Homestead Life

It's been a busy few weeks around NowHere.  We find ourselves in the crunch of the dreaded "tax time" and this being the first year we file taxes as a business, it has been a challenge.  We are pushing through and will get 'er done, but it is adding a bit more to the must-get-done priority list.

the best taxes & accounting stress memes

The garden is keeping Cletus quite busy.  When he retired, a friend whose husband had retired from the same company mentioned to me, "we are wondering how in the world he ever had time to work!".  Even so, every day we are grateful for the retirement status and the fact that he is now busy doing what he loves and following his passion for homesteading.  It's a lot better than being the guy in the chair.

There is no self-sustaining magic to do it; it is all hard work!

When he is not busy in the garden, he is busy with quail; making sure the quail housing is sufficient for our numbers, the quail housing is clean, the quail watering system is flowing, the feed is staying topped up, the feed inventory is not getting low.....well, you get the idea!

Last week we were celebrating the completion of our construction phase for the quail.

Over the weekend we did some quail math and realized we need one more condo and two more brooders.  Oops.  I guess we're back in hardware mode!

It's funny.  Several years ago before we moved here, my life was quiet.  I had not learned to weave, we were not doing a business, my community had shrunk suddenly and dramatically, and we did not live at the beach.  I privately lamented feeling as though I had no purpose and no goals.  It was an in-between season for me; my personal "wood between the worlds".  It was a time to rest and recover from a lot of hard stuff I had been going through. 

Now?  Well, now there is always something to do.  

I weave, 

I work on the business, 

I even spend time at "our" coffee shop

and on a rare day, we go to the beach and sit by the water.  


Life is full.  

We treasure this season!

 

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