2021 Life Logs, Day 26: Lack of Focus
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Weather: Sunny AM, Snow PM; High 38, Low 31 Degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
It is snowing outside and the world is white and beautiful. It started snowing at about 3 pm, so after I picked up Ollie and took him home, Shadow and I came home and played ball in the snow. Shadow really loves the snow. He puts his nose down and uses it like a snowplow, eating the snow as he plows. And when the snowflakes are big enough, he jumps in the air to catch individual snowflakes in his mouth. We had an audience as we played in the falling snow. Two swans watched us the whole time. WeatherUnderground forecasts 3 inches by morning. Shadow will love that. But then the temp is supposed to rise to 40 degrees and most of the snow will melt. So, I will build in time in the morning to make sure he gets plenty of snow time.
If I thought day one with nothing on my calendar was not very productive, day two was worse. I am finding it hard to focus. I have so many different things I need to do, that I just bounce from one thing to another, completing nothing. Tomorrow is a half day of school, so I’ll be picking up Ollie early. Maybe I’ll dedicate tomorrow to playing in the snow, making chicken bone broth from the chicken I roasted for dinner tonight, and write a To Do list. I know what I need to do without the list, but maybe that would help. 
Today I did finish the winter scene jigsaw puzzle I have been working on and I, more or less, got the mountain of paperwork that has accumulated filed. Unfortunatelty, it didn’t feel like much.
My favorite thought for the day: On the news tonight, I heard President Biden using the phrase, “a rising tide lifts all boats”. I had never heard that before, but evidently it was popularized by John Kennedy. Biden was using the phrase to promote the macro-economic theory that an improved general economy will benefit all of us. So, let’s all hope for a rising tide.
