Although I’ve been enjoying the relative calm that has resulted from the late spring, it’s starting to to make me nervous. Because I have not been feeling well — I caught Ellen’s nasty cold –  I have been thankful that the cold, wet whether has prevented us from doing spring chores like barn cleaning, planting the garden and weeding the flower beds this week and that I could rest instead of work.

However, I know a day of reckoning will come and that when the skies finally clear and the temperatures warm , there will be alot of work to get done.

Last night when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep, I started thinking about the long list of chores and started to feel a little panicky. Of course, that didn’t help  my insomnia, so while I was lying there awake I figured out a plan of attack. Once I had my strategy, the list didn’t seem so overwhelming and I fell asleep. The trouble is that the hours I was awake thinking about work nearly outnumbered the hours I was asleep, so I am tired today. I’m kind of glad that it will be too wet to work. Hopefully, though, I won’t wake up in the middle of the night worrying about how I’ll get it done when it’s not…