Space Three and November Goal Report

 

I'm amazed that the grass has continued to stand up despite heavy rain and the first snow. Consequently, space three is cleared!



I'm sure every place you'd attempt to whack weeds there would be one plant that was annoying. In this space it's the witch grass, which you can see being beautiful if you follow that link. However, for purposes of cutting it, what a pain! It grows in thick clumps with very soft leaves that just want to entangle the blade rather than get cut off short.

And what about ALL that cut grass? Dumped in a place that doesn't matter. But it's quite a pile.



There are two more spaces to whack. Will I get them done? Not likely, but if the weather holds out, I'll keep chopping at them. I do have to nip off all the baby autumn olive trees that spring up instantly.

And now, it's the end of the month, so here's my report on progress toward my goals. Not great, but I did some things, and have to allow myself some leeway because of all those extra work hours.

54 in 300, report on day 37
Number	Category	Item	November	Total
1	WRITING	begin working on North Country Quest again	nothing	nothing
2	WRITING	edit Kiss of the Butterfly, submit for publication	nothing	nothing
3	WRITING	100 NC History pages	did some preliminary planning	none
4	WRITING	blog about 8 wild foods	none	none
5	WRITING	finish Dead Mule Swamp Druggist	chapter 20	2 chapters added
6	WRITING	do 10 book promotion things	1, have an article in Aaron Paul Lazar's Write Like the Wind which will also be on his blog in Dec	2
7	WRITING	writing schedule day 50 times	4	5
8	WRITING	5 entries in Off the Sanctuary Wall	none	none
9	WRITING	pursue a contract I can't name yet	nothing	nothing
10	WRITING	talk to 5 bookstores about carrying mysteries	none	none
11	HOUSE	fix kitchen drawer	DONE	DONE
12	HOUSE	cut down 5 autumn olive trees	none	none
13	HOUSE	clean refrigerator twice	none	none
14	HOUSE	replace kitchen faucet	nothing	nothing
15	HOUSE	get lawnmower fixed	nothing	nothing
16	HOUSE	clean terrace	nothing	nothing
17	HOUSE	kitchen light electric box	nothing	nothing
18	HOUSE	replace faucet by washing machine	nothing	nothing
19	HOUSE	put away model railroad stuff	none	none
20	HOUSE	spend 10 hours sorting books	1	need to buy a new, brighter light bulb for that space!
21	FITNESS	increase to 30 pushups	16	increase of 4 this month
22	FITNESS	increase to 100 jumping jacks	50	increase of 20
23	FITNESS	increase to 2 min planking	70 sec	increase of 10 sec
24	FITNESS	walk, bike, ski or snowshoe 200 times	5	8, this is terrible, but I was just too tired after all those extra work hours to walk
25	HIKING	NCT Hike 100 Challenge for 2016	none	doesn't start till Jan 1
26	HIKING	visit 5 new MI counties to explore trails	none	none
27	HIKING	hike 100 more miles of the Buckeye Trail	none	next spring
28	HIKING	clear my trail better	5	have worked on it a total of 8 days, terrible
29	PERSONAL	Savings Goal	none	none
30	PERSONAL	Financial Goal #2	nothing	nothing
31	PERSONAL	lose 10 pounds	1	I think I can safely claim to have lost 1
32	PERSONAL	play music 50 times	3	5
33	PERSONAL	other #1 (200 times)	7	12, not on track
34	PERSONAL	other #2	1	1, not on track
35	MISC	make 21 quarts juice	4, made the rest of the apples into cider	7 total
36	MISC	try 10 new wild foods	none	none
37	MISC	some genealogy stuff	nothing	nothing
38	MISC	100 more pix on Shark Shots	none	none
39	MISC	2 photo cards documented	nothing	nothing
40	MISC	give 10 gifts from my kitchen	none	none
41	MISC	eat at Brenda's Burgers	nothing	nothing
42	MISC	eat at Country Critters	nothing	but I'd better, because it's for sale
43	MISC	take my trailer on 2 trips	none	none
44	MISC	finish monkey booties	nothing	nothing
45	MISC	get two programs NCT and Kitchen Sink	none	none
46	MISC	get rid of 100 things	7, sold some things on eBay	7
47	MISC	read or listen to 100 books	6, best one was Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson, set in the early 1900's when many lynchings happened in the south	6
48	MISC	move NCC from Josh's garage	nothing	nothing
49	MISC	short bios of 5 relatives	none	none
50	MISC	sort my fabric	nothing	nothing
51	MISC	do something inside my trailer	nothing	nothing
52	MISC	add 50 things to family heritage list	none	none
53	MISC	some VCR tapes to DVD	none	none
54	MISC	some cassette tapes to CD	none	none

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