Sometimes you have to let the weather just do its thing and you need to get on with something else. The all knowing and occasionally correct weather app says we are in for at least two weeks unpleasantly hot, and occasionally life threatening hot temperatures. Which means working at the farm is not a great option for my mental or physical health. With that in mind I am taking the next few weeks off from the cabin build. As frustrating as it is to take a break while good progress was being made, it is counterproductive to try working out there in the heat. There is not much point in going out and only getting an hour of work done every trip, so I will be mostly working in town for the next few weeks.

It’s probably not a bad thing as I have been largely ignoring the work that needs doing here to allow the farm move to take place. There is an awful lot of sorting, selling, and organizing to be done to be in a position to move from a three bedroom Victorian house in town to a one bedroom cabin in the woods. As much as I have downsized in the last few years there is a lot more to go. It also wouldn’t hurt to stop spending on renovations for a while and sell some stuff to restock the bank account a bit.

The tricky part is convincing myself that the in town work is just as necessary as the cabin work. I also need to convince my overthinking brain that I am achieving important goals to allow me to move by staying in town and getting stuff done. Because my anxiety loves to beat me up when I am not at the farm sweating, even if I am in town sweating. I am trying to convince myself that it doesn’t matter how ready the cabin is if I haven’t gotten everything in town sorted to a point that lets me move. It’s proving quite difficult to get my brain to believe that. The only work around that buys me respite is selling some stuff which makes me feel like I am at least able to buy materials for the renovation. But I suspect that’s a poor substitute for actually being able to believe both the cabin reno and the town downsizing are equal and necessary parts of the plan.