Just. Can’t. Get. Sleep. 🙃
Don’t know what it is, but I haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep since I’ve been in South Dakota. 😶
I just wake up so… early!
Anyway, not really a lot to say today. Did some morning routine stuff, then we headed up to Rapid City to run errands.
First stop was for massively overloaded gas station hot dogs from Circle K 😋. Then it was off to Walmart for vitamins and to see if they had a watch back opening tool for Hans (watch got water inside during our Cascade Falls jaunt 😬).
To Fleet Farm to try to find some new work shoes for Hans, but no dice. Then to the UPS store, so I could return some Amazon things, after which we went to Scheels and Boot Barn, still shoe/boot hunting.Â
Sam’s club for food, including some fun little Lychee nuts. 🙃
Then one last try for shoes at Runnings… no dice.
Shoes are expensive. Good gravy. I tear shoes up pretty quickly, so I don’t bother with the more expensive stuff because it doesn’t seem to last all that much longer than the cheap stuff. 🤷
On the way home, we stopped off at the tool rental place and rented a jackhammer. 😎
Pretty much the rest of the night was spent jackhammering out the bedrock where the septic line needs to go, digging the trench for the septic line, and measuring distances and placements for things.
We were interrupted for a fair bit by a pretty awesome storm that rolled through. For a time, it looked like it might bring a tornado with it, the clouds turning a really weird bluish color, some pretty interesting downdrafts and just a slight hint of swirling before it passed on fairly uneventfully.
Hail had been forecast, so I put some cardboard over my satellite dish plexiglass roof window and my two solar panels, weighting them down with rocks to keep them from blowing away in the wind.
All that preparation basically ensured that the hail wouldn’t come, which it didn’t. 🙃
After the Storm rolled by, we went back out to do more measuring and whatnot, trying to be as prepared as we could be for the day’s work tomorrow.
Really hoping to have the septic lines doug, the pit for the septic tank dug (I need to dig down about 8 ft from current grade 😶), the lines Dri-Fit in place, the distribution box hole dug and situated, and the leach lines dug as well.
Pretty ambitious, but we don’t know how long we’re going to have the backhoe. They could come and get it in the morning for all we know. Want to get as much done as we possibly can before then. 🤞
Heather got home from her business trip, with five new apple trees in the back of the truck, so we got those out, got them watered, and stored out of the wind for the night.
After that, we just spent the rest of the night eating, chatting, and chilling in the trailer.
Gratitude:
- I’m grateful for the rental place was willing to do a one-day rental for the jackhammer instead of requiring us to rent it for the whole weekend. They’ll be closed tomorrow, but they said that if we bring it back tomorrow they’ll see it on the camera, so they’ll know that we brought it back after the one day. That’s a decent amount cheaper, and we aren’t going to be using it on Sunday anyway, so good stuff.
- I’m grateful for the time I got to spend with Hans. I think that’s the first time that he and I have spent a whole day together doing things?
- During our drive up, I started chatting about one of my goals being to stop getting frustrated when things don’t go how I want them to go, to focus on the good and whatnot. I’m grateful both for that conversation, as well as Hans helping to apply that later in the day. 🥳
- I’m grateful we were able to get a fair bit done today after getting back late from a long day running errands in Rapid.
- I’m grateful the return of the Amazon stuff went pretty smoothly.
Success:
- I avoided going to less effective places online, despite being tempted to waste my time and energy there.
Improvement:
- I was pretty sarcastic today. That can be funny, but it’s also… not great sometimes. I was in a sarcastic, playful mood today. Lots of jokes and making Hans laugh. 😊
Love to all the world! 😊💚
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 