2026. Weirdly it feels like a made up number. Like what do you mean the year is 2026, that's not a real thing. Admittedly, 2025 felt kind of the same.
In addition to being the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, it's also the International Year of the Woman Farmer as well as Volunteers for Sustainable Development. So, naturally Hot Boy With Farm Animal was the go-to. And this particular Hot Boy is Francesco Soave, in a photoshoot by Johnny Lopera.
Yesterday was a little atypical, relatively speaking. I did the usual stuff, changed the bed to the soothing black and white bedding, generally tidied up, although I already did the lion's share of that earlier in the week, ran the vacuum over the floors... and then finished reading the book I was on because I wanted it done before the new year. You know, nothing exciting.
I also realised, fairly late in the afternoon that I hadn't made my usual year-in-review post... and looking through the blog last year... really there wasn't enough interesting stuff to justify bothering. I made a few crochet scarves plus a cardigan for Ma, I befriended a butterfly, I broke my toe... that was it really. So I didn't bother. There will be a books/media "best of" post sometime in the next week or so though.
The evening was where things weren't The Usual. For the first time since 2021, there was no Fluffy Movie Night. In all honestly, there wasn't even a "movie night" at all. Because I'd grabbed TV shows at the library last weekend without necessarily thinking it all the way through. So I finished the last three episodes of the season I was watching (more on that on the weekend). Which at least felt apt, even if there's a second season I really need to grab soon.
And that finished up around like 10:30... so I tidied things away and just went to bed by about, I dunno, 11 or so. Granted I messed around on my phone until midnight and did hear the fireworks from town, but I basically crashed out before 12:15.
This morning was a very quiet walk, as New Year's Day tends to be. And then the plan for later today is probably putting together the Lucky Bamboo Lego that Fluffy got me for Christmas. And then working out if I can actually get it in one of the cloches that I already own.
