October and time of rapid change...

Today is Monday. Monday is usually my day off to mentally rest and give myself some time to indulge in random thought. I always find the results so interesting and food for the rest of the week.

But...it's holidays and with children around mental time out is not an option. Also I have two major assignments I am finishing. The last two assignments of my papers for this year. The last assignments are always the hardest. The temptation to leap into my next project, which is the garden with spring very much in evidence, I wang to get my hands dirty. Not such luck, also it's raining so just looking out the window at the grass and rapid green growth requires thoughtful restraint at present.

I've got so many projects on the go, the picture book, these two papers and the prospect of next year as an internal student for the teacher's training. That's not even looking at the home front. The house is is such a need of a spring clean, it's a tad scary. Also the stove is now down to one good element. The other three heat from zero to ultra high in a split second. Sigh.

This is the maintance side of things that need to be taken care of. I am frustrated by my partly finished courtyard too, growing an indecent amount of weeds and rapidly disappearing as a good intention. Still as I think about these things I know as my papers are finished and the weather clears up, I will be out there finding the bricks to lay and the paint to finish the walls. I have been considering the waterfall I want in there all winter and have just about formuated a plan.

My youngest son has just bought his first car and I now feel like I can go out again any time I like in my car, especially on friday nights because he used to disappear with it to his social events.

Oh well time to get back to the assignments and get the little suckers finished, so I can get my hands good and dirty.

One last thing. I had a coffee, a very delicious coffee with a very old friend on sunday, what a pleasure to catch up after all these years. It's been 30 years, surprising how much I found we hadn't changed as our fundamental selves. I think the only change is experience and lives lived.

I have an inkling I am on the verge of my next big adventure.....I wonder what it will be?!

Maybe it will be my next blogging journey!

Toodles for now.