Oh it feels good to know that our regular schedule is returning soon. I have emptied all the garbage bins in the house, and cut down the cardboard, and placed all the recycling in the new giant bin out front. I have piles of waste wood to go to the farm for burning, and new logs piled up for bucking into splitting rounds. I might take a moment one morning to sharpen my old axe. The original, very first one that I bought back in 2006 for my landscaping side hustle. That would give me three options for wood splitting should I desire to chop, rather than spend some time sawing rounds.
I know I have potentially three reports for the winter season to contend with. Two long ones that take a while to complete due to their complexity, and the shear volume of data involved. One new report for a place, or event that I have not done before. That’s always exciting! Building resources for a new client from the ground up. Could be a good time ahead!
I am contracted for a number of hours for the new year, so that’s good to know too. Slightly less uncertainty is a good thing. I do need to put in some leg work to try and add one more mid sized client, or two small ones to even out those whom shut down due to the pandemic, or were bought up by competitors and the work went in-house instead of to me. Knocking on doors, or advertising, or networking sessions are in my not so distant future. I primarily work off of word of mouth from former colleagues, and the ever changing roster of marketers I interact with, but things have slowed considerably since the last US election. May not be a way around that while uncertainty is so high. Best to budget well, and focus on what I do have, instead of what I “want“.
I was going to take the kids climbing this morning, but I slept until ten, and now it’s snowing rather heavily. Not ideal for highway travel, and being gone for several hours. A recipe for unintended consequences I’d rather not face with my kids in tow. Different if I get stuck in heavy snow on a major highway. Bit different of a scenario if both my children have to suffer through it with me too.
The tree is coming down tomorrow, and I will try to take down some of the smaller, and more easily accessed exterior lights too, if I can. Namely the two light up wreaths on the garage facia that are on pegs and nothing more, so I can take those down with no ladder needed. Get them stowed away inside the garage. Maybe try to take up the extension cords from off the ground too? I don’t know, the previous ice Storm might have welded them to the ground for the foreseeable future! Ha. I think we will leave the tree wrap lights on for another few days or weeks. It can get so bleak around here, a little light can go a long way.
It will be late March or early April before I get the lights off the house, or out of the trees, so we might as well enjoy them. I think that next year I might start even higher up in the trees, and get a couple more lights into them too. They do make a statement when done properly I think. Not too showy, but also a really exquisite feature to have tightly wrapped trees full of lights. I aspire that such a high level of illumination showmanship! Not quite Griswold level, but I near third place. Ha!
I took some time this morning to cut down all of the cardboard boxes we’ve gathered since before Christmas. We missed garbage day because… Well let’s just say those left in charge got their timing muddled up, and it affected just us. So now we have additional two weeks worth of garbage to be rid of, plus all the Christmas waste too. Going to be a tight fit when garbage week rolls around again in ten days time. Oof! Nobody buy, or open nothing! We can’t spare the room in our bins!!!!
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