FOCUS, FOCUS

We finally got rain this week and the temperatures have been so much more bearable!

The past couple of weeks have been busy but I sure haven’t made enough progress on my many projects to feel I’ve accomplished anything. I have so many WIPs (works in progess) but because Every.One.Of.Them is out, on display, throughout the house, the visual clutter is messing with my ability to focus … and, subsequently to get them done.

If I walk in the bedroom, I see the quilts I need to work on. If I go to the living room, I see the chair I moved out of the bedroom to move my quilting table in a more useable spot, plastic totes in various stages of filling or emptying, a pile started for donation, family history boxes that I’m reviewing, items displaced from one spot that don’t have a new place to belong. The dining room has my old bed, the worm bin, the ironing board (for the quilting I’m not working on), and a table full of filled canning jars that need to be cleaned, labeled, and put away. The kitchen and fridge are full of fruit to be canned and canning equipment. Sigh, you get the picture.

Even with picking up one thing, dropping it and picking up another, I am making progress on some of my projects … although it just seems to create more of a mess, not less. My rearranged bedroom looks better (less cluttered) than it did. I found some old pictures I was looking for so I can move to the next step of that project. I did get the blueberries (picked yesterday) and 1/3 of the bushel of peaches (purchased last week) canned. The Prime Day purchases have been partially put away.

My only hope in all this is that every little bit helps, eventually, right?