Happy birthday to my daughter Nicole. What a joy it is to be her mother. I am grateful she choose me 35 years ago.
Had a strong storm come through last night. Lost power for about two hours. My guest came up and watched the lightning show with us. He is a very pleasant young man. Glad he felt comfortable coming up. He is from Iowa and is used to storms like we had last night. He had been watching a movie downstairs when the power went out. Didn’t get much rain but it hailed and we had strong winds and rain for a bit.
The chicken fence bent over during the storm but not enough to be of concern. Sometime Kathy and I will go out and attempt to push it back up. I tried to do it alone this morning and needed more muscle. I need to get a wind proof tarp to replace the solid one Kathy had put up on the fence. When the wind blows the solid ones make the fence heavy and it bends. The tarps with the holes in them are much lighter and don’t effect the fence so much.
The dogs electronic monitor boxes beeped to remind me the power was off last night. We found Sophia and Starr and got them in the garage. Couldn’t find Roxy. She was around this morning. Not sure they would run away anyways but didn’t want to take a chance.
Have a lunch date today. We are driving out to the Chase County Fishing Lake and having a picnic. Beautiful day to do so. I had opened the house last night after we lost power. It was nice to have fresh air in the house. Closed the house back up this morning so the A/C won’t have to work so hard to keep it cool when it warms up this afternoon.
Have a request for a 13 week stay from a traveling Physical Therapist. They are waiting to see if they get the contract before they commit. I hadn’t anticipated getting long stays like that but am willing to try it once. If they are like my guest this week it will be no issue at all.
I will need to mow Friday morning. Not sure when the six guests I have coming in Friday are arriving. If I get out and get mowing early I can have it done before check-in time at 2:00. I also need to do some cleaning inside before they come. Would prefer mowing to cleaning inside. Need to remember to get gas for the mower today while I am out and about. Also need to get the backyard fire pit propane bottle replaced. I had to put a new one on for my guests last weekend.
Got the second bedroom beds made up. Took the sheets off the two twin beds in the room that I am putting the queen bed in. When the delivery guys come they are going to move the two twin beds downstairs for me and take the broken frame back with them to fix. I am doing the bed shuffle this week!
Lost another pound! I have lost six pounds since I came home a week ago. Fastest six pounds yet. I had thought hard about going to Italy as I didn’t want to disrupt my eating plan. So glad I went. Maybe next time my weight loss stalls out I will go out-of-town for a couple of days and see if that jump starts it like it did this time. 15 pounds to go! 26 pounds released!
Still don’t see the weight loss on myself. I did notice my legs looked thinner last night in the bath tub but I don’t really feel different yet. I have read that it can take several months to adjust to being in a right size body and for my mind to accept my new body shape.
Sent a note to my guests that are coming in ten days. I didn’t know if they needed four twin beds or a queen and two twin beds. She just answered and said they would use the queen and two twins. Perfect! I have two other guests here for two nights during her stay that needed two twin beds. It all worked out just right.
Running an Airbnb has certainly been a learning experience. It is so different from a retreat center. Much easier for the most part. I am not used to working though and it is a challenge doing what I want to do and having guests. Some guests I feel very comfortable not being here and others I feel I need to hang around. I never know until they come which camp they will be in. Luckily most fall in the I can leave them camp. Just hard to make plans and commitments not knowing which camp they are in.
Having to buy a new bed kinda cut into the profits I was going to make during this long stretch with guests. If I get the 13 week guest maybe I can get ahead then.
Grateful for the rain we received on the prairie last night, grateful the wind didn’t do any damage, and grateful for another pound released.