Energy Sapping

National Blog Posting Month – January 2013 – Energy

Prompt – Which daily tasks take up the most of your energy?

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Where does most of my energy go on a given day? Can I narrow it down to just one thing?

The daily chores just sap my energy, especially in the winter time. They’re endless: Water and Feed the chickens morning and night. Take care of the cats. Make lunch. The dishes. Move snow. Stoke fire. Bring in firewood. Feed the boy. Feed myself. It takes maybe an hour to two hours every day just to stay on top of these things, and at the end of a long work day, it’s not what I want to do.

In the summer it’s not as bad. The chickens are able to forage and their water doesn’t freeze, so I can deal with them once a day. We don’t have a fire, so I needn’t worry about that. And with all the extra daylight, I don’t have to do any of these things immediately upon entering the house every day after work.

So maybe it’s partly the chores and maybe it’s partly the lack of daylight. I sleep when it’s dark. When I was in the high Arctic with 24 hours of sunlight, I was full of energy. Winter time down south – I got nothing.

All right. Another month or so and daylight will be getting reasonable, even if it still is cold. That’s ok. I can handle it. Right?