It has been a whirlwind of activity this last week or two. We are exhausted. Today may – just may – be a day ‘without work’. We’ll see. Sal will set the pace. As usual. If something needs doin’, it is hard for Sal not to do it. And so it will get done.

I confess that it is easier for me to ignore a chore and not lose a second of downtime to worrying about it. Not Sal. I also confess to actually enjoying watching her do it sometimes but that can be fraught with danger so I try to at least ‘hide’ when that energy-cum-guilt discrepancy is manifest.

And, of course, there are still things needin’ doin’ by me like getting the newly found logs up, getting the winches off the dock and completing the tracks for the funicular extension. Not to mention Sal having the garden, the clean-up after the guests, re-stocking the larder and all the weird paperwork that seems to be attached.

And that is only the half of it. Things like checking the water levels of the batteries, the cistern, refueling, gardening, gutter-cleaning and those jobs more accurately described as regular, routine and mundane are just as pressing when they have been ‘put aside’ for a few weeks of guests.

I have to swap over a few batteries, too………..

Then there is the world around us. A friend bought a huge 85-foot luxury-commercial fishing boat and wants to plan business strategies. Another had an accidental spark burn his boat to the waterline. He needs help in the clean-up. There is a mediation a-brewing in Vancouver. The teachers we are sending to Hong Kong are needing information and administrative support. We have seasonal chores, guests arriving next week and I still have a few days left on the Bunkhouse project.

I guess our list of to-do chores is of no real interest to anyone but, don’t forget, this blog is a blog of the mundane – the daily doings of two living off the grid. We never promised you a rose garden but, now that I mention it, the salad garden is going gangbusters.

I guess, like many people, I tend to muse out loud about what I am doing, going to do, should be doing and have done recently as a way of connecting with people. You know, like sharing common experiences in life? We all have things to do and it is like ‘bonding’, I guess.

Feeling closer, are ya?