Peopled Out
The past couple of weeks have been busy and fun, but I need some downtime. Alone. After church today, I plan to spend a few hours in my sewing room, either playing with the 880 or doing some more organizing. I started taking apart the spare bedroom and there is plenty to do in that room.
[I discovered one feature of the 880 that I truly love. It shows the time of day on the display. No more pulling out my phone or craning my neck to look at the clock next to the bed. What a simple little feature and yet how useful.]
Canning classes went well. While I was teaching the morning session, the husband picked a couple of gallons of raspberries. Those went into the freezer. I really need to get out and weed this week. Another system is supposed to come through on Tuesday bringing rain. (Yay!) The tomatoes plants have set fruit and look great. We have watermelons:
Now that the lavender buds have opened, the lavender hedge is a mass of buzzing pollinators:
Keeping the wildlife happy is my job.
*********
I’m still working my way through the book Uptime. There is much to think about and digest. I really like the concept of “future you.” The goal is to think about those tasks that would make life easier for future you if you did them now—so you do them. This does require a fair bit of discipline (sorely lacking in society these days, unfortunately). Making it into a game helps.
More and more, I am beginning to think that impulse control/delayed gratification is one of the greatest gifts you can give children. Otherwise, they grow up with unreasonable expectations about how life works. (Get off my lawn.) We told our girls that if they buckled down in high school and earned a full International Baccalaureate diploma, they would see the benefits when they went to college. Both girls received hefty merit scholarships and both went in as sophomores, which gave them more freedom in choosing what classes to take. And each of them has carried that discipline over into their working lives.
Here endeth today’s sermon. 😉