The tumbleweed is my spirit animal

Spent a remarkably long time making email filters yesterday: too many things i don't want to unsubscribe from but are frustrating when mixed in with different messages. Hopefully tagging and sorting by those tags will create an easy to skim, easy to purge alternative inbox.

Then worked on the work thing.

I sat on the couch all day and think that did in my lower back. I didn't want to sit at the desk.

Spicebush berries are coming in. I haven't used the ones from last year: too much waiting for a special occasion. I'd mashed the fatty fruit part up with sugar creating a rosy orange sugar i kept in the fridge. I'll probably do that again as well as a dehydration batch.

Meeting my dad and sister to celebrate Mom's birthday today. I had completely forgotten it. Which has no emotional significance for me - just the relational piece of being surprised with the need to participate in a gather.

So there's a 100 character limit on post subjects at both dreamwidth and livejournal. Not sure what went south with yesterday's tagging on dreamwidth, but maybe there's a limit to how many tags will be accepted by that email processor.

Yellow-throated vireo singing, says Merlin. I knew it was an unfamiliar call!.

Met goals yesterday. Challenge is that i am still chiding myself for not doing All The Things. No, doing All The Things is not the goal. Just getting the baseline.  Admittedly, the meditation goal implies a certain amount of other morning things. The goal was more, "recognize that there's a list that starts at 7:20 am ten minutes earlier (at 7 am) and actually start the list on time so that the ten minute meditation can be included."

This morning's sitting at the computer slipped away.... (because troubleshooting)

I've been ungrounded off and on the past few weeks. Goal #1 for tomorrow is to manage my morning so i can sit with Christine for ten minutes and meditate. I've shifted my "warning" alarm ten minutes earlier so hopefully i will get up from morning computer time in time for that and the rest of getting ready for work.

Stretch goal is to get my ten minute walk in.

Figs are coming in quickly. I tried making fig jam on Sunday but have more of a fig syrup. 2 pint jars, 3 12 oz jars and an 8 oz jar. (One of the 12 oz didn't seal and is in the fridge.)  I am pondering that maybe i just didn't get it hot enough and i should reprocess. Or, i dunno, wait try again with More Figs, since these are at least preserved for the time being.

Weather is shifting and working outside is imaginable. I've actually got radishes, beets, spinach, and collards started in one bed (that i should probably protect from deer soon). I started weeding some of the beds in the fenced garden area -- i will seed that soon, too, with winter plants.  Although i should probably amend the soil before that. It's still too hot for lettuce to germinate, but i started some inside. goals