Running a Muddy Trail
A Long Time Coming
{ 08:04, 26 September 2008 }
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It's been a good summer. It's also been a long summer: major building projects, twice as many weeks of farmer's markets as last year, and increased production overall. More hours at my "real" job, plus a two-week work trip to Oregon and, of course, The Olympics, which, when you work for a running publication, throw an enormous wrench into your normal pattern. Throw in a few things for fun: visits from family & friends (summer is visitin' season on a "farm"), wild-blueberry-picking camping trips (with said family), weddings, training for and racing a 40 mile race, and helping out with a friend's 50 mile (overnight) race (during the previously mentioned Olympics) and Yoiks! you end up with a really full 4 glorious months. I enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. Restated, I enjoyed more than enough of it to be able to block out the less-enjoyable parts and say that indeed, I enjoyed every minute of it. period.
BUT.
I'm really looking forward to the winter! Sure, there will still be projects, vegetables, and even a few farmer's markets to attend to. There'll be work, and meetings and some running on our own and winter is the season where we go visiting, instead of waiting for folks to come for us. But the pace changes in the winter. We feel less guilty about spending time reading. It is in the winter that we blow through the books, cramming ourselves full of ideas to try out the next time summer hits.
Winter is also the season of anticipation, and anyone who can remember Christmas as a kid (and perhaps for some, Christmas as an adult as well) the anticipation is often the best part. This winter will be full of anticipation. We set a lot of balls rolling this summer, that will undoubtedly pick up speed over the winter months. When spring starts showing up, we will see where we are and where our ideas have ended up after a long-winter's nap, and we'll start the next lap in this crazy life we are all living together.
There's also some knitting projects to get down to business on. And maybe this winter, I'll figure out how to knit and read at the same time; double the pleasures, double the fun.
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