It’s been a while since I have posted. (How many blogs, I wonder, have begun with this sentence!) I lost focus for a while. The lose weight goal has gone by the side, checking my list has been forgotten, the barn quilts are still in the living room waiting to be sealed. But life has been happening. My son graduated from high school, with the accompanying celebrations and beach trip. A dear friend lost her mother. My husband has found a temporary position and is still looking for something permanent. Our Vacation Bible School was a success. Lots of life has happened. And I am ready to focus again on these 101 goals. On the hunger scale.
So, the loosing weight thing. That hunger scale thing is amazing. Even unwilling to actually pay attention, the idea floated in my mind, and I ate less than I had previously. The result being that I maintained for about a month. I’m not saying anything about the last three weeks! These weeks that I have actively said, “Yes, I know I’m not hungry, but I WANT that.” Ugh!
The garden is going well. Apparently the grasshoppers do not like peas, tomatoes, cilantro, and thyme. So we are harvesting peas, tomatoes, clilantro, and – well, you get it! We get much delight eating a supper of “This came from our garden.” I planted the rest of a packet of spinach with the strawberries with amazing results. We had several spinach salad meals. From such a small space. And I found the reason for the many Spinach-Strawberry Salad recipes. They ripen together. And it’s yummy. Even two teen boys thought so.
This last weekend a friend’s mom died unexpectedly, as did a thirty-seven year old co-worker of my husband’s. Much grieving. Also, much evaluation of our own lives. What really IS important? We keep working for stuff. See my 101 goals list. I may be revamping this list. Maybe not. What is the balance of stuff and what matters? Sometimes stuff helps make the things that matter happen. Big ideas. Making our wills and talking to our parents has moved way up the priority list.
Back to easier decisions and thoughts! We painted our bedroom. #23 finished. We did my son’s graduation table. #25 finished. I made three bird houses. The shelf kind for Phoebes, Robins, and Barn Swallows. I am hanging them at the height for Phoebes. #32 half finished. Our honey is selling through the plan of Word-Of-Mouth. Much easier than working out a plan! Thanks to our son who brought some to school and interested his friend’s parents! #53 being worked out. #86 – planting a million sunflowers. Not sure how to count this. I did plant lots and lots of sunflower seeds, but the chickens came happily behind me. So I have many sunflowers. But not lots. And certainly not millions. (Even with my proclivity to exaggerate!)
Unfinished: The summer college scholarship class didn’t happen this year. Maybe next year, or the year after. The interested kids came to last year’s class. Also unfinished will be the Writing – Literature class for summer 2013. A friend’s son had requested this. He got busy and the other kids were of the Summer-Is-Not-The-Time-to-do-School work opinion. (Me too.) I do have the opportunity to teach/lead a class for The Lost Tools of Writing by the Circe Institute for our local debate club. I am looking forward to this. It is an amazing curriculum.
So, back to a 101 goal focus. I am glad. Let me know how you are doing on your 101 goals!