Lent-season projects, anyone?

It is the time of year where many people I know are giving up things or trying new things.
I'm not particularly religious but I do love the idea of a season dedicated to making an effort.
Instead of giving up something, I like to start new projects in Lent. In the past I've changed my diet, made an effort to exercise, etc. This year, as I try to expand my garden, I'm making an effort to document everything I do in a garden journal, a real weak point in my urban farming efforts.

Anyone else taking on Lent projects? My sister is giving up processed foods, and my mother still hasn't decided.... she usually gives up chocolate, but she never really went back to eating sweets after Lent last year!

I didn't really know what lent was -- other than being tied to Easter somehow, but I just read the intro at Wikipedia to catch up. If anyone else is as out of it as I am, you might find the first bit of this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

Tereza Okava wrote:It is the time of year where many people I know are giving up things or trying new things.

I'm afraid I'm settling for, "Get projects that are stalled moving and ideally completed!"

Project 1. I bought black corduroy material several years ago to replace black pants that had died of natural causes. I finally broke the project down into manageable steps, and stopped kicking myself for "procrastinating" when the real issue was I was still in the "dredge my memory banks for *how* I altered my old pattern to make my red pants 30 years ago." Dredging over that time frame, isn't fast in my case!

I ended up redrawing the pants front entirely. It's been years since I've installed a fly zipper, and I only had to unpick it once - major win! Today's goal is to get the inside leg seams sewn (I just pinned them). I have other high priority tasks, so setting *small* sewing goals has been key!

Project 2. Improve the fencing around The Octopus' Garden to at least keep the deer out. Last week I got one area reinforced. As usual, deciding *how* to accomplish the task with what I have to work with is a chunk of the problem. I think today's goal will be to take inventory of my 5' rebar stash. Rebar is great for temporary fence projects because I can usually get it in *and* out independently.

Project 3. Improve the fencing by the rock wall to keep the deer out of that garden. This one's tough because I really need to use the rock drill. The rock drill doesn't quite out-mass me, but it's a larger percentage than I'd like. This may be a "drill 1 hold a day" goal, and the good news is that I can probably do it with no more than 8 holes, and the first 4 are the key ones.

To me, any time of year is a good time to look at what's bugging me - consciously or unconsciously - and set some goals to figure out some plans, and then execute them. Even if you have to set a goal of one seam sewn per day, if you can set a goal and actually accomplish it, I think that gives me that little bit of momentum that helps drag me further down the path.

I have a lot of projects that I want to do. I was waiting for today to pass.

I wanted a carrot cake for my birthday so I have decided instead to make carrot cake cookies.

I have a recipe for firehouse rolls that looks so good that will be my next project.

I also have been working on a health project.

Is everyone ready for daylight savings time?

Though my husband and I are Christians we don't usually do Lent, but this year we decided to.  He gave up fried foods.  I gave up vulgar language, which is like a project because its kind of hard haha.  I feel like an 11 y/o with such limits.  Some of the time its fine, but some of the time I feel like its hard to express myself when I'm annoyed/passionate/angry haha.  But I do want to be more mindful in general so when I do choose "bad" words they mean something and aren't just filler words, being as I'm not a sailor haha, so I'm "detoxing" and when Lent is over I can add a bit back in.