Unota

Ahaha, I've been preoccupied with something lately that might seem a little weird. I've started making a square-foot-by-square-foot map of my families' property, which was mostly just an attempt to familiarize myself with A: the space that I take up,  B: with the cardinal directions from my position and C: the layout of my home, et cetera.  (I am a visual learner, I need to both experience and to draw things out in order to conceptualize them, even if it's something like the state of my home.)

Anyway, as I have been doing this day-to-day lately, I have noticed certain things that I would have more easily missed. It has  also occurred to me that a lot of this space could be better utilized for other things.

As for outside, I have noticed that the quality of soil hasn't been so good in some places, and by mapping it out, I can easily record the state of the land on paper, and the efforts I have made already to correct it.

I have tilled compost into portions of the land that probably have not seen such nourishment in decades, and with this recorded in the form of physical data, I can use this for landscaping next spring. I have also made many repairs, and cleaned many things that probably haven't been cleaned in a few years.

My efforts are probably superficial, and don't matter very much...But doing this has made me realize that I may be much wealthier than previously thought. Not wealthy as in potential profit or money, but wealthy in the potential of what the land beneath my feet can become, wealthy as in finding long-forgotten items that can be given a renewed purpose, and wealthy in the walls around me that can give comfort and feel more like a home if properly maintained.

Haha, this has been my bizarre source of entertainment lately. Recording things on paper might actually be really important.