Well, I get home from work a little after 5PM. By that time, I’m pretty much mentally drained, after doing software support all day.
But that can’t slow me down, and if I elect to watch a movie with the boys, play outside with the boys, or anything other than “suit up”, setup and turn on the flood lights and get to work on one of the bazillion (ok, so it’s more like 150) projects I Need to get done, I fall behind by another day. And with the short days of winter, ice storms, freezing rain and snow, I get further behind.
By the time spring hits, I’m already “sprung”! -
I have to prepare for a raised garden bed class (this means do a trial run, designate an area to do the class, study, type up and print materials for people, study some more, etc,.), setup newer housing for chickens so I can clean out the winter housing, order chicks, build chicken tractors for the broilers I will raise, make new housing and a run for the turkeys we are breeding, and another one for the turkeys we will sell. I need to get ready for bee feeding at the end of February, and prepare more bee hives and “supers” for the bees to fill with honey. I have to order more cassettes for the comb “supers” I want to put on a couple of hives just so I can sell honeycomb.
Wait, there’s more!
I have to start mucking out goat stalls NOW and put that in the compost so I have lot’s of compost for our garden bed class, and I have to go get composted manure from my neighbor (he feeds his cattle in the same area, so there is always an abundance). We have to plan the garden plots, I Have to buy and plant pasture seed in an area that we want the goats to graze in, and get clover and wildflowers for the bees.
Well, there’s a whole lot more, but I don’t have time to write it all down AGAIN!
–PAT