Busy Day

 January 9th

Intention for the day: to be joyfully productive.

Here are some happy things from today:

  • Before 9:30 AM I had already brought Gideon to school, went to the old house, saw a red fox on the way, started some laundry for sewing, and found some things to bring back to the new house.
  • The trees were beautiful this morning with a layer of ice coating them.




  • At just about 10 AM I was back at the new house and planning time to do things with Bel.  We started by going back to the old house and they took care of the chickens, I cycled laundry and did some shoveling.
  • After those chores were done we did some driving around talking and played a game called Ingress.  
  • At home Bel and I started tackling the kitchen again.  The former owners left a bunch of stuff behind and soon we will know what we do and don't want.  I look forward to that.  Let me be more specific, I look forward to getting rid of a bunch of things we shouldn't need.
  • Eventually I went to craft night.  A friend and I filed a pile of pewter tokens in preparation for the Market Day at Birka event at the end of the month.  I can't share a picture of the entire token before the event.  I will share this one picture I took to show how easy I think it will be to string them.  🙂


End of day intention wrap up:  There was much productivity.  There was also joy.  There were also times that I had to take some deep breaths to reset myself.  After that, I could suggest to anyone helping that we try to focus on solutions, not what was wrong.  

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Continued listening to:  Ghost Flower, by William F Merck II.

Thank you for being here and being part of my daily happy things. Stay safe!


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