Whistle while you work

It has been a weird week so far. Ok it is only Tuesday, but I am thinking of the last several days.
I have been hard on myself because I seem to have lacked motivation.  Yet when I think about it, several things have been achieved that I have been wanting to see done for a long time.
I think I mentioned getting a whole pile of books (boxes and boxes).  I had taken them because I thought what we cannot use I will donate to bookfest.  Yest when I rang them, they said they were no longer taking books.  So here I was tuck with crates of them.
But good did come of it. (It is a little experiment of mine to find good in seemingly bad.  It has worked without fail.  The good in this instance was getting some really good books and one in particular that is out of print.)  
Another good thing has just come to light.  I got to talking to someone who gets bargins at our pantry.  He was the founder and owner of a second hand book shop in our area we used to visit called “The Book Hunter.”  He has retired now but belongs to a church that sells books and provides a mobile library.  He has offered to take them off my hands.
Last night Merril and I went through the crates again seeing if there was anything we wanted.  Merril grabbed a book that is right up the alley of what she needs to do in her studies.
All the books (8 crates) are now in the car to be picked up tomorrow from our pantry.  To me that is great.
I also worked on an area of the yard that was so overgrown it was ridiculous.  I removed all, added heaps of rocks, decided what needs selling or to go to the dump and then rearranged what remained.  I also did some major weeding.
We also had a guy visit us from an arborist company.  They will be sending a quote for getting rid of out last huge tree.  Neither Merril and I want to see it go, but we have both determined the stress during storms is not worth it.  It could fall a number of ways and take out houses and even lives.
I have achieved a number of other things.  So I have decided I am being too hard on myself.  There have been a number of good things done.