Do you think of your week as a Sunday to Saturday much like the lines on a calendar, or do you start on Monday and end on Sunday? Or do you not frame your weeks except by holidays or time off? I would wager a guess that much of it depends on the type of work you do, and the schedule imposed upon you. Rotating shifts, and odd numbered days on and off might throw everything for a loop. I know from experience working nights that keeping track of days gets fuzzy at best if you start at midnight, or work from one evening and over across into another day where you book end four hours each side of 12:00am to complete a full shift. Mucks with my brain a little. Then you track your life via shifts worked and not the 24 hour individual day. Gets screwy.
So… Tuesday March 5th, 2024. How’d we get here so quickly. It was plus twelve yesterday and 98% of all the snow is gone. We’ve had massive dumpings of rain and a thunderstorm already. Spring while nearly two more weeks away feels like it’s been here a while. I fear the late coming of a new snow storm will negatively affect all the plants and trees. This is unseasonable weather we’ve had this winter. Not good. Not good at all. Just think of all the bugs and snakes that will migrate here if our winters get too mild. Horrible stinging things, and wretched venomous snakes. Yuck. No thank you.
What was I talking about? Oh yeah – framing of your week. Sundays have a different vibe than Wednesdays, Thursdays get mistaken for Fridays a fair bit, Friday and Saturday tend to be the best days for doing fun stuff, and casting off the yoke of work to go party or see friends makes for a memorable feel to a day. I do a lot of the same things each week, so there is Domestic Duties Mon/Tues, Hump Day Wednesday, Thursday is usually busy, and Friday leads into the weekend and seeing friends outside of the house. The kids do lots of programming Monday through Thursday, so we keep the weekend clear. I say that, but soon rock climbing will start on Sundays for eight weeks, and then we have dance recitals, and kids getting wings to move up in Girl Guides, and summer & swimming and, and, and… easy to get carried away into looking through the calendar instead of living the days as they come. Funerals have a good way of refocusing my attention to here, and now. Rather than gazing ahead across the calendar to more exciting times.
March break is next week after all, so the second half of the school year really picks up speed. I think getting outside and having more sun and warmth helps to move the needles on the clock a bit faster. Certainly nicer being outdoors when it doesn’t hurt your face or lungs. More brightness and more day light hours, with more to do outside. Swimming will pick up again come middle of May. I always look forward to swim season.
Given this odd weather I wonder if there will be any sap left for next week or if it has all run while we weren’t looking! I know we have wood to split for the boilers too. Lots to do in Hope’s of the sap running.
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