Hola, peeps! 😊
Sooooo nice to take Thursdays off. I slept in again today, meaning I’m still struggling to get up at my 5:30 goal time, but I’m making progress in other things, so that’s something. 😊
I think I got up about 7:30 ish, did some servicize outside working on the corner of the yard back by the dog shelter that I am re-landscaping. I cleaned up the last of the gravel and got it moved over to the gravel pile, so now, it’s just smoothing everything out, leveling, and letting the weeds grow on it to hold it together.
I got the mowed grass cleaned up off the sidewalk, the weeds gathered up that I’d weed whacked a few days ago. I made some major progress on the garage (spending a lot more than 5 minutes there. That one’s gonna be a few day’s worth of projects, I think, before my 5 minutes a day will feel like it’s making a dent. But… I did make some great progress there today.
I got the Durango all cleaned up and ready for tomorrow. We’ve got a bajillion cars on the schedule for tomorrow, so it’s good timing to get cleaned up and organized.
What else. Oh! I made a little project for myself and cut boards just the right size to put on top of our food storage shelves, adding an extra shelf on top to each of the ones at the bottom of the stairs as you first go down. That’s gonna add quite a bit of extra storage space down there. I’m wanting to be uber prepared–year supply of everything kind of thing (food, water, toiletries… everything), so the more space, the better. Of course, this ain’t my house, but one of these days, when the market finally crashes again, I’m gonna probably buy something. We’ll see.
Uh… I did some self surgery on some weird growth on my leg. It’s been there for years and years, and I want to say it’s getting bigger very very slowly over time? Like scar tissue that keeps building up? It was sticking out, and periodically I’ll catch it just right, and it’ll hurt super bad. It’s really weird because it just looks like scar tissue. Just this little scar-tissue looking dome sticking out. I sliced the dome part off today. 🙃
Now it’s bleeding. I might do some excavating to see what the heck is underneath the dome that keeps pushing it up? I don’t know. There’s something purple under there… Might just be blood close to the surface. We’ll see.
Anyway, massively busy day tomorrow. Lots and lots of cars to do. Wouldn’t be surprised if there end up being like 15. We’ll see. Crazy crazy.
It’s almost 10:30, so I probably better not do more self surgery tonight. I probably had better just go to bed.
Oh! I started writing a meditation for myself and for a couple of friends of mine. I’m mostly done, but I’m going to let it sit and come back to it a few times over the course of multiple days, I think, to make sure I get it how I want it before recording it.
Speaking of recordings, I spent hours today listening to my patriarchal blessing over and over and over again. There were some insights in that and some things in some other stuff I’ve felt like God told me a handful of years ago that contain a key to unlocking something super important for me. I’m excited to figure it out.
Well, I guess I’ll call it good for now.
#1. I’m grateful to be making progress here on the homestead. It’s nice to see things looking better and better and better.
#2. I’m grateful for the insights I felt like God gave me today. There were some really important ones for my path forward that I appreciate a great deal.
#3. I’m grateful for a slow, peaceful day. Unlike most days I have off, somehow today went by at a pretty leisurely pace, all the more surprising since I didn’t get up at 5:30.
#4. I’m grateful that it was a beautiful weather day to have spent a good chunk of it outside as I did.
#5. I’m grateful that we have a full day of work for David tomorrow. It’s gonna be absolutely jam packed, so hopefully, he’ll make some big bucks tomorrow. That would be cool. I hope he makes at least $250 tomorrow, and maybe even closer to $300. That might be wishful thinking, but we’ll see.
Loves and hugs, my dearies. Thanks, for joining my journey today.
Oh! Update on Cory. The surgery went well, but the pain last night was so bad he was vomiting–something like that. Pretty awful. Today the pain is much better. I know I pain. It’s soooooo bad. I’ve lacerated my eyeball multiple times, and that’s put-you-on-the-hard-stuff pain. Fortunately, eyes, usually heal pretty quickly. As of this evening, his eye is still painful, but it’s his back that’s hurting him the most, having to have his head facing down all day (while walking, lying down, etc.)
Anyway, thanks, for the thoughts and prayers sent his way.
Lift the World.
~ stephen
Lift the World 