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Yesterday afternoon, the tree branches were bouncing in the breeze, making that soothing rustling sound that makes me want to stretch out on the grass and roll around in the sound. It was tempting. I had lots to do, and for once, I didn’t feel like doing it. This has been a really busy summer.
But you know how many goats, chickens, cows, and dogs would be on top of me if I sat down on the grass?
Checking off rolling in the grass, I tried to make a list of things I’d do with my summer if I had nothing else to do. Or at least not so much to do. Like, if I had free time. Not that I want free time. I like to be busy.
But sometimes I wish I had free time. Even though I don’t want it.
I’m so conflicted.
So here’s my list:
1. Take a photography course online so that maybe someday I might know what I’m doing.
2. Try out some more creative, gourmet canning recipes. I’m always just rushing to keep whatever from spoiling, so I mostly can the basics.
3. Watch a movie. Or three. That sounds so decadent.
4. Read more books. You know what Morgan’s been reading this summer? Here’s a sampling:
Trouble with Mr. Darcy
Loving Mr. Darcy
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One
I know this because we share the same account so I see everything she downloads. She has a fixation with Pride and Prejudice. And she has nothing to do.
5. Do something about that 5-gallon bucket of new potatoes downstairs before they rot.
Oh, yeah.
Bye.
P.S. What would you do if you didn’t have so much to do? I need to add to my list. Like, for when I have some free time. And it can’t be expensive fantasy stuff like renting a villa in Tuscany for the summer. That’s cheating. I want to hear real people stuff!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on July 29, 2011
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Granny Trace
http://www.grannytracescrapsandsquares.com
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1. I would brush my schnauzers more so they aren’t matted up like a brillo pad when it is time for haircuts.
2. I would have play dates for my photography. Used to do this in FL with 2 friends (also photographers). Sometimes we went in the middle of nowhere and sometimes to an event- or maybe a cemetary at dawn with infrared film. It was such fun and we all got together later to compare photos.
3. Actually go to some movies- not just watch on tv. When I watch at home I always feel like I should be doing something else.
That’s all I can think of this early!
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I’d love to work more steadily on my knit and crochet projects, too. And sew! And watch movies!
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Tell Morgan she should watch the movie “Lost in Austen”. Such a good movie! I think she’d love it.
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Take a class on watercolor painting
Scrapbook
Take a day and just browse the local fleamarkets and antique shops.
I thought I would do all of those things before school started again, school is coming on faster than a speeding bullet!
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Go wading in the creek and catch frogs…
Pick blueberries – yes, it sounds like work, but picking them and not being in a hurry to do so is kind of relaxing… and then I could pick way more than I ‘need’ and could take bags of them around to all my elderly neighbors for their freezers and sit with them on their front porches for hours and listen to their stories of days gone by and not be in such a rush to get home to my chores…
Hmmm… maybe a change in the chore schedule is in order…
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Suzanne, I found this site this morning. Applies to #2 on your list…. http://www.foodinjars.com/
Love the chive blossom vinegar – PINK! Makes me smile just looking at it!
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Back to reality, 8 hours of work, hair appointment, sewing four skirts for a musical we are rehearsal every night that opens on Friday and maybe I can pull something out of the freezer for dinner!
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Or I have a friend who lives 60 miles from me that I would like to spend a few days with and she always welcomes me. It only costs me gas to get there in Astoria, Oregon.
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Currently rereading the “Dune” Series, next up on my list is rereading “The Stand” by my favorite author. Stephen King. He thinks like I do.
As soon as I get rid of the bed in the spare bedroom, I will finish converting it to a proper quilt studio with design walls.
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Get caught up on my Coronation Street episodes (seriously addicted, no time to watch!), sit and learn how to do folk art painting; bought a learn to do at home kit, no time!! Finish our house to put up for sale, bake, cook, freeze the said baking and cooking, and perhaps just get caught up with Me. That would be nice!
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2. Spend the day at the library reading all the magazines I’m too cheap to buy, especially the expensive ones like Architectural Digest, even the back issues.
3. Get an Australian Shepherd of my own (I borrow my son’s dog) and do agility training. This would require major free time, maybe even retirement.
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Or… in the back… I would lounge on the still imaginary screen porch and look at the chicken pens, baby pecan trees, roses with no grass, and over the top of the chicken pens, would see NOTHING in the way until you get to the lovely cemetery. SIGH… and the breezes would blow and windchimes would tinkle. The neighbors donkeys would bray.
BUT. The flaw in that is that I must do the mowing and weedeating and hand weeding, and clean the porch, and, the tomatoes need picking again, the green beans are just right to pick, something is eating the brussel sprouts, and there is not a rose in sight that wants to bloom. There is never “Nothing to do.”
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-Road trips to cute little towns with neat little shops and farms for fresh summer produce.
-Come home and make jams and jellies and artistic relishes and chutneys. Eat them all with homemade bread and fresh milk.
-Stop at every roadside produce stand on the way to above mentioned cute little town.
And this is exactly what I’m planning to do, NEXT summer when I’ll be on that other side of the pond.
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- Organize my photos
- spend the day watching Lifetime for women
- take a cooking class
- my favorite …stay at the lake on a houseboat where life is simple and peaceful
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I would also go to more farmers markets. We seem to intend to go and get so busy in the morning that by the time we remember, they’re closed.
Also, if you would like an interesting canning recipe, I have one for European Fermented Raspberry Syrup. It’s delicious on crepes or with soda water. It’s easy and seems exotic.
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Whaledancer I wish for you to feel well & be able to do all of the above
As for myself; if I had nothing to do, I would nap, knit or go shopping at some thrift stores or antique shops