Day 7 and Day 8

    

      Day 7 was a very lazy day.  I woke in the middle of the night, and evidently some more chiggers decided to feast on me and I was itching so bad I had to take Benadryl.  That helped put me back to sleep, but in the morning, I was still itching, and it is a painful itch.  I don’t even want to scratch them.  I took some more Benadryl and put some Young Living Essential Oil- Purification on the bites.  That helped, but the Benadryl made me drowsy, so it was just a day of watching football.  The Houston game was a nail biter all the way to the end, and I sure wish they could have pulled it off, but the Cowboys won, so that made my day.  The evening game was pretty boring so I ended up watching Columbo.  It is still a good show, even after all these years.  Funny thing about this little hunting dwelling that I am staying in, if the microwave is going, the TV goes out, and then about 11 pm every night, we lose half the stations.  I’ll be happy to be back home on Friday, watching House Hunters and American Pickers!

      While watching the football games I also read a book, “Gardening with Chickens”, Plans and Plants for You and Your Hens by Lisa Steele.  If you ever want to have backyard chickens it is a good resource.  I got it at the Bulverde Tractor Supply.  It was an easy read, lots of pictures and good advice.  I am debating whether I am going to leave it here for my son and daughter-in-law or keep it for a reference for when I get my little farm. 

     Nothing else much happened, with daylight savings time it is dark by 6:30 so our outside activities end a little earlier now.  The moon is still putting on a beautiful show, and we had clouds again last night so there was a lot of silver with the white.  I will miss the wide open skies here. 

     As not much happened yesterday, I decided to put Day 7 and Day 8 together.  It was cool enough last night to have the screen door open, so that was nice.  Today’s book I read was “out of the blue”, by Mary Terhune.  It is an account of her spiritual awakening, and had some ties to the book I read last week, The Journey Within.  It was an easy read and I am always interested in reading about other people’s spiritual transformations.  From the books I’ve read, there a few things that seem to be the same, but at the same time tailor-made for that specific person, and even though each journey is a personal one, maybe we can learn from other’s experiences, what worked for them, what didn’t, and how we might incorporate something from their journey into our own, if it is a good fit.  Both books focus on daily meditation, chants or prayers, service to others, and reading spiritual books/magazines and/or being around others who have also embraced their spiritual journey.  I know when I seriously started on my journey, 25 years ago, I lived in a very small town, and there was no one to talk to about how I was feeling or what I was going through, and not really that many books around, plus the internet was not a big thing yet.  But again, each journey is personal and maybe I needed to start out on my own in the beginning.  It makes me happy there are so many tools available to me now and I am continually fascinated about all the different ways one can take on their journey.