Saturday dawned cloudy, but the sun soon broke through. Then the clouds came again, dark clouds. Then, a few minutes later, the sun once again came out. This pattern continued for several hours, with it being cloudy more than sunny.

And windy. I did my usual Saturday morning paperwork, followed by some unusual disaccumulation tasks. That brought me to around 11:30 a.m. What to do next? It was about 55°, and the wind growing stronger. It wasn’t exactly the day for yardwork, but that’s what I’d planned on doing.  But at least it was dry. I had my choice of tasks: remove recent deadfall from our woodlot, or tend to the blackberry bushes across the street. Most years I’m slow getting to the blackberry bushes and, as a result, they bloom out without my having done the tasks to maximize their yield.

So I had three choices: the woodlot, the blackberries, or stay inside out of the wind, like any sensible person would. I decided to work on the blackberries. The work to be done was cutting out competing plants and removing some deadfall that may have broken down some of the blackberries. I started with the cutting.

Since I hadn’t done this for a couple of years there was a lot to do. Lots of bending and reaching, working around thorns to get to the plants that needed removal. It wasn’t strenuous work, but it was tiring. I worked around the blackberry branches, causing me to have to work slowly and be cautious. Still, I managed to get the worst of the competing plants cut away. That took all the time I had for yardwork, and I headed inside.

It wasn’t, perhaps, a major advance in getting through the to-do list, but it sure felt good. Especially because today, Sunday, it turned cold—just 32 degrees for the high. The next two days will be colder with winter weather possible or probable. That means on Wednesday, all the areas where I cleared on Saturday would be wet and not very nice to get to. Had I not done the work on Saturday, who knows when conditions would be right to do it.

That’s not an earth-shattering success. Sometimes, however, you have to understand the scattered nature of the tasks on my to-do list. There’s writing, stock market, family finances, taking down Christmas decorations, general cleaning, and a number of other things I could name. Once again, I’m feeling a bit discombobulated. Appointments and travel are just over the horizon. That always makes me unsettled.

So what is this post about? Darned if I know. I’m getting a few things done, but the unsettled and incomplete feeling remains.