... tis the weather in September. It has been beautiful here in Indiana. I spent last week in St. Pete Beach, where it was hot! (not complaining) and when I arrived back, fall was fully upon us! Trees are changing rapidly. Before I left, we had had a few days of cooler weather, and definitely chilly nights, but it still looked like summer. the butterfly bushes are still in bloom, but the Ligularia (leopard plant) is till holding on a bit, as is the garden phlox. The wild asters are out, and the sedum is starting to wane a bit. The hummingbird hasn't been here since I've been back, at least not that I have seen. I imagine she has moved on to someplace warmer. However, the butterflies and the bumbles have been out like crazy. Before I left, I also had a swarm of dragonflies! So beautiful!
Old Business:
- Finished Massage is Weird, started The Power of Engagement, which talks more about energy management than time management
- Finished Wool on the plane back home - I was having to pace myself on vacation because I forgot to bring Shift with me. So I started Shift last night!
- Trail Guide - still doing well at 3-4x per week
- Planning for Success - I took it on vacation, but didn't touch it :(
- Magazines - good, probably 5-6x per week
- Running - not good, but did a lot of walking at National Conference in August, and more last week on vacation. Still having some issues
- Craft table is back to being messy - need to put away from National Conference and now vacation too
- Cleaning - it's rolling, and I do feel better after I do it
- Guitar - pretty good, 1-2x per week
- Laundry equipment is moved out - yea! I went up to see 022 in Grand Rapids the weekend before vacation with Dad's truck and we got the equipment down into the basement (shew, that was freaky!), changed out the electrical plug, hooked up the washer, and it worked! Only had slight mishap, which was more comical than annoying, when I remembered we didn't have the clamp on the drain hose and the washer was already running. Let's just say that part of the basement got mopped! They have since gotten themselves a nice folding table and some shelves. It's looking good!
New Business:
- Sanding booth can now officially start back up again
- K is marvelous! We did her 90 day review before I left and I am super pleased!
- AMTA conference in Phoenix was wonderful! Did better with the group this year, but still had a lot of time to myself to just process. Lots of learning, and unfortunately a few issues back home popped up while we were gone
- Donut dude has had a hard time letting go. It has been a bit annoying
- Weeding/mulching has caught up with where we put the fence back up - this is huge! That means I got the huge pile of limbs chipped up, and yesterday even spread out some of them where I had weeded and gotten cardboard down, but ran out of time to mulch before I left. It is looking great! I have another huge pile to chip up, so that will help the backyard look better too. And the leaf pile is mostly gone. Have been thinking through ways of doing that better next time, perhaps with some stick cages
- 019 made a surprise visit before I left on vacay, and it was nice to visit with her
- Went to St. Pete Beach, FL on vacation. Mostly did not do much of anything other than sit, read, and go out to eat!
- Am anxious to get some house projects finished up, and start on new ones
- On vacay, went through Q4 to get some days off scheduled, as well as block of "me" time so that I have time and energy to do stuff here at home
