trying to focus on...oh look, a chicken!

[chelidon]

I have been struggling all day with the fact that my focus is totally non-existent. I've got a dozen things I need to be doing, and a dozen things I want to do after that, and I haven't gotten through even a fraction of them yet. I just found myself off online shopping for a chainsaw mill. Yes, I need one, sometime soon -- with the price of lumber these days, I'm going to need to start milling my own boards for furniture, beams and posts for cabins, etc. And aside from necessity, it's really nifty to think of all the things I will build with good wood milled from my own land. But do I need one *today*? Probably not. Same thing with the solar hot water panels I was researching, to supplement the wood boiler in the winter, and probably make it totally unnecessary to burn wood over the summer months. Yes, I want to put some in. Do I need to research that *right now*? Nope.

This isn't made any easier by the fact that today is a glorious, perfect day outside -- 74 degrees, blue sky, a light breeze, and all I want to do is go running through the woods and take a big splashy romp in the stream. But first, but first...a few important things to do.

Sometimes I can get heads-down and just tear through my to-do list, but wow, this is sure not one of those days. So...now I'm going to stop writing on LJ and get to work. That is, unless something else comes along to distract me, and...oh, look, what's *that*? ;>

Hmmph.

Comments

[snakey.livejournal.com]

*distracts you*

I have an attention span shorter than the proverbial goldfish's. There are just so many interesting, sparkly, pretty things in the world, all infinitely more entertaining than whatever I'm meant to be doing....

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

*lol* I resemble that remark, far too often...

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

chainsaw mill sounds cool....

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is! When I got my chainsaw last year (a big ol' Husqvarna), I bought it oversized anticipating I might want to use it in a mill. I can't wait, actually, to make stuff with wood from my own land. That makes me some kind of geek, perhaps, but there's nothing new there, other than the new topic of geekery ;>

and I'm serious about lumber prices. Dang, it's getting totally out of hand. If I can make my own, though, all I need is to keep the chainsaw in good working order. And a little time...

[snakey.livejournal.com]

My father has thirteen chainsaws. At least, he did when we lived there; he might have more now. From little bitty ones to great big lethal things, all in various stages of watch-out-or-it'll-take-your-arm-off disrepair.

My family are disturbing.

Though not as disturbing as the guy at the feed store who almost entirely severed his arm with a chainsaw and had to have it reattached...when my dad took me there as a kid to get poultry feed this guy would show off his gruesome scar and tell horrible stories about dangling tendons.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Wow. A coven of chainsaws. Something like a murder of crows, I suppose...

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

of course once you have the mill you'd need a thicknesser to even out the planks (unless you already have one) These are also fun! dad and I spent many hours feeding planks in and watching them come out all nice and even.

sad I know...

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

*grin* Sounds like great fun to me, but I'm addicted to the smell of sawdust, donchaknow. I do have a really nice DeWalt thickness planer, so I should be able to make most of what I need. I'm thinking of taking a drawknife and an adze to some of the posts and planks, just to practice how to do it the old way, but that's a whoooole lot of work.

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

we built garage doors the old fashioned way. The thicknesser made life a whole load easier!

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

Are chainsaws difficult to learn to use? I realized recently that I'd like to learn. But I don't have one, and I don't NEED one, so this is kind of an idle desire...

[contentlove.livejournal.com]

I'm having that kind of day too. So I'm going to the gym.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

good plan. If I'd had any brains, I'd have gone out for a long walk earlier in the day, but now I'm running out of day. Can't let work run too late into Friday evening! I have margaritas to make! Sacred duty! Sacred duty!

[miriams-well.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to be writing Nice Things about Myself. Which, for a Leo, I'm finding particularly difficult.

So I'm all about the "ooh, shiny" right now. And the telling of my colleagues, "Please dream up a huge problem for me to solve. Thx."

Ehhh.

Ooooh, look: shiny!

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are evil. Which I approve of ;>

But turnabout is so very fair play. so... here (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/choccy/)!

[miriams-well.livejournal.com]

Nobody hates the chocolate! Everyone loves the chocolate!

[snakey.livejournal.com]

NOT MANDATORY!

[miriams-well.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee!!!!

[contentlove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what he said. Pure evil. Naturally, I've posted it to my own LJ.