Summer is dashing by
It’s August already. I’m wondering where the time went. Winters seem to drag but spring and summer dash past. I look at the calendar and realize that I haven’t accomplished half of what I wanted to by this time.
I didn’t paint the kitchen. I didn’t buy the shelves for the back porch and put them up. The pups still need vet appointments and shots—note to self: must do that this week. I didn’t put in the patio I so desperately wanted to do. G and I didn’t get much walking in either. I’ve missed too many critiquing sessions due to things on my end or the other people’s.
However, it is worth it to put some things on the back burner and do other stuff that brings a smile. I’ve played in the dirt and watched things grow. I had the shed painted. I’ve spent time with DH and that’s a precious commodity. I’ve played with the dogs—another joy for me. I’ve taken my dear friend G to lunch and she’s taken me. Which means it’s my turn to take her out again.
I’ve made new friends. I enjoyed another writers’ conference. DH and I have celebrated another anniversary. Yep, it’s worth it.
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Doggonedmysteries 
It amazes me how fast the time goes by. I, too, put things on the back burner this year but only because I didn’t feel well enough to participate. Maybe next spring and summer my back will be in better condition to enjoy life again. It’s hard to turn down trips and such because you can’t walk. And the garden is a disaster this year – oh we put in a few things, but I can’t do the bending and twisting that weeding and keeping up a garden requires. Again, maybe next year. I still count my blessings but hate to see it being August so soon. At least the paint job on the house and fence were finally finished! Honestly, that job took entirely too long to accomplish and now the deck refinish has a problem – but we’ll figure that one out. And there’s always another project looming. I think I’ll get the camera out this week & go for a drive w/Devoted Spouse and forget about “projects” for a little while. 🙂
That sounds like a plan to me! 😀
You have accomplished more than you set out to do. It might not be -what- you set out to accomplish, but it surpasses that silly to-do list by leaps and bounds. Painting is much better in spring or fall when the humidity is down. Who wants to hang and organize shelves in the heat of summer? What good would the patio have done if you spent all your time lounging on it instead of doing all those other things that brought you such joy? Ok, yeah… I’m going to get back to (not) doing some of the things on my to-do list, now.
Not doing things on the to do list seems to work the best… 😉
Cool – I love looking at the good stuff. I’ve had a lot of good stuff this summer too. There’s always the other stuff – it may change it’s clothes but it doesn’t go away.
Told an eye doc once that I had just taken on a job with 15 years of backlog that given the current load I’d never get to. He told me that the most important thing was to make sure when I left that the next person also walked into a 15 year backlog. That obviously it was a tradition of that office.
I felt a whole lot better, only I’m pretty sure by the time I left that it was a 16 year backlog.
Now that’s a tradition I could get into. 🙂