All in a day’s work

I should say, all in a morning’s work but that doesn’t sound right. I don’t know where I get it from or when it started but I really enjoy being a morning person. I love to wake up before the birds start to sing (and the birds start really early over here!) and the sunrise so that I can enjoy hearing the birds sing and viewing the sunrise. Weird- I know. One of the things that motivates me to get up early (especially on my weekends) to start my day, is the amount of things I can accomplish in the morning hours.

Here’s my Saturday morning- Started the morning off with a swim at 6am then home for a quick shower and bite to eat. Once it reached a civilised hour (8am) I headed outside to the back yard to chop firewood. Let me back up and note that we had a big tree cut down a few months ago and opted out of having the guy chop it up for us for an extra $200. Instead we’ve been doing it ourselves at a very slow pace. Since Winter is quickly approaching, I decide that today was the day that we would finish the job. I went out to get a head start and while innocently minding my own business, I was stung by a bee. Not just stung but violated. The damn thing flew into my shirt and stung me on my shoulder. What the hell???? That was so uncalled for. After that, Holming came out to protect me from other violations and to help me finish off the job. It turns out that there is a beehive that came down with the tree so we didn’t get to finish the job today because we need to find a way to clear the bees away....quickly!

Still outside, we harvested the rest of my garden treasures and turned over the garden patch so that it can rejuvenate over the Winter.

I forgot to mention that before heading outside to chop firewood, I prepared dough for a loaf of bread so it could rise while I was outside. Once in from the garden, I popped the bread in the oven and, voila!, we have a beautiful fresh loaf of bread for lunch.

All this was done by midday. Now that I’ve posted a long overdue blog, it’s still early, what other trouble can I get myself into today?