After I finished mowing yesterday around 3:00 I came in and took a shower and put my night-gown on. About 7:30 I couldn’t keep my eyes open and went to bed. Woke up around midnight and have been up since. May be a long day.
I went for an hour’s walk this morning. I was dripping sweat by the time I got back home. It felt good to finally move my body. One disadvantage of living at the top of a hill is the walk back towards home is all up hill. I only walked two miles but it is a start. I used my new walking sticks and wore my new back pack. I didn’t like the walking sticks as well as my old pair. The handles aren’t as comfortable. They don’t fit inside my carry on bag so may look to see if I can find a pair that has different handles and will fit in my carry on bag. I didn’t put any weight inside the back pack as I want to get used to it first. Every day I walk I will add more weight to it. Less than a month before I leave for Japan.
Went into Emporia to get food for my critters for next week. My little car sat low coming home as I had over 200 pounds of chicken feed, dog food, cat food, oats, and black oil sunflower seeds in the back of it. I got my exercise putting all those bags in my cart and loading it in and out of the car. I am stocked up for a bit now. I forgot people food again though.
I finally heard back from the Camino Kumano Kodo folks. They sent me a link to pick out the tour guide and route we want to take. I was too tired last night to figure it out. Nothing is familiar or easy with the names of the towns and routes and I am not sure which they are referring to. I sent the link to Nicole to see if she can figure it out. I didn’t realize we have several options each day as to which route we want to take.
I’m glad I went ahead and paid for most of the reservations as I didn’t hear back from them in the 48 hour time limit I had to pay for what they sent me or have to start completely over. They are working on processing my other night stay as well as the first day bag transfer. Once that is confirmed I at least know we have a place to stay each night on the trail and that we won’t have to pull our carry on bag with us. The guide is optional anyways so if that doesn’t work out we are still good to go.
I went downstairs last night to get some yarn to start my fourth baby blanket. I am out of baby blanket yarn! The kind of yarn I really like was discontinued some years ago. I bought all the remaining yarn the store had at a sale price. Guess I have worked it all up. I picked up another kind when I was in town today. I’ll try it and see if I like it – may have to go shopping for yarn when I am in KC next week. I haven’t bought yarn for several years. I still have lots of shawl yarn left.
The last several days I have noticed a icky smell by my bedroom doors. It smelt like a water leak. I went downstairs twice checking to make sure I didn’t have a water leak. I could not figure out where the smell was coming from. When I got up last night I finally realized it was from the vases of fresh flowers I had on each side of the fireplace mantel. I dumped the flowers out and washed the vases out. The smell is gone this morning. Sometimes I over look the obvious.
Need to go to town and get gas for my mower and to fill my car up. I forgot to do that when I was in Emporia. I did remember to stop at the bank to make a deposit. I even had gas on my list and still forgot. I think my brain is tired today.
Beautiful summer day on the prairie today. Bright blue skies and lots of warm sun. All is well!