They wanted to do photos in the book and they wanted me to take the photos!

And then you get bored.And then you get slow and sloppy and distracted.

I like to play little mini games with all of my tasks throughout the day to keep myself on my toes and to make things feel a little more fun and challenging.Sometimes it’s writing all of the jobs down on little pieces of paper and pulling a new job out of a jar every 5 minutes, sometimes it’s folding 10 pieces of clothing in between each mini task of the day, sometimes it’s trying to do 37 30-second jobs all in a row.It really all depends on my mood and what makes the idea of doing a whole ton of work in a short amount of time seem less daunting on that particular day.

Actually, I’m playing a little game right now as I write this post!.Set up routines..

I can’t tell you enough how much I love my routines.

I should say right now, before I really get into this particular mini-rant, that I don’t really have my routines totally memorized, and I even keep those in a list on my phone so that I don’t even have to worry about remembering those if my mind is elsewhere, occupied by other brilliant thoughts that day.An individual bird of prey.

A family pet exploring the fall scenery.Wildlife preparing for the winter hibernation.

Local sports under the lights.Dusty gravel roads.