All Alone-ish

Tonight my wife leaves me.

At least she gave me warning – I suppose that was nice of her.

On the other hand, she sort of had to since I’m the one driving her into the city – how else would she catch her flight?

She’s off to Virginia to visit her father for just over a week. Leaving me all alone … with the dog, cats, and fowl. With the sheep now gone, there is little work involved with maintaining the homestead. I don’t even really need to get up early – sure the swam of feathers will be cross with me if they don’t get feed at the usual time, but they will live.

So what will I do with myself during this time? I will do what I have been doing for the past week – work on getting a number of projects done. I have made the rams horn into an instrument – but I still have to finish making it pretty. I have a ring that needs finishing up, and I have a number of tokens to complete. I also have to put together a class on how to make a pennebular brooch from twisted copper wire. Those are just the projects with a deadline – there are a number more waiting.

I will also spend time watching Netflix shows and movies, just not with my wife beside me on the couch. The puppy will need a bit more attention – she always does when one of us is away but I can live with that burden.

The time will both crawl and fly, like a wounded wyvern. I’m trying to look at it as a time to buckle down and get serious amounts of work done, altering my schedule some to get more hours of work in. If I fail, well it’s really no big deal. This is my time schedule, my projects, I owe nobody nothing but my own desire to see things accomplished.

I’m going to try and enjoy the time, and try not to miss my wife too much – there is no way to not miss her, but I might be able to limit it by keeping busy.

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