I've allowed myself to have some rather slow days of late, as in most of October, but I do have jobs I really want to attend to before the weather is cold. So, there's nothing for it but to get myself busy and do them. I'm not saying I'll run myself in the ground, but I do mean to get busy and get things done. Are you ready?
1. Clean the back porch. I'll take time to blow off the patio and the front porch, but I want to clean the back porch. There are things we need to put away, things I just plain want to move off the porch entirely and I want to clean the porch floor especially where the pets eat. Once I clean those posts I'll put a rug under their bowls to keep the floors clean. I know it means I'll have to take them up if it rains so it won't stay wet but even as neatly as they eat, there are greasy spots I just don't want to keep cleaning up. I save all my old rugs from the house so no expense will be involved.
2. Switch up the housework. As of this month, I am not going to do zone work any longer. Instead, I'm going to clean one area each day and that will be my focus area. Monday and Friday: Home Blessing Day, Tuesday: Kitchen, Wednesday: Living Room/Dining Room, Thursday: Beds and Baths. That's the way I plan to work until the end of the year when I shall again revisit zone work and determine if I want to continue doing that.
This will not be all of the work I'll do each day, because there's plenty of other work to get done. But those are the rooms I will focus on each day.
3. Purchase the following items: Get 2-4 big planter pots, three orchid cups to sit inside other pots, a flag, potting bark and African violet soil. I also hope to find another bird feeder. I need to buy bird seed whether I get a new feeder or not. I need a couple of new pots for smaller plants, but I'll 'shop the shed' first for those. I'm hoping the bigger pots will be on clearance...We'll see. While I'm at it, I'll look over the flowering kale, pansies, larkspur, etc. if they have any out.
4. Trim the rose bush and rosemary growing at the back porch and the two 'trees' I see growing in the other flower bed.
5. Make out my holiday foods list.
6. Buy potatoes, limes or lime juice.
7. Make bread and spice cake.
8. Start thinking about resolutions and plans for next year.
9. Start planning how I want Christmas to look this year and gather supplies.
10. 10 minutes of sun daily.
11. Plant the Amaryllis I took from a pot this past summer.
12. Move the iris in the pot that is broken and replant them.
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