- Wake up at five thirty and lay around having coffee in bed until six or so.
- Because you have no alarm clock but do have roosters
- Lay in bed for a few minutes and enjoy the morning coffee without television news, staring out the window as the sun comes into the upper branches, and listen to the animals as they wake up to start their day.
- Get up and eat breakfast (enough to get you to eleven thirty).
- We don't worry about the calories, there will not be enough to cover the number burned at work.
- This is when you plan the day. (The plan that will eventually fail.)
- Feed all of the animals.
- Walk through the Garden weeding, and stomping on anything that looks wrong.
- Allowing enough time to love each and every plant.
- Allow enough time to recognize how absolutely lovely it is to work in the dirt at eight in the morning.
- Pick anything that looks ripe and eat some of it right then and there.
- Weed as many garden rows as possible until about ten o'clock.
- You will never get done with the job of weeding.
- Begin the first list project.
- We keep un-prioritized lists of thing we want to get done. Each thing is a part of the bigger picture. Some things are simply trying to keep things from back-sliding, such as tractor weeding large areas. Others are part of some future goal, like getting parts for a new fence or greenhouse, or building a fence or greenhouse.
- Finish the first list project at about eleven-thirty and then it is lunch time.
- Have a nice lunch, eat something grown and picked today.
- Do some part of the second list project. (Yesterday it was ripping out most of the weeds along the front fence of the Farm using the Tractor while Heide Hay cut berries off of the fence.
- She ate a whole lot of fresh blackberries as she went along.
- Today it was to begin cleaning up all of the debris piles I made yesterday ripping out the weeds all along the front fence of the Farm.
- Finish this list item before three, because it is going to get radically hotter at three and only a fool is out under the sun after that.
- Do something off of the household maintenance list: groceries, car maintenance, etc . . .).
- Drinks on the Veranda at about five.
- At about six have supper.
- As the sun finally begins to calm down, do something for our selves or for the animals.
- Yesterday we washed all of the dogs.
- Today we set up a new pool for our own use in the late Summer.
- At eight, begin bathing for bed.
- At eight thirty go to bed happy to have had such a lovely day, doing what we want to do, where we want to do it.
If you do the entire day with Zen-like attitude, knowing that nothing is ever started or finished, knowing that nothing you do will make any future difference (so you might as well be happy right now); knowing that there are a great many people in the world who would trade their entire lives for the chance to do what we are doing every day (and are too afraid to let go of the safety they think they have in their jobs or retirement accounts), and being grateful for all of it; then you have done something right, if not well, if not to completion, and done no wrong.
A typical day at the Farm is not typical in a manner that most people will understand. Each day brings now challenges, new things to do, new risks and new rewards. A typical day is distinctly a-typical in the conventional sense of the word. But this is what we try to do every day. We keep the vision of the future in front of us, love the moment we are living right now, and accept whatever come of it gladly. Tomorrow will take care of itself, just as it has always done.
Few people get to say things like this, most never even try because they are too busy believing some lie that some other person has told them. Almost all are putting off the momentary happiness of the right now for the long termed happiness of the some day, when there will be time to be happy.
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