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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Who / what inspires you?  Words inspire me. I used to walk through a library in the nonfiction stacks and read the titles on the backs of the books. If one grabbed my curiosity I would take it home and read it. Every time I listened to my intuition, about a book I had one of life's questions answered from a book I read, which I noticed in this way. I've had a lot of questions answered, about living, over the year's. I think if you read the right books you can find the answers. Taking classes is another way to get questions answered. On a budget, that is empty, the public library is there to help. Today, I use the Overdrive app and do the same thing. I'm still searching the stacks. |
*Heart* 4. Write a list of things that make you happy.  I’m not sure about the word happy. It makes me think of running around with a smile on my face. Not going to happen I guess. However, I enjoy my pets. Each one is an individual in its own way. I enjoy keeping the house work up so we live in a fairly clean atmosphere. I enjoy sunshine which we are actually getting some this morning. I enjoy walking the dogs. I like to read and sometimes I write. I enjoy finding things in history that explain societies in the old and new testament. I enjoy playing music and my guitar. I just like living, in spite of the fact, that living right now is putting a lot of stress on me. These things make me feel accomplished which is kin to happy and enjoy. Something new, I’m learning to appreciate Face book more. This morning I was out in 20 degree weather filling bird feeders. Morning birds were already out and about. Sun came up early so everyone was enjoying the heat. There are deer trails all over yesterdays fresh snow. I wrote a short story for a Christmas prompt but did not put it on my computer and edit it so I never posted it to the contest. Now, it lays in a tablet waiting to be finished. Maybe for next Christmas. Spring is On Its Way!! I hope.  |
 *Heart* 2. A day in the life... give us the low-down on how you spend a typical day. Because I don’t work a regular job outside of my home I fluctuate with my time. For instance yesterday: Up at 5 a.m., put out the dogs, filled the corn stove hopper, fed dogs half of breakfast, went back to bed until 8 a.m., fed cats and birds, read Bible reading plan, made the bed, removed corn stove clinker, started wood pellets in wood furnace because of outside cold, started a load of laundry, ate breakfast, fed dogs other half of breakfast, online to bank to pay bills, read email, WDC, posted to blogs one to 30 day. One to Take UP Your Cross, put dogs back out, changed laundry from washer to dryer, started another load in washer, fed lunch to birds, cats, dogs, cooked lunch for K and I, took dogs out for a short walk. Filled outside bird feeders, filled dish washer, folded clothes from dryer, put 2nd load from dryer to washer, cleaned cat boxes (there are 5 and are cleaned daily), several times during this list I filled pellets into wood furnace, It was 3 p.m. by the time this was done so I took my kindle and read for about two hours. Then I had a light snack for evening meal. At, 7 K filled the hopper with corn on the corn stove, I took out the clinker and we retired to our bedrooms for the night. I played township before I went to sleep. Showering and dressing also take up time. Today no laundry. Just reading, feeding animals, cleaning cat boxes is steady, I take time sometimes to run the red dot for the cats. Talk to the parrots or do special cleaning in their cages daily. It is really windy and snowy today so I’m not looking forward to going out with the dogs. I will probably play fetch down the hall and run them through their training course sometime. Feeding pellets into the wood furnace is not strenuous work but hourly if I forget it will go out. I should do some exercises. I can get exercise plans from silver sneakers and I use them plus there is an exercise bike and I do yoga exercises regularly on impulse. Other things that might come up in a day is taking out the trash, vacuuming a room or two. It is time to do the taxes and I am putting them on computer so I will take a day for that this month. I am almost ready now to do them. One day this month I will do all the bill paying for the month and another day I will do grocery shopping. Blogging on WDC can take two to four hours. In good weather I get more done in a day because I stay up at 5. Now, I go back to bed to doze or read, or play township. K and I are not getting along at all right now. Cabin fever I think. He never stayed home much before he retired. Then he got a part time job until march when every thing shut down. Now, he has trouble finding things to keep him busy. I can always find something to keep me busy. It irritates him I think. You can imagine, I'm high energy--he is low energy. In the winter the house is closed up. It makes a difference. The house is large so some parts are warm other parts not so warm. He was always extremely attached to his family. Now both of his parents are gone and he does not spend much time with his sisters. I think that being separated from his siblings may make him lonely. I’m not a substitute for that attachment. He likes Facebook that helps him stay in touch with friends and family. . Retirement can be a real obstacle to over come if you aren’t ready for it. Who is? Covid does not help. *Heart* 3. What are you excited about in the coming month? I’m hoping for a break in this weather. A day of sunshine, no wind, and melting snow would make me excited. Plus, I’m taking the dog to the vet for a check up. Once that is done I can apply for a lifetime license and he will be set for awhile. |
 Quote:Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.” ― The Old Farmer's Almanac https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/february *Heart* 1. What do you want to do this month? Write your goals for the month, and think about what you need to do to accomplish them. I’m on a new Bible reading plan that will help me reread the entire old and new testament in one year. I hope to keep up with the plan for this month. Also, want to be sure to take new dog to his veterinarian appointment and keep up with his training. Then, just get through every day with as much grace as possible. I’d like to see less snow and cold but that isn’t in my hands at the moment. I have 3 library books out that should be read in the next 14 days and one new book from Amazon that I would like to read this month. Maybe I will take a new class if I can find one that meets my curiosity and budget? I'm knitting a sweater, if I get audio books from the library I can knit and read at the same time. February isn't a month for great new ideas. This year just too cold and blustery for exuberance.  keep warm. |
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