PIP I wonder that you do not set out bales (broken open) of hay or something but then I don't have deer to contend with here ... wildest life we got around here went away when the woman who had rabbits -- rabbits which were adventurous and clever and frequently escaped -- she moved. The hens the woman across the street fell prey to hungry (feral) cats. No loss in my opinion since the rooster, king of the coop, kept odd hours and crowed at every moment.
And the man who played music 11 pm to 3 am when tanked up moved out (blessed silence) ... yes, and HE was three houses down the street and I can imagine what the closer folk thought
WEATHER is ... well, not erratic, no, just not ... just not what I'd like to see, torn as I am between "I do not want to face more drought come spring and summer 2020 but I don't want to be flooded out and can we PLEASE have 2 days back to back of blue skies and sunshine? Hmm?" Instead of a few hours at odd times (in the daytime) with the clouds / drizzle / fog playing peek a boo with sunshine ...
GENEALOGICALLY I crawled into a deep cave at the start of November and had not done much compared to the prior 17 or 18 months but I am slowly coming back out ... and do not foresee that I will return to the Club 1000 again -- might surprise myself, but ... the body rebels more often and it takes "more" to get anything done
NEVERTHELESS I made a few connections and not a few new profiles and always confronted with "Um. How much do I want to do beyond a census, and sources for birth death and marriage(s)?"
And someone suggested I try doing some Narrative Profiles and I've tested it on two and I have to say I wonder if I will "master" turning what I can collect into prose that reads well? I will continue to contemplate style, but ... and yes, I won't master unless I practice ... but there's so MUCH else I think I need to do on what I HAVE so far ...
However, I think I am about to decide -- may have done so pretty much in fact -- to stick to revising my earliest efforts (up through Jul 2019) and just sure what I have is readable and Genealogically Defined and if I do that much, the Genealogically Defined stuff, I'm a Good Girl.
And can pat myself on my shoulder (and we have a fading shot of Lassie sitting on her hinder and barking the traditional three barks and every human there laughs happily) ...
Eh. I've been scolded AGAIN (LOL) for starting some more food fights (REALLY??? the people what get all wound up are the ones doing the fighting) AND whatever I said was "buried" (bless Ellen SMITH, overworked on shift ... some tend to be a fractious lot, I gather, in g2g) and I've been handed the kudos (ditto) on YOUR ANSWER got a gold star, mostly I suspect because it was the ONLY answer there (LOL) ... and no doubt was dethroned in at least half the times ...
I'm TRYING to be careful but I don't seem to understand the UNWRITTEN rules (a spade is a spade, and a shovel is a shovel, just google it and you'll SEE that) ... doing okay with the Rules I KNOW about (once again I bless Ellen Smith, poor woman, taxed to the nth at her duties) (she assures me I'm not the only one she "speaks to") ... (her keyboard is in danger of collapsing, IMO) (I'd like to think I'm the Joy of her Golden Years, but I gather there's more than a handful of us she has to be firm with ...) (she's REALLY a wonderful instructess)
WHICH all foregoing about sums up the latter half of Oct, all of Nov and two weeks and counting in Dec ...
Well, there's (always) room for improvement, in my profiles and in my "mastering" what I suppose is tact, diplomacy and that ilk ... (oh, I love that word 'ilk' and what it means, someone explained it in g2g and I just LOVE it)
Hasta manana et adios