The exercise:
Write about: ghosts.
Happy Halloween! The boys got Minecraft costumes this year, but if you think they stood still long enough to get their pictures taken then I strongly suspect you are unaware of the direct link between sugar and children's inability to stop moving.
The exercise:
A whole day earlier than the last possible day of the month to do it, let us return to Out of the Woods.
Managed to get my course assignment completed and submitted this evening, after spending a couple hours on it yesterday morning and three more this afternoon. I went into the office to do it, for ease of concentration and lack of child-sized distractions.
Looking forward to not being in the middle of elections the next time I have a major assignment coming due.
The exercise:
Write about something that is: impending.
Course assignment due Sunday night. I am very much in the struggling to get my crap together stage.
The exercise:
Write about: a wish.
If I'd thought to make myself a wish for a happy birthday today then I could say that it came true. But I did not, so I will just say that it was a pretty danged good day, especially considering it fell on a Wednesday this year.
It was my first birthday working at the RDOS and folks were extremely kind and made me feel very special.
The exercise:
Write four lines of prose which have something to do with: astronomy.
The exercise:
Following up on last week's Two Haiku Tuesday, this week I request that you write a couple of haiku about: angels.
The exercise:
Write about: a harvest.
Drove down to Osoyoos for a slightly delayed Thanksgiving get together on the farm. Before dinner I helped with the pumpkin harvest in the garden, along with the boys and their cousins and Kat's parents.
Though by the end it was down to me, our eldest niece, and Kat's mother. You'd think working in the garden in mid-October in twenty degree weather was somehow problematic to the kids (at least Kat's father was keeping busy in the kitchen preparing the evening's feast - which was also where Kat could be found for most of the afternoon).
The exercise:
Write a four line poem about: results.
Penticton will have a new mayor, and council got significantly younger which, I strongly suspect, will be a good thing overall. The Regional District has two new area directors (one of which I'd say 100% of staff will be happy to hear about), though I'd expected a third. The margin of victory in that one strongly suggests I had no idea what I was talking about.
Monday will see the start of preparation for welcoming a new board of directors to the Regional District, but we've got some time to do that as the inaugural meeting doesn't arrive until November 10th.
The exercise:
Write four lines of prose about: the start of something new.
There are several municipal elections happening tomorrow that I'm deeply interested in seeing the results of. In addition to the five within the RDOS, there's Penticton and Osoyoos for sure, as well as a handful of mayoral and council races around the province.
Looking forward to tomorrow, and not just because it signals the end of a whole pile of work for myself.
The exercise:
Write about: a vote.
Managed to get to the last advance poll to cast my vote for Penticton mayor and council this evening. Looking forward to seeing the results Saturday night.
The exercise:
Write two haiku about: demons.
An episode of Loki opened with this song and it is still stuck in my head.
The exercise:
Write about: a giant.
Holiday Monday for me and the boys but Kat had a full work day, so this afternoon I took Max and Miles to check out Giant's Head Park in Summerland.
It's a spot we've been wanting to hike for a long time and we'll definitely be coming back with Kat. We didn't make it to the top, and the wind certainly made things interesting at points, but the views we did see were spectacular and there are multiple routes to explore.
The exercise:
Write about: gratitude.
Had a small Thanksgiving celebration here today. The main event will be next weekend in Osoyoos, as Kat's parents are still busy picking apples this weekend with the weather this year delaying the final harvest.
The exercise:
Write two haiku about: being prepared.
Like, hopefully, we are prepared for advance voting day tomorrow. I'm reasonably certain we are.
The exercise:
Write about: therapy.
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen is one hell of a book.
