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to do your main pruning plant moving etc in late winter or mid to late fall but one of them is that you may inadvertently destroy a nest full of chicks or expose them to the weather and predators also beware of disposing of debris piles that have sat around a long time a random summer day may not be the best time to light that baby up quite a few birds like nesting in what they see as a nice undisturbed debris pile where large predators will have a hard time finding them if they even bother to look in such a place the birds don t know it s slated for burning at your next convenience thank you for checking or simply waiting until after the nesting season before you dispose of that loose pile of branches from the wind storm a while back conversely if you want to create an odd but often attractive nesting site for birds that like to nest close to ground level you can build a debris pile for them and make it quite attractive with complementary plantings and found art they may or may not use it and eventually decay will make it flat but a debris pile can be attractive for quite some time and if you do get some nesting birds there it s super fun to watch them dash back and forth while they re raising their babies thank you for reading posted by kami at 4 35 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birds garden gardening spring tuesday january 26 2016 transitioning into full time writing pt 2 i ve now been a full time writer for a little over three weeks if you ignore my son s wedding and then going to canada for a week weird incidentals the indoor dog chase is flipping out she s now realizing that i m going to be home all day for the most part except shopping excursions every day and it s turning her into a hyperactive maniac who now races back and forth wherever we go going to the garden she runs the ever shortening distance a dozen times to my one ears laid back for extra streamlining mouth open for more air tongue inside mouth to reduce drag going back in the house it s up and down the stairs and then back and forth across the deck and then she leaps and bangs her feet against the sliding door because it needs to be opened oh and she scratches at the door not only to be let out but to let me know that one or both of the cats need to be let in because apparently that s why i m staying home to play with her and the cats and to let everyone in and out it s chase s job to make sure i stay on top of that i m organizing stuff at home to make things more efficient so i can maximize my writing time it s true weird example now that i m home i scoop the litter boxes at least once if not twice a day it makes the house more pleasant and makes the litter last longer i have decided this is true don t burst my bubble i realized it would be so much less tedious if i had one of those flip top garbage cans just a wee one right next to the litter box then when it s full i can take the used litter out found one with a little bucket inside handle and all mine litter stays clean and i can scoop right after i feed the chickens and steal their eggs without having to hunt for a garbage bag now i know why some housewives are so organized it s not necessarily because they re ocd or obsessed with cleanliness it s because having things unorganized is super super annoying when you have a lot of things to do when our kids were little and i was a stay at home mom i didn t have a lot of things to do except keep up on laundry and make sure that there was food a lack of medical emergencies and minimal squalor was not super good about that last part now that i no longer have a day job and i have no kids my expectation is that i ll have all kinds of time to write right well except that clutter is distracting and dealing inefficiently with the clutter is annoying and laundry and dishes still need to happen as does shopping and cooking and i have to feed the farm animals and get the garden ready for spring and all at once i became aware that time is limited even when in theory and barring accidents or illness you have lots of it and when it comes to chores i want to minimize them to maximize this work time thing and you know we all know that if i let things pile up deeper and deeper i won t write i ll dabble at writing and fret and putter which is awful and inefficient besides if i ignore chores too long suddenly i m looking at six weeks of solid cleaning and zero writing time to get my environment to the point where i stop looking over my shoulder to see if the laundry is sneaking up on me preparing to leap and then smother me this versus an hour or two each day for a couple of chores which i rotate through and maybe i can squeeze in a little extra once a week so that you make overall headway it can be done i m proving it to myself when i started this journey i thought i d be writing all day and writing all night with the occasional foray into book and cover design then i ran out of underwear which might not have mattered except that all my most comfortable jeans were also dirty and i ran out of bowls and suddenly taking a break to have a meal turned into a travesty and showering in the morning and getting into real clothes turned into a chore and so i wore pajamas until i had to feed the farm animals and i did that in sweats with a sweater over my sleeping shirt and i thought this is not what i envisioned my dream job to be where i have to take over an hour for lunch because i have to clear the counters and wash a bowl first people posted that image of a writing nook with the huge windows looking out at a winter scene with the comfy chair and the floor lamp aimed just right and a tidy bookshelf and i thought there is no reason why i have to put up with drifts of dog hair on the floor and stacks of papers that need to be filed all around my computer that i have to shove aside guiltily worrying that i might forget to pay that bill there so i can take some quick notes which i ll immediately lose no more no more i will take time to tidy i will have my desk set up so i can find things i will i m getting there happily more writing is getting done and happily my house is cleaner except i have no bowls again but that s okay i ll take care of it tomorrow before i start to write easy peasy posted by kami at 12 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels business cleaning work space workspace writing writing tricks thursday january 07 2016 transitioning into full time writing pt 1 sort of i m waiting for the ferry at tsawwassen on my way to victoria on vancouver island bc i m feeling the vancouver going on coming from east of vancouver wa not going to vancouver bc but to vancouver island it s weirdly like i m not actually going anywhere even though i m no longer in the same country as i was when i started my journey this morning abandoning a perfectly good day job and writing full time feels like that too i m not on anyone s payroll anymore yet i m doing most of the things i ve always done it s been six days and i still have the same to do list as before i have a series to finish an outline to finish emails to go through etc just a couple of things got added on and those derailed any sense of actually having nine more hours a day to work first off my son got married yay that translated to quite a few hours on facebook coordinating with everyone also that made january 6 and today january 7 completely disappear from the writing schedule i might sneak in a few paragraphs tonight after we ve settled into our new environment but making serious progress is not going to happen so of the almost the day is not done yet six days i ve had since my last day of work on january 1 i ve had four actual work days one of those was spent cleaning one i spent catching up with email and communicating with writers convention organizers as well as doing some business stuff what kind of business stuff writers contemplating full time writing for reals might want to know i had to finalize health insurance stuff we actually started the process in december with a landing date of january 1 for our insurance to begin well that worked out but after they approve you in washington they want proof including former tax returns so about the time we thought we were all set we had more to do i had to start a new fresh action list and prioritize it i had to clean up a backlog of paperwork and file a large to be filed pile that i d allow to build up for too long because i felt like i never had time to work on it found bills paid bills i had to update my freshly written action list and reprioritize it as i discovered notes buried in the to be filed pile i had to go through my business email file to make sure i hadn t promised anyone any stories as soon as i retired and i had to update my freshly written action list again and reprioritize it as i added stuff i found from my emails that ate as you can imagine a huge amount of time i m still sifting through emails though most of them are older now an immediate pitfall i found with being home all day was that now that i could be on facebook and check my email all day long i did in lieu of writing i would never do that you might think i d have my designated time during which i d be online and the rest of the time i d be putting sell able words on the page i thought so too the temptation isn t to socialize but to hunt down business and networking opportunities danger danger when i get back from vacation i ll have designated online hours for real there s no other way to manage it with facebook sending little notifications all the time it s almost impossible not to check in for just a minute i have to be able to tolerate those missed opportunities the ones i d been missing all along because i was at a day job and get the real job of writing done which is writing so this is day six i ll keep reporting on this process as i sink deeper into writerly despair joy whichever comes first both at the same time i m sure posted by kami at 2 20 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels writing monday december 28 2015 back to work after the holidays it s time to get back to work this is the first year in a long long time when i didn t work through the holidays i did a few business related things but for the most part i played and watched the snow fall i think i needed the mental break i feel more focused now i ll need focus i have a lot of projects ahead of me mostly creative projects but there s always something to do around the farm we re sort of expecting baby goats in february how many i couldn t tell you twins again is more than one doe pregnant i asked but they re not talking they just demand more hay anyway they need the barn divided so that the new babies don t have to contend with big goats that are not their mothers and so the big goats don t have to be banished into what will no doubt be a huge storm the day they re born because as we all know goats pick the day they deliver and it will be a nasty nasty day ginger the first doe to deliver our very first kids was nice to me the weather was fine and good relatively warm and mostly sunny i doubt that maryanne will do the same for us assuming that she freshened this will be her first time so we ll keep a close watch over her i have two big fencing projects a fix the coop project gardening stuff and normal animal maintenance chores on top of that i m already sensing that there aren t enough hours in the day and that s with the knowledge that i ll soon no longer have 40 hours of each week dedicated to a normal day job i m glad i got a holiday before everything ramped up i hope you all had a wonderful holiday too and that you re safe well fed and warm best wishes k posted by kami at 4 39 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels holidays work thursday december 24 2015 new computer new life it s amazing how much a new computer gets in the way of things a big one for this blog was that i was auto magically signed in all the time so i d forgotten not only my password but which email i d used to set up the account important because i d somehow cross connected my google with my dh s account and apparently there s no power in the universe that can untangle them this morning i finally decided to take a chance finally i ve properly returned to this blog just in time to start posting about retirement from my day job to become a full time writer although i spent a number of years writing full time there were a lot of differences between then and now for one thing i had small children and less writing experience another huge difference was the publishing process short fiction was a vehicle for promoting myself so that i could potentially attract the attention of a book publisher when i did submit book length projects for publication it usually took months sometimes well over a year to hear back i had some personalized rejections which bolstered my confidence in the process but in a five year period i believe i sent in my manuscript a grand total of three times short stories were a whole nother beastie i submitted quite a few stories and managed to kill a couple of magazines we writers are a weird bunch in case you ve forgotten when a magazine accepts a story and then folds shortly afterward we accept blame for that i took classes read quite a bit became active in a writer s group and then went back to work now being a full time writer is a completely different thing not only do i have more experience more connections and not only have my kids moved out and onward with their lives in separate households but self publishing is now a viable option with self publishing comes a whole new set of responsibilities and costs i won t get into that lots of others have written about the self publishing process as well as hybrid publishing what becoming in four more working days after today s shift a full time writer means now is that i ll have time to finish the series of books that i ve not only written but published it means i ll have time to work on short stories and submitting them to paying markets again it means i ll be putting a lot of hours into a semi secret project for a publisher to be revealed later it means my life is about to change in huge ways that i can t predict i m scared and excited and i m hitting the ground running my office is cleaned up and my dh and i are going to set up a schedule that includes weekly business meetings he s been freelancing full time for a while now he ll not only support me but guide me i ll need a lot of guidance i must be successful at this no choice it ll be a steep learning curve but those that have gone ahead will show me the way i ve a got new life to go with my new computer happy holidays and good luck to us all in the new year posted by kami at 7 18 am 2 comments email this 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