A number of things have been conspiring against regular blog updates recently:
1. Work. I’ve been picking up a steady trickle of freelance copywriting / editing / proofreading / miscellaneous jobs over the past few weeks. Nothing very big, but the work I have been doing is a good start towards building a solid reputation and portfolio. Some of it has been simple advertising copywriting, some slightly more interesting (100 cooking and gardening tips for a website), but the bigger jobs I’ve picked up have been in the technical writing / editing field, one involved me re-writing an RFP response for a small company that was bidding on a municipal contract, and the other was a high-level editorial review of a set of technical software manuals. The variety keeps it interesting, at least. I have a possibility of a larger job coming up soon – 30,000 words worth of work-for-hire in a specific field of horticulture. Of course if I get it, there goes my time for a month!
2. Winter. My SAD has actually been astonishingly good this year, for a variety of reasons. But since it’s winter, there’s not a whole lot of homesteading-type activity going on, which is (for my own reasons) the main purpose of this blog. I’ve ordered the apple trees for planting in spring, and the chicks, and bought all my seeds & seed starting supplies. There will be more posting about starting seeds and vegetable garden planning beginning next week, rest assured.
3. Dog. Due to the above two factors, all I would be blogging about, if I were blogging, is the puppy. I would be talking about how we’ve started letting him off leash in the yard, how he loves going over the the Fearsranch to play with Jack, how I now make all his treats myself from scratch, how he’s shedding his winter undercoat, and so the entire house is covered in soft white fluff, and so on. And though his antics are endlessly fascinating to his father and me, the rest of you would almost certainly find endless doggie posts very boring. So in lieu, here’s a single, solitary cute picture of Carter:
I will be posting more regularly starting next week, including the post I owe Allison about the status of all my current craft projects.
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Pet antics are endlessly fascinating to me, but then I always enjoy hearing about what’s going on in my friends’ lives. If it’s important to you, then I want to hear about it.
Admittedly, I am biased.
Nooooo! More puppy! More puppy!
I am quite excited about the chicks and the apple trees, personally.
That’s great news about the freelance; I think you could do a bang-up job on 30K of horticulture. And the low SAD this winter is fantastic news, too.
I’m with Phnee: news about anything that’s important to you is interesting to read. Although I do understand the desire to keep things moderately homesteading-focused.