We always seem to be overloading ourselves with jobs to be done, always running to catch up. So we decided to calm things down little, and arrange things so each weekend or evening we have the chores to do, then just a couple of objectives, then after that do whatever we like. One of the problems is we always seem to end up outside if the weather makes it possible, and the indoor things get neglected – which is mostly how we like to arrange things, but when those indoor things then spill into the evenings, and we find ourselves making sausages at midnight.. well perhaps we have got the balance wrong!
The net result of the new plan seems to be we achieved lots this weekend. The chores were dealt with quickly, and the few planned items done and dusted on Saturday, which left us to do what we wanted. The thing is.. all that we are doing here is what we want to do.. so it’s no hardship, and it all feels so much easier without a pressing list to get through.
This weekend we: finished the new improved (bigger) cockerel house and moved it in. Moved the hen and her two smaller chicks into the growers coup. Made pate, kiwi chutney, and sweet curried green tomato chutney. We washed some fleece. We dragged out and processed more branches (shamefully from last year’s hedging efforts, now grown over with grass etc). We cut and stacked lots of logs. We picked courgettes and tomatoes and then blanched and froze and roasted the tomatoes and blended into sauce. We made a little progress with the broken shower tiles and sliced lots of apples for the freezer.
We are very much the same, make unrealistic list of jobs to be done and then disappointed we don’t achieve many of them. We haven’t touched the inside of the house yet this year and many an evening my husband doesn’t start the paper work until 11 or later often not finishing before 2 in the morning.
You sound as if though you got through plenty this weekend .
It’s too easy to forget to standstill and enjoy.