Time Management... Not!

Hubby and I are not the best at time management. Here, it is cold... real cold. I look out my window in our office where I'm sitting, and there's nary a leaf to be seen. They all turned yellow and then orange last week and overnight they fell to the ground and just like that it was winter. Hubby and I were up quite late the other night with guests for dinner and when our guests left a 3 a.m. it was -14 degrees C. I think that is an anomaly and that we will get warmer temperatures again, but then in the North, you never know. As a result of this quick decent into winter, Hubby and I have been caught with our pants around our knees. (Not literally!) We should have had everything ready for winter but somehow here we are and nothing is ready for the inevitable cold and snow. The tent trailer is still standing in the yard. It's up and not cleaned out. The trampoline has not been put away, some of the house supplies are still outside, and we are far from ready for snow. Yeesh! How did that happen?

Today, Hubby is butchering the chickens. We have had it with the bu--ers since they are the worse chickens we have ever had! They lay their eggs and then promptly eat them. Once a chickens starts doing that it's hats off for them, or I mean, heads off for them. We've tried catching the bu--ers in the midst of their egg eating habit, but they are just too quick. Out comes an egg and they're on it like a bunch of starving Ethiopians at a Thanksgiving buffet. So with the price of chicken feed as high as it is, it is just not worth it to keep them.... besides, they always looked like they were trying to place bombs under the house anyway!!!

Everything has a light dusting of snow and so begins the dark days of winter. I dread it. I went outside a little while ago and just about froze my buns off, but the great thing is that I found a lovely picture. So I went back in again and grabbed the camera in an effort to capture the image in digital form.

Later I was cleaning up some things that had been in the shed for the last few months because I didn't want to leave them out there over the winter months and in the box was a stuffed chicken that someone had felted for me. I think it was supposed to be a pin cushion but I never used it as such. I thought, "I bet Tootsie would like to play with this, now that he won't have chickens to herd anymore". And sure enough he loves it and takes it everywhere with him.

Saturday was a good day for renovation doings too. Hubby got my closet done to the point where I can hang up clothes and so I have been putting clothes away all yesterday and today with a little time out for Turkey with the parents and some time on the tri-loom yesterday. I started a small shawl last week as an experiment and so far it is looking good.

Meanwhile the things that we need to do linger and languor. I sure hope this weather is an anomaly because I'm really starting to wonder if it is. One thing is for sure, I'm starting to think that I need to work on my time management!

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving...