Unrealistic Expectations #2

I really enjoyed being accountable to you, dear reader, regarding my chore list from yesterday.  So, if you don't mind, I think I'll use the same tactic today!

I'm already ahead of the game with blog posting, so I won't even have to list that.  (Sometime soon, I want to be able to take some time to catch up on my blog reading, though:  I am soooooo behind on that!  But, that's such a treat that I don't feel I can include it in my To Dos.)

So, for today and in no particular order:

• Water houseplants.
• Situate broody mama hen in brooder (I'll take pictures and write about this later).     DONE!
• 1 Hour Ironing if the sun stays out (that's the biggest sucker-of-electricity).   I'm actually taking this off the list because right now, at 3:20 PM, the batteries are only up to 80% full, and so any more sun that the panels absorb today needs to go to the electrical system instead of ironing!
• 1 Hour Dishes & Kitchen Clean Up     DONE!
• 1 Hour General House Clean Up
• 1 Hour Deskwork   DONE!  (Plus some, 'cause, geez, those 60 minutes went quickly!)
• 1 Hour Tax / Divorce Paperwork 
• 2 Billable (Business) Hours

There!  Now THAT seems more realistic than yesterday's list doesn't it?  I'll keep you posted.


(An aside:  as I write, I can hear a red-winged blackbird trilling outside.  Their call is my most favorite summertime sound on a hot day.  I especially enjoyed hearing them when Tom and I would go canoeing on the river.  He bought me a little solo wooden canoe a couple of years ago, and I have great - unrealistic? - hopes of making it "sea-worthy" and using it this summer!  We've never put it in the water, though, so I'm not sure just HOW MUCH work it will need!)


And now . . . ON WITH THE DAY!