Rain! Rain has arrived on the prairie at long last. My Tempest weather station is reporting a little over 4 inches. Others around me are reporting more – up to almost 8 inches east of Matfield Green. It is so wonderful to have a rainy day all day. You can hear the earth drinking in the moisture. We have a chance for even more rain tomorrow and then again next week.
We don’t have any water in our pipes though. There was a water break in Cottonwood Falls this morning that stopped the water flow to Strong City and the Rural Water District I am on. We might get it back sometime tomorrow.
I need to go down and do chickens. I may have to go to Emporia to get water for them. I have two cases of bottled water but do I really want to take a case down and dump it bottle by bottle into the chicken watering can? Ummmm… I’ll go down and do the chores in a bit and see how much water they need and then decide what to do. They might be OK for one day but by tomorrow afternoon they will need eight gallons of water to fill their containers.
I have spent a quiet day at home listening to the rain. It woke me up a couple times during the night. It sounded funny and I finally figured out that without any working guttering, the rain falls off the roof differently then it does with guttering. I kept thinking water was dripping inside the house until I figured it out. Grateful it was not inside dripping.
I fixed another 65 favors for the health fair. The coordinator told me they are hoping for around 150. We shall see if that many come. I’m doing a game type thing and they can win a prize if they are willing to play. I may end up handing them out though, we shall see how it goes.
Listened to another boundary class last night. It kinda freaked me out. She was describing how relationships can go bad and it was if she was talking directly to me. She even mentioned how many pictures on a wall is too many! Wow! She nailed it on the head.
When two people join in a relationship, there is a myth that they become one. However, if that happens, you can get lost in it. There is usually a giver and a taker and the taker can take over and the giver usually then plays smaller and smaller to keep the peace. The giver ends up empty and the relationship falls apart. Yep! I felt that one!
This is such good stuff. I need to watch the whole series again when I get done. I want to make sure I don’t miss something. I have two more lessons to go before I am done. Both of those sessions look interesting too
There is a chance we will get some snow over the weekend. We should get a hard freeze Sunday night. The high temperatures next week will be the mid 40’s. Dang! Not sure I am mentally prepared for that.
Starting to feel a bit disconnected from the rest of the world. I have been isolating myself lately and haven’t reached out to very many people. It is time for me to start rejoining the real world. Not sure how I will do that yet but starting to feel the urge. This nesting time has been good for my soul but too much alone time is not healthy for me.
Grateful for rain on the prairie, may it fill the ponds and wells, grateful for a quiet day at home, and grateful I am not too old to learn more about myself.