Hiya, folks! 🙂
Today was a bit slower, all the way around, and it was nice! Had three cars on the schedule for Malaki, which, turned out to be one too many, but we’ll get there.
Aaaaaand, none on the schedule for me. 🙃
With it being a little slow, I told Malaki to sleep in, which (unbeknownst to me) was good for him, since he didn’t get to bed until like 2 a.m. He got to the first job about 11, a car with an odd issue that wouldn’t replicate. Meanwhile, I was running errands that have needed to been run.
I picked up my dump trailer from the trailer place.
I went to the DMV to renew the registration on my BMW and my Civic (the registration for both expired at the end of August, and my niece is using my Civic in Utah, so I needed to get that taken care of).
I went to the post office to mail off the new registration sticker.
I moved my trailers to the side of the upper field by where my mini exes are.
I got the rest of my junk moved out of the middle of the field (wood and cinder blocks).
I cleaned up a problem patch in the upper field (where old rotten boards had been dumped and where the dirt was piled up, making it not mowable. I gathered up the boards and put them by the dumpster, and I smoothed out all the dirt and got rid of all the weeds that had grown sky high. So now instead of a 20 foot diameter, sky-high weed decoration in the field, it’s a flat dirt spot that will soon be back full of weeds, but with the dirt flat and the boards gone, it will be nice mowed weeds like everything else. 🙃
We don’t do real grass out in the country. It’s just groomed weeds. 🙃
I think it still looks great, though.
Anyway, that took a little while. Then I went over to my hill brother Jim’s place and helped them weed their grow boxes and surrounding areas. That took a while as well, but it was nice to help out. I know I like it when I can see a visual improvement. It lifts the spirits just a little bit. Whereas, coming home every day to the reminder of what still needs to be done can increase the emotional/psychological load felt.
So… that was good.
Also went out to lunch with my friend Miguel, where I suspended my vegan. He wanted to do a sushi buffet, and I realized, after I’d filled my plate, that they had plenty of vegan options. 🙃
Oops.
Anyway, Malaki struggled a bit today. It was a… tuition day, so to speak. He looked at the torque specs for a job and had the wrong ones, so he significantly over torqued the intake manifold bolts, stretching the bolts and breaking one of them.
😬
But he owned up to it, figured out how to correct his error, and that was that. He’s doing well. Errors are to be expected. Heaven knows I’ve made my share of them.
He ended up not being able to do the third job because he had to take an emergency trip out of state to rescue a stranded family member, so he’ll be back tomorrow some time.
Anyway, good day. It’s before midnight, so that’s even better.
I’m going to do a little meditating before bed. I did better today, but I still need to find myself. I’m still rather lost. I worked hard to look on the bright side today, and it was a good day; but my lack of faith in good things to come makes choosing positivity really hard because if I don’t have faith in a happy future, the little nice moments of the present don’t do much.
Still, I have to look on the bright side if I’m gonna restore faith that something good might still be on the horizon for me. And today I did a decent job. So we’ll call today a win in that department. 🙂
- I’m grateful that I was understanding and patient with Malaki’s pretty big goof.
- I’m grateful that I was able to get a handful of things done today that have been on the list to do.
- I’m grateful that I didn’t get all chiggered up spending so much time in the tall weeds
- I’m grateful that when mosquitos bite me, rarely does the itch last longer than a couple of hours. It can be pretty intense in the beginning, but it rarely lasts.
- I’m grateful that there was no line to speak of at the DMV and neither was there one at the post office. 🥳
Love and hugs to all you wonderful people you. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
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