THINGS WE DO TO OURSELVES

Lately it seems to me that times passes me by at lightning speed. It 's no sooner Monday that it's Friday again and the weeks and months vanishes before my eyes and the wrinkles grows deeper around my eyes, my knees cracks as I climb the stairs and it seems like only yesterday, it was summer. I'm always turning the calendar pages and just got a new 2011 calendar a few days ago.

It was never like that when I was younger and I used to accomplish so much in a day and had something to show for my efforts.  WHAT HAS GONE WRONG???

I get up early, eat and run to the barn to work and get back home and run to check the phone to see who left a message, to  the computer to see who has left a message for me on my blog or on Rug Hooking Daily, whose birthday is it today, who posted a new photo of their rug,  or my Gmail account or my other email account and I go to bed later now too. That's enough to wear me out.

I've been thinking about it a lot lately and when Doris, my blogging friend suggested that blogging was a TIME THEIF, it made me realize that she was perfectly right. My rug is at a stand still, my quilt is crying from loneliness and abandon, I'm feeling unproductive and so I'm taking stock of how I spend my leisure time.

I love, love blogging. It's a creative side of me that I had no idea I had until I took the plunge when a wise Rug Hooking Daily friend plainly said, JUST DO IT.

Well, I JUST DID IT, not knowing what I would talk about  or even how to start a blog or what it would be called.  My pride got in the way and I  didn't asked for help but started to investigate and I can't even remember where I started but felt the thrill of discovering my way around Blogging. I thought that maybe I'd blog once  week, but every evening when I sat at the computer key board, it was like my fingers were magic although I'm a two finger typist. lol...
Words flowed from my fingers effortlessly without even having to think what I was going to talk about. I had to learn how to upload photos etc.

My blog was started on August the 2nd, 2010 and now I have 33 Followers and  others who follows privately around the glob as my stats suggests.

I feel guilty if I don't check everyones of my followers blogs and leave comments and the same goes for Rug Hooking Daily.

Why am I so caring about people I never met and probably never will meet. Well, that how I am...
With my schedule, it's even difficult to find time to plan meals and do all that needs to be done. Where do I draw  the line and make time for myself and my other hobbies??? That's the difficult part. I love it all and want it all, greedy ole me.

What is the solution? Has anyone got an answer for me? HELP!   JB

I NEED ZZZZZ

I'm pretty tired as I got home late last night after attending a banquet with my husband , my son and his girlfriend at the Delta Hotel  in Fredericton for the 37th Annual Meeting of Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick.

Our farm won two awards. The first award was for the Most Improved Milk Quality and the second award was The Excellent Milk Quality. The two awards were $500.00 each. There was four hospitality rooms before the banquet hosted by the banks and Farm Credit Canada and lots and lots of free drinks but I limited myself to one glass of white wine. The buffet was fantastic. I overate but so did everyone else.

It was about 10:30p.m. when I got home and checked my blog and commented on everybody else's. It was past midnight when I got under the blankets and was up at 6:30 a.m. this morning. I've been doing too many late nights lately.

Today I worked my butts off, (well there isn't much left there to work off) lol. I cleaned some pens and today I scrubbed and disinfected them and did my other chores too. It's been raining all day here and the snow is going down fast. Can't say that I'm sorry.

I aged my overflow bottle of Gewurztr for a full two days and I must say, it went down smooth as silk. I love my Gewurtzr. I only had a glass at supper time though.

I had some photos that I took of my holiday plants and couldn't upload them the other day because of my Picasa fiasco but here they are now.

Started from a broken segment from my large Christmas Cactus. I got the parent plant started from a piece of my daughter 's plant. 

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I got this red Poinsettia for Christmas last year from our employee and I meant to repot it along with the other but never got around to it. It's starting to change color.

I got this pink one from our church last Christmas too after the Holidays and it's doing it's thing too.

Another one from the church that someone gave me last year. This one is a cream color and is starting to change color too.

                                                         A fushia color Christmas Cactus.

                                        A scarlet  color Christmas Cactus.

                      All my Christmas Cactus were started with a small segment.

I finally attached some pads under my frame to protect my floor. No more old towels under to prevent scratches on the floor. What took me so long???

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.  JB