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The weather outside is //
As I look outside my window // The temperatures are inching warmer and warmer and I’m anxious to get going with this growing season. You should see my list of projects to complete…insanity, ha! A few on the list for this week include finishing up our chicken tractors, amending the garden soil and working on the construction of a new wood shed. The forecast doesn’t look promising, but I’m praying for a few little pockets of sunshine.
As I look around the house // It still looks quite haphazard with projects in progress everywhere too! We managed to install the new oven ourselves, but now have the old one waiting in the foyer to be taken to the dump. I’m still working on the walls in the laundry room (almost done!) but that also means that I have detergent and laundry baskets hanging out in the kitchen. It’s a hot mess over here right now.
Adjusting // to my Lenten sacrifice of less noise; I gave up listening to the news, Youtube videos, podcasts, etc. I’m embarrassed to admit that it’s been harder than I expected! I didn’t realize how much of my day is filled with this auditory information overload. My newfound silence is a little deafening. Ultimately, I know this will be good for me and will allow more space for me to hear God’s still, small voice.
On this week’s to-do list //
– finish last minute tasks for baby chick arrival – they come on Thursday!
– take the old oven to the dump
– look into a new provider for emailing my posts to subscribers (I’ve been having trouble with my current plugin – apologies to anyone who hasn’t been receiving emails!)
– start more seeds under grow lights
– pick a paint color for the laundry room
– get a chunk stitched on my cross-stitch project
Thinking // about a book I read last year called The Wives of Los Alamos. The story described how WWII was raging and the husbands were squirreled away working on secret, scary things…but the women had to live their ordinary lives the best they could. Kids still needed to be fed, jobs still needed to be completed, houses still need to be tended to. Such a weird dichotomy of normal, everyday life in the midst of abnormal turmoil and upheaval. In some ways, we’ve all felt this a little bit the last two years.
Currently reading //
- Fiction: Three Sisters by Heather Morris
- Nonfiction: Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown and We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter
- Religious: The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr. Charles Arminjon
- Read Aloud: Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
On the menu this week //
Monday: chicken alfredo baked ziti and salad
Tuesday: beef stroganoff
Wednesday: breakfast enchiladas (for dinner!)
Thursday: Refrigerator Cleanout Night
Friday: creamy tomato tortellini soup
New baby chicks, how exciting :). I have felt what you mention regarding The wives of Los Alamos not during the lockdowns but the last couple of weeks for sure