Aside from homestead harvest stuff, I have been spending my mornings creating my very first email campaign for my website that I have had for over a year.
Well, not really slow, it was more that I was a bit over-obligated, so I had to spend a few months un-obligating myself.
Anyway, part of my whole life restructuring, along with getting plenty of rest and self-care, includes allocating my precious time to projects that truly matter to me. My author website and various books that I have had in the works for years are one of those projects.
That said, bootstrapping an entire author website, making an opt-in to newsletter for free pdf e-book popup, and setting up an email service and said newsletter, while not as hard as years ago, is still a pretty interesting adventure seeing how I have absolutely no idea what I am doing.
Which of course means that I have to learn as I go.
Which of course means it is taking a while.
And my brain hurts.
The hubs, while I have been working on this project, has been out working in his woodshop and forge. He's doing similar big brain things, just on another creative playing field.
And when I finally threw up my hands after making some progress along with a few setbacks and went to the gym to run and lift it out, that I came home to him whittling a spoon on the porch in the beautiful autumn sun.
I sat next to him, smiling contentedly as my muscles quieted down (I ran a lot today), and he suddenly blurted,
"I'm taking you to get something to eat."
A short while later we rolled through our town's new drive-thru burger shack, and after a few more minutes we were gliding down to the lakeside park in our town, bag of bacon cheeseburgers, fries, and fry sauce sitting on the console between us.
The hub's mood improved as we drove towards the lake from the stand as he was sipping a huckleberry milkshake that was honestly larger than my head. I burst into a large smile when I saw that there was only one person at our little lakeside park, we basically had the whole grassy retreat to ourselves.
The next half hour we spent in each other's company was just glorious. The frustrations of the day dissolved with each bite of perfectly cooked burger we took. Our conversation ebbed and flowed around all manner of topics as we dipped our crispy fries into some very tangy and tasty fry sauce. It was just so dang pleasant.
I am so thankful to have these little moments again. After being so over scheduled for so many years and not having my spouse home with us for half a year, I feel like I've been given a gift!
And tomorrow when I am in the land of API keys and integration applications I'll remember what I have to look forward too😊
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken on the author's not dropped in goose droppings which really is saying something iPhone.
