Back in the Saddle Again.

  It seems hard to believe that it has been 3 years since I last posted on this blog. I first started writing it as a way to be sure I didn't get bored. I guess that didn't happen. I first worried that we would get everything done to finally settle into cabin life and then we would look around and say "what now". Again this has not happened. We never seem to have enough hours in the day to get done the things we want to do. Where does the time go.

  I was joking with someone and while ago and commented that the time passes fast because we have no deadlines. What used to need to be done by noon can now take all day, or tomorrow. There are certain hard and fast deadlines, taxes, firewood, flights, but other than that you can be as flexible as you want. This can be a blessing and a curse. The blessing comes from the fact that you don't have to do anything that you don't want to right now. The curse comes from the fact that you will eventually have to do it and if you put off everything, all your chickens come home to roost at the same time.  So it seems that time management skills while less important are still a necessary evil in retirement. I guess that kind of explains my lack of writing, it wasn't a high priority at most times that my chickens were roosting.

  Over the last 3 years there have been life changes, health concerns, a brief detour back into the working world and some trips. Thankfully none of the bad things were really bad, just time consuming and worrisome at the time they were happening. Looking back on them we can now laugh at them all and realize in the grand scheme of things we are pretty lucky to be where we are.

 One of the positives of not having written for a while is that now I have some more writing ideas that I can share. New experiences to comment on and new hobbies to pursue.

  Recently while looking for a recipe, we remembered that we had done a blog about it. A quick search of the internet revealed the recipe that we thought we had lost. A couple of nice comments when we shared it brought us to reread our own blog and gave me the desire to write again.

  I hope to see you here in the future as I share the joys that life has offered us and some of the fruits of the new hobbies we have embarked upon. *Spoiler Alert*  There might be some pictures involved.