Mike has been trying to teach me that lesson for years.
Often times though, my pathetic excuse of an attention span serves me well.
I have avoided many “near misses” involving brilliant ideas I never acted upon.
The Emu Farm with my friend Robin back in the 80’s comes to mind.
(Although I still think we could have made a go of it, back me up here Robin!)
I was going to move to California with Suzie (Homemaker) back then too.
But that whole waiting on the house to get sold business was a real turn off.
It would have taken months…no patience for that!
Which brings me to this year’s Christmas card.
I had grandiose ideas.
Not far from our house is an open field.
Parked in the middle of it are two circa 1940’s Ford pickup trucks.
Vines and wild flowers were growing out of the slightly open hoods.
It was classic and (I thought) very “Indiana”.
Procrastination gives my (lack of) attention span a run for its money.
By the time we finally went to snap the photo…lo and behold,
Farmer John had cut the field and pulled the vines right out of the engine blocks!
Totally devastated (for about an hour), I moved on.
I found this “beaut” in the “My Pics” file, thought it kind of cute, downloaded it and sent it off to the photo shop, never having seen it in print.
Jordie was the first one to see this year’s Christmas card.
“Mom…these suck, you can’t send them out” she pleaded.
I took a gander and yes they do suck.
And for a very slight moment, I even considered chucking them and starting over.
But guess what?
They’re done, paid for and I’m over it.
Another shining example of my attention span serving me (and my wallet) well!
Next year I’ll do better.
Maybe the weeds will have grown back by then.
Or better yet…maybe we’ll be living in Hawaii.
Now that would be a great… Eh, forget it...I’m over that too!
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