When weekends are not enough to solve the stir crazies

I had hoped to post every day, but I felt too tired after a busy weekend. It was mostly positive and helped me get settled back into myself, but I still need to do more. More exercise, more sleep, more decluttering, more creative time, more....something. I did a reasonable amount of all of those things this weekend but I still feel unsatisfied. I wore all my swimming Tshirts, and all my swimming socks, but it didn’t help me miss swimming any less. I mentally went through a riding lesson. I practiced the recorder (something I haven’t done in years). I learned a new naalbinding stitch. I have blog posts bouncing around in my head. I’ll try again tomorrow to get some of them out.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of Fancy just as she and a buddy were starting to go nuts because a goose landed in their field, or something. Silly girls. Apparently they are going stir crazy with the COVID confinement too.


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