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Good morning (for a few more minutes here anyway)

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Been a busy couple of days, but most of it has felt like I’m spinning my wheels more so than getting anything done.

My nursing ‘job’ (freelance site where I can pick up shifts) has given me a large handful of hoops to jump, tomorrow is the second half of my advanced cardiovascular life support class, I’ve done background check and drug test, next is tb test and a handful of immunizations.

My cell phone is broken, the charge port seems to be broken and it doesn’t seem to catch my chargers at all, I am using the wireless charger for now but as much as I use my CarPlay in the vehicles, it bothers me to be without the port.hopefully I can get that fixed today.

My baking efforts have been slightly off lately, (I also have had disinterest in baking lately, so they likely go hand in hand ) my kourabiedes didn’t turn out this week and I messed up my banana bread because I forgot to add sugar.

Bible reading, finished the gospels (man did they feel shorter than I thought they would) and 3 chapters into acts. I like Luke’s writing style, can’t explain why but I do.

Cold snap here has made feeding and watering animals a little more tedious, I’m getting chicken eggs regularly (averaging 3-4 a day at this point) , and getting 5-6 quail eggs a day. this weekend I am going to a farm swap in hopes of buying some more laying hens and pullets.

Looking forward to spring!

Best,

A

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And so it goes…

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Random musings for the week:

So, me writing daily just isn’t going to happen, I think of things I want to write all day, I even say them in my head and sort them and everything but then I decide that no real audience exists for a 49 year old woman’s rants or whatever.

Here are some of my thoughts for the week though:

I’ve been clearing more and more on my land with the Greenworks zero turn, it can really do some damage and is a little powerhouse. I was afraid it wouldn’t be and also was afraid to try a zero turn…:I won’t say she doesn’t have flaws (she should come with 2 full sets of batteries so you have less down time and the left front guide tire on mine has been off its wheel base since the day I bought it, which makes it hard to control at times but I also don’t know that I’d know how to get it back on myself.

I spent a few days last week looking through my months of January and February last year. I still feel I should have recourse against this hospital (as well as the one here in town for a completely different incident). I believe I’ll look again for a lawyer to talk to, my problem is, these lawyers don’t even care enough to have a conversation with you past looking at medical records. I get that the hospitals write all their stuff up just so…but sometimes it’s just not reality (I’m sorry I’ve been a nurse way too long and seen way too much over the years to think it is.

Goats should be due with babies around April 13-15, I look forward to that. My new quail have had a few hiccups (lost 6 of the 28 in less than a week due to me getting an inadequate shelter for them and having little to no visibility on their wellbeing. I have them in proper shelter now and can see them and have good accounts on the remaining birds well being. Unfortunately I also have them in the barn with the barn door open while it’s chilly out, and this means I have other random birds scouting my barn out to build their nests inside.

I still very much want to establish my flock of jubilee Orpington’s as well as a few other Orpington breeds, however I may wait a few years before I pursue that harder.

Can’t wait for my garden this year, have garlic growing full force already.

I’ll write more next week I hope. Hope you’re staying safe in the winter storms if they affect you.

Beat!

Amanda

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So, mostly a humdrum kind of day today.

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Up and did chores today, didn’t take time to walk to the garden area today because I had other things in my head.

Dental appointment this afternoon, my face is still numb and it’s been nearly 5 hours. Picked picnic stuff up for dinner tonight and had an easy night.

Grabbed a mini rose plant because my husband loved those, going to work on planting a handful of those in between the regular roses this year.

Have an appointment at 10 tomorrow for the truck to get his tires looked at and also to see why the windshield washers aren’t working, went ahead and did most of tomorrows chores tonight.

I’m really into reading my Bible for just over a year now, just got into the gospels this week, 2 chapters into Mark at the moment. Loving the reading.

Watching the chosen, I like most of it but hate when they sneak modern agendas into a timeline it didn’t exist in.

Hope you’re well, have a blessed day/week!!

Amanda

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Happy 2024.

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Hope you’ve had a great day!

Been a busy one here. Normal daily chores and beginning of the year bills for Real estate fees and such. Made black eyed peas and cabbage in the crock pot and also had cheese noodles and smoked sausage tonight for dinner.

Walked a while and did a workout (first supernatural workout of the year ) and some light reading and TV.

Tackled a few small clean up projects and wrote a letter. May write one more before bed.

Tell me about your day? Anything you’re excited about in the new year?

All the best,

Amanda

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A beautiful sight

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Last year I bought 2 beehives from a local keeper, and one of the 2 abandoned the hive within the first 2 months: I visited the other hive a few months later and it seemed they too had abandoned the hive, as there seemed to only be a few stragglers in the hive.

This made me give up on the idea of bothering with bees, I didn’t want to be part of the problem. They have enough struggles without an inexperienced keeper killing them off or whatever.

This week when I mowed the property that the hives were on, I went to check to see if there was honey left in the second hive when it was abandoned, only to find it is actually not empty but thriving. I may give it a year of working this hive and try to catch a local swarm when someone needs help with that to put in the empty hive.

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Good morning (lemons/lemonade)

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It’s almost noon here but I thought I’d sit down in the last few minutes of ‘morning-mess’ to say hello and wish all well.

I an working through 2 books at the moment during down time:

the first one is ‘the magic’ by Rhonda Byrne. It’s basically all about the fact we lack gratitude in our daily existence and that in doing so, we throw a lot of our possibilities and happiness away by taking things for granted, the whole book is one mindfulness practice after another of showing gratitude.

The second book is on the 3-6-9 method, also on mindfulness and taking things a step further than just gratitude, actually working to put positive energy, mindfulness and meditation into practice for betterment of your life, as well as betterment of the world.

I recommend both books, but not if you’re someone who chooses to tear such practices apart. You really can’t change your life unless you want it to change bad enough to throw some of the rubbish out the window during said change.

This past 2 weeks , I have made a few changes in my own routine in addition to the books and journaling and meditation that go with both. I have also been exploring and clearing my overgrown plot of land that my husband bought for us last year. I wish I’d taken some before photos, but I’ve been just inching through it with the lawnmower and cutting down 6 foot tall overgrowth throughout much of the unwooded acre and a half that’s there. It’s been a peaceful place to go and read, it’s a new place to park my trailer, I’m looking forward to a garden there next spring and I’m hoping to make a picnic area where my family and some of our neighbors can hang out, cook out, share a meal or whatever.

I’m making little changes around me in hopes to elicit bigger changes in my community, life and world.

I hope all have a good day, all the best!

~Amanda

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Phoenix rising

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After my husband passed in February, I set my resolve not to let anyone else into my world in a loving manner…I didn’t want it, I didn’t need it.

Eventually, I befriended a lovely man who was easy to talk to, easy to be around. He was not threatening and just…he fit. I haven’t fully let him in my world, but then he’s not let me fully into his.

Problem is, he has his own battles in his head, he goes quiet…for days…sometimes weeks…this makes me super insecure and anxious….I need to go back to not needing anyone I suppose.

Here’s to you,

Amanda

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