Another busy day. I went to Emporia around noon. I met Jason and Michelle for lunch. That was my reward for going to town.
After lunch I dropped off a set of keys to the realtor that is handling the sale of my last rental property. They let me know the closing has been moved to November 12. I am not going to change the utilities turn off date. They will just have to deal!
I stopped by Price Chopped and ordered the cookies for the Detention Center Thanksgiving project. The cookies were cheaper than I thought they would be which is a good thing as we are ordering more pizza than anticipated. Things do have a way of balancing out.
I went to Walmart and picked up the last few items I needed for my trip. I also got 20 more gift cards for the Detention Center project. I remembered to get some leftover containers for Thanksgiving.
On the way home I stopped and dropped off my payment for my water bill. Last time I mailed it the postal service took three weeks for the check to get to the water department.
A dear friend sent Kathy and I an invitation for dinner and a chance to watch the full super moon rise. Can’t resist that! Had a delightful evening watching the moon rise over the prairie. That is the only thing I miss about living at the big country house – sunrises, sunsets, moon rises and moon sets. For some reason tonight I could see the aura of the earth. Hadn’t seen that for a long time and it came without thinking about it.
While I was at Walmart I found some containers that will work to start my hyacinths bulbs. I want to force them to grow inside so that they will be close to blooming by Christmas. I think I found a spot to put them. This house doesn’t have lots of extra space but there is a shelf below the TV that I can use and only have to move a couple of things. Hopefully they will root and grow and be close to blooming by Christmas. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Tomorrow a group of us are going to Wichita for lunch and then are going to the Van Gogh experience. Looking forward to a day with some of my closest friends.
Friday I will pack and run the last of my errands. I leave the house at 6:00 am Saturday morning to start my trip to India. Nicole and I will fly to NYC Saturday, spend the night at a hotel close to the airport and then fly to India Sunday morning. I read where the government is forcing a reduction of 10% of all flights starting Friday. Fingers crossed our flights will not be delayed or cancelled. It will be an adventure – perhaps more of one than expected.
Still haven’t heard back from the lady that was to build my little food pantry box. Not sure what is up with that but I will shelve that project until I get back from my trip. If she doesn’t have it built my then I will find someone else to build it.
Haven’t heard back from the attorney that is drawing up non-profit paperwork for the Love in Action project. That too can wait till I get back if needed.
I am tired again tonight. A couple hours in Emporia drains me. Tomorrow will be fun but I will come home exhausted. Hoping to avoid a trip to Emporia Friday but am thinking I may need to run to town again. I forgot to get trim paint today. It can wait till spring if needed but it would be nice to make the outside of the addition look complete. Phil got the high parts of the main color painted already. He is waiting on the trim paint to do the top of the addition.
I am hoping that with the election results yesterday our national politicians will get the message that we want the government to reopen and solutions given to the medical insurance crisis. I think the government will either get reopened next week or it won’t get open until after the New Year. We are headed to not having a functioning government even pretending to take care of business. Mid term elections are still a year away so we still have lots of time for the current administration to do lots more damage.
I still don’t have test results from the heart monitor that I wore a couple of weeks ago. If I remember I will call and ask about it. Wonder if it got lost when I sent it back via UPS. Guess it is a good thing it wasn’t urgent. Won’t be anything I can do about it if they found something until I get back from my trip. What’s three more weeks with an inconsistent rapid heartbeat anyways?
It was such a delight to watch the moon rise tonight. My soul needed that energy. It reminded me to slow down and reconnect with the natural rhythm of the earth. There is something about the energy of the moon that calls to me. I love that it ebbs and flows in its cycle.
Grateful for friends that share my love of the moon and invited us out to bask in the glory of the full moon, grateful my to-do list is getting shorter, and grateful for the election results last night.