Loose ends: to gather or not to gather, that is the question

I seem to have misplaced the last two weeks. Night-shift does that to me — I sleep all day (six hours of it, anyway) and then when I’m off, I exist in a fog while I revert to being awake in the daytime, getting nothing at all done and feeling absolutely robbed of the day. Ack. Excuses aside, though, I’m definitely a delinquent blogger. I have, at least, been getting some words done on a couple writing projects, so that’s good. But blogging? What can I say….

Today was a gathering-up-of-loose-ends kind of day. I sorted recycling and items for the thrift store. I pulled more dead and dying foliage from my front garden and cut back some ground cover that had many loose wandering ends. I also plucked loads of mushrooms from my perpetually wet lawn. It looks a little tidier out there, but I’m wondering if I’d be smarter to go for the wild, natural look.

After the yardwork was done, I went back inside and changed the strings on my guitar (which, when the strings were cut but not removed, definitely had loose ends, hence it fits my theme here!). And I remembered how much I hate new strings! Well, okay, actually new strings are lovely, once they are not-quite-so-new-ish and hold their tune for more than a few minutes. Play one song, re-tune the guitar, play another song, re-tune the guitar…. Sigh.

Now I should do something with the loose ends that are in the form of STACKS of paperwork in my kitchen. Newsletters from three different schools, bills to pay, mail to sort, blah blah blah. A lot of trees died to bring me all that paperwork, so I guess I should at least read it and maybe move the piles around a bit.

Speaking of trees dying (notice the great segue?), a 1000-year-old cedar fell in Stanley Park this past week. It was one of the largest Western Red Cedars on the planet! Now it will be left as is to nourish the ground, et cetera, and nature will run its course. Which brings me back to my idea of scrapping yard work in favour of that natural look….

I may be onto something there — if nothing else, it would give me more time to blog.

Peace.