May 1 Check-In

 Once again, this past month went by way too fast. Except for every morning, when I’d look outside and see snow falling again, and I’d be like – ARGH! Is it ever going to be Spring?!

But here we are, the first of May. There is only one patch of snow left at the end of our driveway. And though it hasn’t snowed in several days, it has been raining. So much yard work to do! But at least the forecast for the next few weeks is more tolerable.

Here’s what I had hoped to do in April:

1.     Write four chapters in “Rewrite the Now”. Ok, I didn’t write that much, but at least I finished a chapter I had left hanging last time I worked on it two years ago.

2.     Read a spy novel. Done.

3.     Clean the closet in my office. Nope.

4.     Clean the spare room in the basement. Nope.

5.     Paint the ceiling and walls in the hallway. YES! YEAH!

6.     Bring the camper out of storage and spring-clean it. We brought the camper home this morning, but thanks to more rain this afternoon, I haven’t done much with it except bring the dishes and some of the bedding in the house to wash.

7.     Clean up and organize the pictures on my computer. I looked at them and moved a few at least.  

8.     Start and finish a sewing project. Yeah, I started one and got about halfway done this afternoon when my iron died on me. How does that happen? Argh.

May is looking pretty busy. I have no idea how I’m going to get much done, but at least I’m in a rhythm with my extra day off during the week and getting stuff done then. We’ll see.

1. Write two chapters in “RTN”. (I gotta start being realistic.)

2. Clean as many closets in the house as I can, in anticipation of:

3. Have a rummage sale. Still not sure we can pull that off, but we keep talking about it.  

4. Spring clean the camper and go camping one weekend! Cannot wait!

5. Clean up and organize the pictures on my computer.

6. Finish my sewing project.  

Not much writing on that list. May 26 is my last day of work, so hopefully after that I will get serious again. Oh, I was at a conference this weekend and was suddenly inspired to write a story. Pulled out a notebook and started writing. The speaker at that moment was an eye doctor, so I wrote a line about “hard to focus on the talk about cataracts.” Think any readers will pick up on that?

God bless, Chris 

Snowing in my backyard on April 15

And again on April 20

But finally able to bring home the camper on May 1!