Long Time No Write

Beware all of you crazy people out there who want to set yourself a goal of doing something big. It is hard. Or rather, it is hard if you think you want to have your normal routines at the same time.

Life and chickens have a way of getting in your way. These little guys are growing quickly, and I have a sneaking suspicion that most of them are male. And that breaks my heart because they are two of my favorites. The one pictured above seems to like us a lot (maybe not after tonight!) and is always curious when we approach them. By the way, they are now being housed in the garage as they were getting too big for the Rubbermaid totes and yet our weather is still way too cold for them to survive outdoor temperatures.

Anyway, when I set myself this task of doing 50 things from a variety of lists, I thought, "I can do this. It would be about 1 a week." But real life has a way of getting in the way of the best of plans. Maybe you're tired, or busy or just have an overall case of the Ida wannas.

Whatever it is, I am rapidly approaching the halfway mark and I am nowhere near halfway on mostly all of my lists. Hmm.

On the plus side, I have no doubt at all that I will indeed read fifty books by my fiftieth birthday. And that, at least, is an achievment I can be proud of. The rest-we'll have to see. I still have six months. Wish me luck!