(written on the 30th from notes taken yesterday)
I guess I slept in a little bit longer today, because I barely got up in time to see Heather off to work.
I was still bleary eyed as she rolled away. 🙃
I spent some time working on my morning dailies, but I didn’t get almost any of my physical therapy done. 😬
I dragged the horse apples into oblivion, and I’m going to try and do that twice a day now to help keep the flies down.
Let’s see… the windows guy and the materials guy came today, which was great. 🙏 Most of what they talk about is over my head, as I just don’t have the experience or education yet to understand what all they are talking about, but Heather and Hans understand.
After they left, I spent some time working on Rover. The ferry lights that I bought arrived a handful of days ago, or so, but there were some planks of wood adhered to the underside of the fiberglass that I had yet to remove that were in the path I wanted to use for stringing up the fairy lights.
I’m a little concerned that the fairy lights aren’t going to be very bright. I bought a string with something like 500 lights on it, I think, but when I turned them on while they were still spooled up, they seemed pretty dim.
Hopefully that was just because they’re spooled up. 🤞
Anyway, so I managed to get those boards removed and some of the other leftover construction adhesive removed as well. 🙏 It’s not easy, requiring careful use of a hammer and chisel to get it off.
If I wanted to get every last bit of it off, I’d need to use my grinder, but I don’t really have the desire to spend a whole bunch of time putting up plastic for the dust and getting myself one of those expensive filters to breed through.
If he were younger, I might go through the hassle (and also paint the inside of the fiberglass shell), but Rover has more than 280,000 miles on him now, so he might not last a whole lot longer.
Hopefully, he will 🤞, but I think I’ll save putting that kind of time and effort into my next traveling home?
We’ll see.
I spent a good long time working on my journal catch-up efforts, going back to days that I had already written about and spending a ton of time correcting them, as I think I got events mismatched.
Ugh.
So. much. wasted. time.
C’mon, Stephen, just write every night like you used to.
Please.
[sigh]
I think I watched YouTube videos to catch up on the tech news that I love so much while I did the dishes. Got myself and lunch and worked more on my journal catch-up efforts, as I’m so far behind again. 😕
I put some gas in the four-wheeler and dragged the horse apples again. Then I did a little bit of weeding, pulling out a whole bunch of thistles.
The horses seem to enjoy eating the thistles, so I called them over and fed them. 🙃
Did some more journaling… and some more weeding and thistle feeding. Chatted with Heather and Hans for a bit… listened to a great and somewhat surprising talk from nearly 40 years ago from Elder Packer, veged out, took journal notes 😕, and called it a night.
I’ve been feeling myself slipping spiritually a little bit over the last few days, and that… isn’t so great.
At the same time, I can really feel the difference when I fill my life with gospel things as opposed to… not.
And that is wonderful for me. I’ve wanted to get back to that place. I love the peace and serenity that comes with filling my life with light. 🤍
I’m grateful. 🙏
Oh! First big toad of the year. You can’t tell from the picture, but it’s probably about half the size of my fist?
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 