I’ve crossed my fingers and put all my energies into hoping
for an early spring. Should that wish be granted, I’ll have a lot of tasks that
need to be completed, ASAP. The best way I’ve found to accomplish that is to
make a To Do List.
Some early spring chores I recommend doing now are: 1) Apply
chicken poo to your flower beds. The fertilizer will make all your plants happy
and vigorous-- applying it now means your neighbors will be that much less
likely to share in the aromatherapy. 2) Give your motorized gardening equipment
a tune up so all will be ready and operational when mowing season rolls around.
I can check Task Number Two off of my to do list already, as
I accidently accomplished it last fall. My mower made the trip in to see the
Mower Doctor because the spinnyroundythingy that drives the blades wouldn’t
spinnyroundy unless you first shoved a stick in there and made it engage. Full
confession: I did that a couple of times so I could finish mowing, but
eventually that was too redneck, even for me, and I gave in and sent my mower
Out Town to be repaired. And while they had it, might as well give the old girl
the full spa treatment. Lawnmower tune-up: CHECK.
With backfilling my list at the end of the day, it looks
more like this: 1) Pay bills on line. CHECK. 1A-infinity) Read All of Twitter.
CHECK. 2) Fold Laundry. 2A) Reorganize sock drawer. CHECK. 2B) Discard old
socks. CHECK. 2C) Retrieve old socks from garbage. CHECK. 2D) Make cat toy utilizing old sock, catnip,
and dryer lint. CHECK. 2E) Play rousing game of WHEN SOCKS ATTACK with cats.
CHECK. 2F) take catnap. CHECK. 3) Clean cat box. Not checked. Who has time for
that? Look at all the OTHER STUFF I accomplished today! 4) Clean dryer lint
trap. CHECK!
Backfilled properly, even the laziest of To Do lists and
give you quite the sense of accomplishment.
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