Balance

Sometimes my days seem weighted one way or the other, sometimes favourably and at other moments unfavourably; It's just life I guess. On other occasions though my days are more balanced and that's what I'd call today.

Faith and her mum spent the morning out together doing mother and daughter stuff visiting a couple of plant nurseries, craft shops and having lunch together. It's good for them to have that time and it allowed me to grab my camera and seek out some macro shots by myself. I was out for a couple hours and got a couple of reasonable shots but nothing I'd call great.

There was a fairly strong breeze today and taking macro shots when the subject is moving doesn't go too well for me so...Barbed wire is about all I'm willing to show just yet although I took a few hundred shots and hope something else presents itself that looks half decent.

After that I came home and started work on my workshop area in this new house we've moved into.

I wrote a post a little while ago about some storage racks I'd bought which you can see

. I already have one of these racks at my other house but with the move here I wanted to add to it and purchased two more. I can be a little ocd with my workshop area and am focused on everything being in its place and so can never have enough organisation! So, I'll bring the other one over and add it to these two and have loads of storage racks.

I've had to clear out this section of the workshop which is what I did today; I had to take a couple of loads of stuff back to the other house, the one I moved out of which is being used as a storage area, then clean the workshop area, sweep and spray down with the hose then spray with long-lasting spider poison. Once dry I began to construct the racks.

It was right about then that Faith came home and proceeded to get angry at me for doing all that stuff by myself - It's not that she loves doing that sort of work, but moving all that gear myself...Well, it would have been easier if she was there helping and she's worried about me hurting my back. I managed though and pretty soon she calmed down and got stuck in helping me with the racks.

We got done in the late afternoon and I'm pretty happy with the results, although am pretty sore from all the bending and lifting.

The racks span about 4 metres of wall-space and will accommodate four big tubs per shelf so a total of twenty four tubs in all. I use the lidded ones so the contents stay dust-free. I'll add that third rack and have thirty six storage tubs to keep everything organised!

So,nfree time wandering about taking photos and six hours of moving, cleaning and building...It's not that balanced yet right?

That's cool though as we're off to the beach later after dinner. We're going to take a walk and watch the sunset together which will be around 2030 (8:30pm) tonight; I'll take my camera and see if I catch a photo or two. Beach walks like this always make me feel relaxed and Faith and I feel closer. We often walk in silence but tonight we're chatting about stuff, plans for the new year. It'll be nice.

I think that's a fairly balanced day right? Free time and photos, a load of work and a nice walk on the beach and a sunset viewing...Seems balanced to me.

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