’t get much better than today anywhere.
Beautiful day. All is well on the prairie today!