HAPPY IN PRAIRIE PARADISE

Sitting here with my feet propped up on the recliner with bags of frozen peas on the backs of my feet.  I walked a great deal yesterday and when doing so I pay for it with achy feet to the point it is extremely difficult to walk.  Twice a day, I should ice the backs of my feet.  Deliberately I rotate them as I sit when not icing them.

Calling this a foot treatment costing only a few dollars for the frozen peas.  Over a year and a half ago my left knee was causing me extreme pain so I did the frozen green pea treatment and it took care of the pain.  I was down and out for three months.  I treated the knee a couple times a day.  This helped and I am better in this department.  That's been almost two years ago in January 2019.  Hallelujah.  

My feet has been a whole different issue for 14 months.  I get better than they flair up again.  I wish I had been doing the frozen peas much, much sooner.  Slow to catch on.  Between being hypothyroidism, arthritis and Plantar Fasciitis.

Thinking on yesterday.  I had a fantastic afternoon and evening.  Beautiful FALL weather.  Deliberately took a drive in the FLINT HILLS and admired the colorful landscape.  I have to get outside and soak in the sun rays and breathe in the AUTUMN smells.

It was so lovely, I wanted to bask in it.

Watched a Cross Country Meet in which a Grand ran.  She did well.  She came in second place.

Thrilling to see her run.  

The walk back to our parked car played heck with my feet.  I pray I get better.

Afterwards, we shopped!  I was on a hunt to find clear acrylic storage bins for the fridge to help make my fridge completely organized 

and gorgeous on the inside.  haha.

DOLLAR GENERAL did not have them.  WHAT?  I was stunned.  Off to FAMILY DOLLAR in a different community.  They had some!  4 small clear refrigerator bins and 4 large ones.  After comparing the storage bins on the internet to what I paid, I felt pretty good about it.  $4 for the small skinny ones and $5 for the large.  Internet prices were in the neighborhood of $12 and up per container.

After being VICTORIOUS on finding more clear refrigerator bins, I was satisfied.  It was a relief to locate some and leave the store with these items.  HaPPy HomEMaker.  Off to Starbucks to celebrate with a cold Green TEA.  Then Sams to shop.  Wish I could have the three meshed deers they have in their Christmas display.  We'd have to have a huge storage area for the deer to summer in.  Gosh they are pretty.  $$$ I can admire them for free.  $$$

I think about how to decorate throughout the year. 

I can see it in my head.  Not sure I can create in real, but will give it a go.  If I start now, by December 1st it just might be a go.  The Nativity Scene comes out first then wreaths on the front doors.  Decorate around the front doors then move inside with a Tree and Nic-nacs.  Nut Crackers in the Dining room.  Santas in the Living room.  Garland on the handrails.  Enough.  Christmas Cards done and in the mail.  Cooking/Baking.  Fudge, chocolate covered pretzels, peppermint patties, cookies.

BUT FIRST comes Halloween and Thanksgiving!

No candy hand outs this year.  Fixing goodies for Grands.

Not sure how we will celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Shall pray and see how this goes.

Come what may.

We drove HOME after shopping SAMS.

Had a quiet night without a movie.

Put some groceries away and rested.

Missed the TOWN HALL MEETINGS.

Welp, tis FRIDAY.

THIS WEEK-END I will finish sorting the cook books.  Then clearing out the junque underneath the church pew that held my cook books.  Organizing the few shelves I do have in a book case that is being used for a Pantry.  

I have some head scratching to do to figure out how to pull this all together.

The built in Kitchen cabinets that I do have are too high for convenient food storage.  They are great for dishes, bakeware and vitamins, but the top two shelves in the cabinets are more for storing things seldom used like antique dishes, vases, extra dishes.

THIS KITCHEN PROJECT is ongoing and morphing along.  This month is ORGANIZE the FRIDGE and PANTRY.  Take inventory of canned goods and such to see if our supply will get us through the WINTER.  This could be a very different WINTER with the outcome of the election.  The Coronavirus will have been around for a year.

What a year it has been.  Changes in cleaning habits, social distancing, doing more outdoors instead of inside.  The economy has been hit hard.  Many people have taken ill and have died.  Prayers.

Please stay safe and respect one another.

HOME LIFE is for me,

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God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

P S A L M  46:1