Dithering and a Decision

It's been several days since I started writing this blog and I still haven't posted the first entry. I have been going around and around trying to decide what the focus will be: my attempts to convert my one acre plot of land into a working homestead, my amateurish attempts to paint the beauty around me, my love of old-fashioned crafts/skills like crocheting, knitting, embroidery, and quilting, my political views that often send me on a rant? How about my need to write and the 15 or so unfinished manuscripts neatly packed away in a box "until I have time to finish them." Perhaps you would like to see the 25,000 photos I have taken mostly of animals and landscapes? Quilling, hypertufa...google it. And let's not forget the pond I am building in the backyard.

I wanted to reach and capture one audience, corner the market on a particular subject. But my mind doesn't work that way. I start each day with one goal, just one thing I want to accomplish, one simple thing to mark as done on my 6 page to-do list. By the end of the day I will usually have worked on anywhere from five to twenty-five unrelated things. It starts off with wanting to accomplish, say, making a new bio filter for my pond. That requires me to go on-line to research the best media to use, then over to amazon to order the parts, while I'm there I might as well check the pantry to see what else I need to order, which reminds me to check on feed supplies for the goats and chickens. But when I get to the door there's four dogs that need to be leashed and taken out. which also involves checking their food and water and while I am at it I may as well clean and fill the chicken waterers and Larry's pool needs to be scrubbed and filled so she will quit swimming in the chicken water and.... ooh! squirrel.

It may be a day or it may be a week before I get back to ordering the parts for the pond. So how can I commit to writing daily on just one subject? I guess the only thing I can do is just write about my life with all its twists and turns and distractions. Those with an interest in homesteading and surviving and prepping can read those posts, and those attuned to the arts, photography, painting and crafting can read when I post about those and, as the King would say, "Et cetera, et cetera, etcetera."