Re: Dividing time between chores

[LeatherneckPA]

Well, since I retired at the end of August I have started to have more time. Substitute teaching does take up about 3-4 days a week, but I try not to work more than that.

As for around the property (remember, it's only a 1/4 acre right now) I practice a technique I learned from my father-in-law. Seemed like he was never real busy with any one thing, but he sure did get a lot done. I call it "puttering about". I go work on some little task, often part of a much larger task. Then I leave that and go do something else for a while. Might come back to it today, might be tomorrow. Who knows?

Like finishing the fence around my back yard. Dug and concreted three posts on Sunday. Went back Wednesday afternoon and installed the rails between them. Haven't even bought the boards yet. Waiting until I get the other seven posts in the ground.

You get the idea.

[bassntrout]

I do the strenuous and most pressing first-- like chainsaw work. Then as I get tired I switch to the easier stuff. Then I can go back later to the tough stuff.

[walls0stone]

some tasks I do with ouut let up due to time of year..Hay or building fence. But this is not a hobby, it's a farm so when we build fence..it's 3 or 8 days of drive'n posts and string'n wire....

But other days like you speak of are done by disstance from the house. Firewood is cut at the furthest part of the farm. So we go cut early...on the way back, check the cattle...then unload the wood...now i'm home at lunch time...eat..then out to the equipment building (across from house) to do whatever needs done there. The idea is that your working your way back to the house. You want to get inside the warmth? do this this and this..it's a mental game.

[TNDadx4]

wOs - I like what you said about starting from the farthest task and working your way back. It seems like that would save a lot of unneeded walking about.

Also, some people have more energy at different times of the day; for some, it's the morning, while others, in the afternoon. I do my most laborious work when I have the most energy.

[walls0stone]

Today I did it all bass-ack-words. I cut wood close to the house, due to the danger factor, then I went to town, then I went further from town..then drove to a place I'd not been....then came home drivingfrom drilling rig to drilling rig, handing out business cards and talking to people in the equipment business.

Now I'm back in the home office doing my normaly morning task, answering E-mails from yesterday and working on my radio staion stuff

HO HO..and for tonights supper.. the wife made Pancakes :)