It's Spring -- according to baseball and the meteorologists!

The start of baseball spring training and, more important, the start of televised games is going to put a dent in reading frenzy.  That said, I have two books in progress:  Great Expectations and Louise Penney's A Rule Against Murder.  I intend to add Hample's Watching Baseball Smarter to that list.  I started the Hample book two years ago but never finished it. I need to start it over again.

Then there is my crocheting.  I have one Christmas 2013 present to finish plus a washcloth pattern to try and I have all the yarn bought to make the first afghan in my, admittedly ambitious "make an afghan for each of the grand-nieces and grand-nephews," plan/fantasy.  The pattern I found for the first one (starting with the oldest, Sean) is labelled as advanced and I am intimidated.  To paraphrase the old Chinese proverb:  The longest afghan begins with a single stitch.

The trick to staying productive in my old age is to have projects in the works that take into account my variable physical abilities. 

1.  On "Gee, I feel good days" I do my regular housekeeping chores and am cleaning out the computer/craft room so I (or someone I can con into it) pulls up the remaining carpeting and linoleum.
2. On ambulatory but not energetic days:  I do regular household chores and maybe cook something special.
3. On "sitting on a heating pad" days:  crochet and reading and eating tv dinners and writing my blog.  I gotta do my taxes soon, too.
4. On really crappy days, which are becoming far fewer, I take heavy duty meds and sleep or just watch TV.  TGFB:  Thank God for baseball!
5. On energetic but not real mobile days, perhaps a bit of 1 - 3.

So, even though we are expecting a rain, sleet, ice and snow -magedon tonight, I have my Spring organized.