Not enough time

The shorter days are starting to wear on me. I wake up in the morning and it’s still dark. By the time I get to work, the sun is just coming out. When I leave work, I have about 45 minutes before sunset. By the end of next month, it will be completely dark when I get up and go to work and it will be completely dark when I leave for home.

I feel like I don’t have any time to get anything done with this lack of daylight. When the sun goes down, I get tired. Most days, I put on my pajamas when it gets dark. At that point, I feel done. That’s how I feel now; done.

I came straight home the other day and got to work in the garage. I put the smoker together and prepped 16 pen blanks for turning. It was after nine pm when I finished, but I thought it was after ten. The clocks in the garage need updating. It felt good to get some things accomplished, I just wish I had the daylight to get things done every night.

I try to get something done each night, but it’s becoming increasingly annoying doing things in the dark. Tonight, I came home after a haircut and got the smoker out. I fired it up for the first time and ran it for 40 minutes to burn off the oil and gunk from the factory. I also topped off the dust bins and took them to the curb.

I have so many other things that need doing, there just isn’t enough daylight to get them all done. I’m looking forward to the weekend when I can spend some time on my hobbies and doing things that I’ve been meaning to accomplish.