OK, then, 2011

[multipurposegoddess]

I don't feel like looking back over the past year. Still too much in the middle of trying to assemble a life out of the pieces I have left to reflect on it.

However, I am immensely grateful that I do have the pieces I have and I'm pretty sure that I'll eventually get to a point where I can just, you know, live and not deliberately work my way through every single moment of the day.

To that end, not resolutions, but reminders, should I need them in the future, of how I want to be and should be spending my time:

• Really small-scale agriculture. I'll be ordering my queen and bees this month, and I'll start keeping worms pretty soon, too, now that I think I've figured out where in my yard they can be kept. There is some attendant gardening/landscaping that goes with those.
• Home improvement stuff.  There's so much to be done. Foundation stabilization, fixing the crack in the living room ceiling, sorting out the oddball plumbing, decking the attic and figuring out easier access to it, rearranging the furniture, fixing/replacing the back fence so I can let Walter run around in the backyard (that'd be number one with a bullet)
• Gym. I've got the membership, I need to get back to using it
• Study the Way of the Dumpling. I haven't figured out the details, yet, but I need to be making and eating more dumplings of all kinds this year. Also noodles, but dumplings are a priority.
• Get my books into LibraryThing and read some of the ones that have been marked To Be Read for ages a  la this blog post
• Get back in the habit of feeding the birds. It's so much reward for so little effort, really.
• Figure out my budget and trim everything that can reasonably be trimmed
• Set up the sewing machine so I can, at the very least, hem all my too long pants

That's enough for now.

Comments

[fatoudust]

Good!

You don't have to do that kind of reflection now. Give it some time.

But your plans sound really good. I'm happy you've decided to go for the bees! I will be anxious to hear how it goes. I downloaded a beekeeping book on my Nook because of you and another one of my friends who is doing it.

Birdfeeding really is a great return on investment. I love feeding and watering my birds. I made the feeder, so it was super cheap. I bought a metal trashcan and bulk seed at the feed store, so that's relatively cheap as well. And in return I get happy chirping every morning and all day long.

The Biscuit automatically heads for the sunroom once he sees I've got my breakfast ready. Sometimes I intend to do something else, like mess around on the computer, but when I see that he thinks we're headed to the sunroom I always think it's a good idea. So the two of us sit and eat breakfast and watch the birds and it's just a great enjoyable activity.

Those sound like good, achievable goals.

[multipurposegoddess]

Thanks!

I'm going to get birdseed today, there's a sale at my usual place. Once I ran out and didn't immediately restock it was hard to get started again. Hopefully I'll just be able to keep the bird's pantry supplied from now on.

I'll probably pick up another hummingbird feeder while I'm there, one of mine is cracked and while it still works it might just fall apart at any time. I have maaged to not run out of sugar, so the hummers have been consistently fed

One of my goals in rearranging the furniture is to make it easier to casually watch the birds out of the picture window - it has to be kind of a dedicated activity right now. January/February is when I get the most migrants passing through - my annual flicker sighting should be pretty soon, unless my tree losing all its branches makes it a less desirable stop.

And as a bonus to waking up early, I'll be able to fill the feeders in the front yard before my neighbors are too active. Some days, waving is still more interaction than I want.