Busy day in Emporia today. I went to the bank and got the denominations in cash that I need for the Christmas games. Stopped at Bobby D’s for lunch. It was good as usual.
I went to the new Chiropractor in Emporia, Joel Cundiff. He has a first time client special for $29 which included the adjustments he did on me today. He has a monthly fee of $59 and you get four adjustments throughout the month for that fee. He doesn’t do appointments except for new patients. You come in during his normal office hours and he takes you in order of first come, first serve.
I signed up for a month of visits and will then decide if I want to continue or not. I liked his approach today and he seemed to find my sensitive spots quickly. I trust he will be able to get me some relief from my constant headaches.
After that visit I got my car washed. Not sure it did much good as V Rd is one big mud pit but the car was clean for a hot minute today while I was in town.
I went into Walmart and picked up the last three Christmas gifts I needed and a few other things I forgot to put on my on-line order. By the time I checked out, my pick-up order was ready to be picked up. I did that and then came home. I forgot I had loaded my car with recycling material and the whole back of my car was full. Luckily I didn’t get many groceries this week and everything fit in the front seat.
Came home and got everything unloaded. Went down and did the chicken chores. The snow melted a lot today and it was easy going today. No dead chickens and 12 eggs from the girls today.
I had to unload some of the recycling so I could load the trash can in the back of the car to take down to the curb. The trash can was extra heavy due to all the Thanksgiving extra stuff. Kathy helped me get it loaded into the car. It is easy to pull out of the car but a bit hard to lift it up into the car.
I picked up the mail and then came in and put all the groceries away. I feel like I have done a days work in that trip to town.
Before I went to town this afternoon I made a batch of fudge. Kathy taste tested it for me and said it was good. I may make a batch of peanut brittle yet tonight and maybe a second batch of fudge. I need a sunny day to do those two things and we are to get some weather the next couple of days and sunshine will be hard to find. If I don’t get them all made, it is to be clear most of next week and I can wait and do it then.
I talked to Nicole today and we have decided to postpone the Himalayan trip until 2025. It was going to be a challenge for Nicole to get it in next year. She has a big trip next spring planned and has a small one planned for September. It would have used up the rest of her vacation time and she likes to save some for emergencies and personal days.
I will look at doing a different walking trip by myself later in 2024. There is one to the Swiss Alps that sounds fun as well as one to Costa Rica. I haven’t been to either of those places so will check those out and decide if either one of those is calling me to come. I need a reason to start exercising and putting something on my calendar would do the trick.
I learned some time ago not to push something if I don’t have a green light all the way. The Himalayan trip felt like I had a yellow flashing light with it for some reason and with Nicole on the fence it felt like we needed to postpone it. I’m good with that. For some reason, I feel like I have a red light on that trip to attempt to going solo. I have to trust my intuition and honor that feeling.
Got a bill from my plumber today. I had sent him a check when I got the bill a month ago. I called him and he said he never received my check. While I was at the bank today I had them check and sure enough the check has not cleared. I will send another check tomorrow. Sure wish the post office would get its act together and deliver what I mail. This is the second check that I have mailed that has vanished. Where do they go? That is the question of the day?.
I woke up around 7:00 this morning. Came out to the living room and was struck by the beauty of the pre dawn light. Took my medication and got dressed and came back out and the light was even more amazing. The sun was just starting to rise. I took a picture of it and when I came back in the house looked west. The west sky was beautiful too with the full moon low on the horizon. I took a picture of it too. Hard to know which way to look – east or west. I love the winter colors of the sunrise and sunsets on the prairie.
I missed the full moon rising last night. I had looked up when the full moon was for November and must have gotten last year’s date as I thought the full moon was last week. I should have known it was yesterday as both Kathy and I had emotional, hard days. I need to trust my inner knowledge better as it was telling me it was the full moon day.
Nothing on my calendar until the Pioneer Bluffs newsletter is ready for me to get it ready to mail. Still some moving parts with that project so not sure when it will be ready. I will keep working on making Christmas treats and then will take a break from those when the newsletter is ready for me to work on.
I just took five and watched the almost full moon rise. It is a beauty tonight. 97% full and bright orange. It will be a beautiful night on the prairie watching the almost full bright moon cast moon shadows on the snow on the prairie.
Feels good to have all my errands taken care of today and one batch of fudge successfully made. It will feel even better to be able to stay home for the next couple of days. I haven’t heard if the window guys will be here tomorrow or not. We are to get a wintery mix the next couple of days so they might not come. Next week we are to be in the upper 40’s during the day and that would be a better week for them to work. I’ll see what happens.
Grateful for the beauty of the rising sun and setting moon this morning and the rising moon tonight. Grateful my Christmas shopping is done, and grateful to have found a competent Chiropractor at a price I can afford.