It's been, what, over three weeks since I've written an article for this blog? That's way too long, especially since I intended to write about twice a week when I started this thing. I don't really have an excuse. The real reason that I haven't written for so long is that I just let myself get overwhelmed with all that is going on in my life these days. I've had so many things on my plate that the blog thing just fell off the edge.
I know this is just whining, but what happened was that I got this thing going on with my teeth, or maybe it was my sinuses (it's not fixed yet and I still don't know what it is), that kind of threw me for a loop. I was in constant pain and I still can't drink or eat anything cold. Not to mention that if I go outside and there is the slightest breeze blowing it makes the side of my face ache like hell. So that has been going on.
While the teeth/sinus/face thing was at its worst I couldn't do much master gardener stuff because most of that is done outside and I couldn't go out in the wind without bundling my face up like I had elephant man disease or something. I did do some web site and Facebook work for the master gardeners but I couldn't really get my hands dirty, which is what I like to do. On top of that there was a big political upheaval in the local master gardener organization and I got stuck taking up the slack in the demonstration gardens when the two people who had been in charge of them left suddenly.
The grandkids had some stuff going on during this timeframe too, so of course my wife and I couldn't miss out on that. Then my old gal had some health appointments, some of which I tagged along to. After that the weather turned cold and then hot again and then so cold that it froze the water in the birdbath. So I had to put up my temporary greenhouse and put all the tender potted plants in that and cover the tender plants in the ground. Oh, and some damn varmint ruined half of the peppers on the only bell pepper plant that had survived the drought, spider mites and what have you this summer. So I had to pick all the peppers before they were ripe, which annoyed me no end. Then I had to prepare the garden and put in the winter crops, while doing the John Merrick impersonation, of course.
So, yeah, I've had a lot of balls in the air over the last month or so and I just let things get out of control. Then this afternoon while my wife and I were walking in the park I saw this string of ducks and I realized that I just needed to get my own ducks all in a row. Usually I do that naturally without even thinking about it. When I worked I was the go-to guy that could multiplex like nobody else and handle any crisis that came up. For some reason I almost forgot how to do that now that I'm retired. Maybe I'm just out of practice. In any case I've resolved to not let that happen again. I'm going to prioritize the stuff on my plate and make sure that I start writing regularly again; maybe not twice a week, but definitely weekly. So watch this space. There is more to come.
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