Saturday, January 30, 2016

Priorities

This bit was written in 2011, but just now published, so it shows up in 2016.  I want to leave it here because I want to keep it, but if you know me, it won't make sense to be in 2016.



So here I am home from harp school and Pete is in Maine, hopefully happy, at Boat School.  My mental list of things to do while he's away is crowded with obligations - mostly having to do with the up-coming county fair and the extension homemakers food booth.  The rapidly growing weedy grass, some family errands, and household chores fill much of the rest. 

After a sleep catching up nap on Sunday, I decided to mow the lawn.  About a third of the way through it the mower broke. 

Monday afternoon the well pump quit in the middle of a load of laundry.

Tuesday morning my coffee grinder gave up the ghost.

By afternoon on Tuesday the pump was fixed (thanks to the wonderful fellow from Moss Well Drilling), I had located a repair person who promises to pick up (and presumably fix) the mower, I had located another coffee grinder, and I made a pot of coffee.

Dealing with these crisis (however mundane and truthfully insignificant) has put all else in perspective and I have revised my list.

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