Daily Sketch/Mini Life Update

Allow me to tell you a quick story.

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A young(ish) girl pulls herself out of bed one early morning, woken by the insistent beeping of her alarm clock.

Eyes half closed with sleep, she quickly pulls on workout clothes and slips out of her bedroom in the pre-dawn light. Glittering frost covers everything, and she pulls on her farm jacket quickly, shivering. A tingling of chilly air greets her as she steps outside, heading across the gravel path to the chicken coop. 

A quick two scoops of feed fall into her bucket and she unlatches the gate, entering the chicken yard. The feed scatters, half in and half out of the feeder. She opens the chicken coop door, watching for a silent moment as chickens stumble out into the light—less awake than herself. The geese and ducks are the most alert, squawking their annoyance at her as she swings the gate shut again and latches it.

Dropping her (now empty) feed bucket off by the can of feed, she hurries, toes cringing in her crocks, back to the house and across the deck to the front gate. Chilly fingers struggle to open her brother’s hand-welded masterpiece before she finally heads across to her truck. 

The engine complains loudly when she turns the key in the ignition, but after a tense moment it finally starts. She waits a long moment, turning the air as hot as it can go, full blast at the windshield.

When the air starts making progress on the intricate icy spirals on the glass, she grabs her scraper and steps outside for a moment, loosening the ice and brushing it off quickly. Then back in the truck, she checks her mirrors and back window before popping the vehicle into reverse and backing out of the driveway.

Time for workout.

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Allow me to interrupt here to say that the girl in this story is, in fact, me. This is a rough sketch of most of my weekday mornings. I only workout three times a week, and on the other days Bible reading follows chicken-opening.

This morning my aunt and I did a boxing workout (pretty fun, actually!) before I headed back home, all too aware that I had zero idea of what my blog post would be about.

So I’m coming out truthfully here, and apologizing for not preparing a post this week. Even though it’s winter, things aren’t slowing down much over here! Instead, this last week was filled up with plans in the first day and a half, and I’ve been going somewhere or doing something pretty much every day.

Obviously, I could have planned a bit better.

I should have.

And I plan to do so this week—blocking out an actual time to write blog posts for the coming weeks!

But I figured a little morning sketch would be a fun (albeit random) addition to the regular posts. I hope you enjoyed it!

If you’d like more ‘daily sketch’ stories, let me know! It was rather fun to write 😀

Until next time, God bless!

~Janet

PS: What does your usual weekday morning look like?