I can not believe it is already May! What happened to the first four months of this year. I swear my kids just went back to college only a few weeks ago. Now they will all be home next week. I know that time is a matter of perspective, being older my scale of time has expanded. When I was in elementary school summer seemed to last forever, now I blink and it is snowing again. I have so many things I need to get done over the next few months but it seems like it will be impossible unless I take the next two months off from work. Knowing that all that time off is not going to happen, I guess I better prioritize my to-do list. First, of course, is avoid working too hard. That seems impossible considering the rest of the list, chopping down trees rebuilding a bathroom, redoing the sprinklers, fixing up the new jeep. My only consolation is I don’t have to paint the house. I hate painting. I would rather dig a giant ditch or clean toilets than paint. I don’t know why I hate painting so much, perhaps it is all the tedious prep that has to happen, or that you have to be careful not to get it on the things you don’t want to be painted. I think my personality is more shotgun than a sniper. I have never got in trouble for getting dirt from my ditch on the other dirt in my yard. Whatever my quirks I still got to get it all done, so goodbye restful weekend, hello manual labor!