Hmmm!!! The smell of coffee fills the air and that is just one of the not-so-subtle reminders that it is time to wake up and that there is plenty to do for today!
I get out of bed and wait for the coffee to circulate through my body. Piece of toast and coffee, that has been my breakfast for the past decades. At least I don’t eat it like my mom, standing over the countertop. The day will be filled with plenty of hard work, I am going to sit down and enjoy my coffee.
Today is not that bad actually. I have to go out there and make sure that the garden area has been prepared. I have to stir the soil to make sure that everything has gotten plenty of exposure to oxygen before we begin planting. I am waiting for my shipment to arrive for all of the seeds that I have ordered. We will have tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, strawberries and all of the other berries. I still have to get the apples from the man next door, but my apple trees should be ready next year. Still haven’t decided what I am going to do in the perimeter… pumpkins are great and not expensive but what to do with all of those pumpkins.
This morning I also have to work on the layout for the new site for the chicken coop. I want it to be larger so that the ladies have more room to roam around and I have to see about the ducks that Tony wants, although I would prefer just turkeys or quail…. Hey, there is an idea; maybe if I can convince him of the quail we can avoid the whole duck thing… I just don’t like ducks, they seem slimy!!!
The mini Drexels have to be milked and I have to let that milk set out for the cheese. Also, it’s almost time to make more butter again. Have to find where all my glass jars went. Time to clean out the barn and move that to the compost pile, but the kids can do that when we get done with school.
Once that has been worked with this morning, we have to do school and I have to look at what Damian is missing from the rest of his curriculum, maybe this morning we can focus more on the math so he can finish that objective once and for all. Homeschooling lets him do things at his own pace but his own pace is too slow sometimes. Oh well!!
Then he has to go out there and feed the animals and then he can go try his new fishing pole in the creek. Gabriela on the other hand has to finish that essay she was doing for me. I know she has been distracted with her other projects but that has to be done for the school board.
Then I have to work on dinner, I think I will get some roast out of the freezer and get some herbs from the greenhouse and just throw it all in the crock pot. That way I can work on my articles this evening and submit them way before the deadline this time.
I have to email Victoria back and tell her of course she can come home this weekend and get some blueberries out of the chest freezer so that I can make her some blueberry delight and I think Tony is taking the weekend off so I have to see if he wants something special for dinner or what I can do for him too, maybe if I butter him up he will help me fix that spot on the fence and then I can let the animals roam on that other section.
Oops, thank God for the toaster dinging, coffee cup is done and it is time to get out there. Too much planning and not enough doing…..
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