Catching Up

Being three months behind in my art and life in general isn't what I'd planned for this year (see initial post). I'm finally catching up with a few of the art projects. The garden was another matter. There were plants that didn't get moved, edges that didn't get edged and the weeds that welcome me in the spring will be dense due to their healthy state in September.

The season quickly proceeded on ahead of me, so for now, it doesn't matter except in my guilty conscience. Winter has arrived and looking out the window into the indigo light on 'the breast of the new fallen snow' I know those mythical hoofs will be prancing and pawing before long.

Just when I realized that it's best to start enjoying the nice weather early — say the beginning of April — I move to a climate where the growing season lasts only from mid June until early August! 65 frost free days. Fall is over within weeks. As a new arrival to this northern climate, I remember asking our paperboy, “Are you getting excited about Halloween?” To which he replied in a dejected tone, “Yeah, I guess.......but it always snows.”

Oh, well, I have a warm house, a computer, artwork to make......with some hot chocolate and my down slippers I can become a happy hermit for the next 6 months. I now have a SAD light to make up for those 3:30 pm sunsets.
SAD info(pdf)

About every third day through this catching up period, I admonished myself, “I really should post something on my blog!”
Thank you to those of you who have been asking:

1.) Are you OK, (not sick or anything)? Yup, (nope)
2.) Just busy, I hope? Yup
3.) You haven't stopped blogging have you? Nope
4.) Are you ever coming back?? Yup

Oh, the guilt, the guilt.* But it's nice to know when you're missed and I wouldn't trade those comments for all the hit counters in the world. Thank you, dear friends!!

Coincidentally as I was cruisin' around (and not blogging) I came across two blogs in the space of an afternoon that touched on that exact subject. The guilt part.

The first was Tiffini Elektra X's post about blogging without obligation.
I agree with her thought that we should “Just take a step back and enjoy life, not everything you do has to be bloggable”.

But I'm still keeping my pen and yellow pocket-sized tablet in my jeans just in case something comes to mind.

The second entry was Amy Gahran’s post from several years back titled
Three Secrets of No-Pressure Blogging when she explained where she'd been to “those who were worried about her absence over the last few days”.
Only days?? Amy! That's nothing.

*Truth be told, there wasn't THAT much guilt, at least ¾ of it was knowing I was missing all the fun with everyone. Next time I'm buying the MacBook, then I can sit in the garden and blog next to the edger and my favourite weed-getter tool. Talk about a productive life!!

Excuse me now, while I check through the little yellow tablet, as I've jotted down a million ideas and have a lot of catching up to do......

(pssst......if you don't find me here, you'll likely find me over at flickr.)