Oh! Oh my… Well – shit.

The winds have begun, the rain is clinging to my already bent trees, and the snow storm is gathering overhead. The hour is early, and much of the day still stretches out before us. Tantrums, fights, and screaming matches abound. I am sad to report that I had in fact left some personal tasks to be completed today that will now need to be pushed into the new year once the kids are back in school. Now is the time to focus on the task at hand. Surviving the Christmas holidays with hyper, over excited children at home. There is not enough snow, as of yet, to suit them up, and tire them out with an hour of shoveling in the icy cold wind. Time outs, and tears stand at the ready. Food is plentiful, and so is drink (alcoholic and otherwise). Worse comes to worst, and  late this evening I can go up in a puff of aromatic blue smoke from the local Tokyo Smoke shop. I’m a good person, I’m a good person. I love my kids, I love my kids.

So much for a Christmas movie marathon today. The tv is now occupied by the tiny terrorists in jammies, and I no longer have a second Bluray/DVD player in the house. It went to the cottage for the summer to watch Netflix on the lake. I think my Xbox 360 can play DVDs in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Better than nothing at all at this point.

I believe I got all of my 2022 invoices out before today, thankfully. So now I can sit back until January 9th, and wait to be paid. I have two large scale projects coming in the winter, so for the foreseeable future I won’t have any breaks longer than 2 to 3 weeks this winter. Makes me wish I could heat my shop at all, so that I could start on a new wood working project sooner, rather than later. But numb hands from icy hand tools is not how I roll. Let us hope that 2023 is as productive, if not 5%-10% more so than 2022! That would be pretty great for me. More wood working, more sculpting, more music and the same or slightly more paid work.

To good health, and personal satisfaction in what you spend your time doing! I have no resolutions. I will keep on writing, and working in my exercise regimen to my weekly life. And that just about covers it. I’d like to get out on my bike, long board skate board, roller blades, and possibly cross country skiis if I can in 2023. That and swim in the sunshine some more. That’s always a great day maker. I love a good private swim in the sunshine with a cold beverage waiting in the wings.

Ciao Bella