I'm feeling incredibly overwhelmed on this fine, sunny morning. There are problems that I'm frustrated with and find myself unable to address on my own. I certainly can't afford to have them professionally solved either. Right now, the biggest is the squirrels living in my attic. I need to evict them and I want to do so in a humane way, but at the end of the day, I need them gone. They are getting in through a hole in the gutterboard on the third floor. When we had our roof replaced about ten years ago, they never replaced the rotted gutterboard and we didn't know because it's concealed behind the gutters. My Dad and brothers are happy to help me pull the gutter down, patch the hole and put…

We had a pretty decent day. I'm feeling a little burned out. Actually, I'm feeling a lot burned out. I'm having a hard fine writing today because it feels incredibly overwhelming. I'm going to accept that I'm not going to write like I want to today, forgive myself and start over tomorrow. More often than not, I beat myself up for these things because if I don't write, I can't generate revenue to provide for my family. I've learned over time that beating myself up only serves to make things worse for me. Instead, I'm going to try again tomorrow.

In a continued effort to remain positive in an otherwise less than positive situation, I thought I would approach this post a little differently. Rather than focus on what hasn't happened, I'm going to focus on what I hope to see happen. Maybe this is semantics but I feel like it's a more positive take and I'm going to roll with it. There are a couple of things I hope will happen this week. Generally speaking, I'd like to find inexpensive ways to keep my family active, and exploring what Mother Nature has to offer. I'm really pushing for a healthier lifestyle and trying to do that with our current set of limitations, can prove to be tricky but not impossible. My number one hope for this we is that…