Planning is something I’ve always enjoyed doing. In the garden, I plan where each variety of each plant is going to go, I plan when I’m going to plant it, and when I’m going to harvest it. In my life, I plan each day down to the minute, I plan lunch and dinner, and I plan my work day. The funny thing about plans is … you’re never quite following it.
This week was planned a while ago. I was going to work Monday, and during my down time I would pull the tomatoes and peppers. The rest of the week I was going to set up the fences and let the sheep out to clear everything. Well… Monday we had to have one of my SIL’s horses euthanized. She fractured her leg a month ago, and they were trying to give it time (along with constant care) to come back together, and try to heal. The X-Rays showed that the break had moved apart, and it was expected that there was an infection in the bone which kept it from healing. I’ve been there when we’ve lost a clients horse, but it hits very differently when it is a horse that I have taken care of a lot, and came to love like she was my own. It was a heartbreaking day, and no one got much done. We did the minimum for the day, and hugged and cried a lot.
Needless to say, I did not get the tomatoes out on Monday.
chucked over the fence (and missed)
Tuesday rolled around, and I got to ride for the first time in a while, which felt really nice. My horse beneath me is a serenity that I don’t feel any other time. I did get the tomatoes and puppers pulled, and the cages stacked in a pile. We have quite a little pile of peppers to deal with, which was an unexpected surprise. I didn’t get the plants to the compost yet, and I still need to mow and prep for garlic, but I did manage to get that ball rolling!
As if I didn’t have enough hats already, I recently started fostering cats and kittens for Oakbrook Cat Rescue. I’ve got a particular set of skills with sub q fluids, tube feeding, and medication handling that was a high needs area for the rescue, so I wanted to fill it. My first fosters came last Saturday, and on Wednesday, 2 of the 3 moved on to a lower needs foster, while I kept the sick one, and took in 3 who needed to learn to eat!
Between that, and dentist appointments, I managed to get some excel sheets filled in. I’m hoping to get the CSA planned in the next couple weeks so that I can fill in the planting schedule and garden layout. Then, maybe I’ll get a little break before the big work starts again!
Thurday I was prepping the big garden to let the sheep on, and I noticed that the carrots I’d planted in April looked really happy. I’d given up on them due to weeds and rocky soil. I dug in and in one of the 3 rows I pulled out a 3 gallon bucket full of HUGE carrots! I’m so excited that I was able to grow them in our soil, and they weren’t too messed up. These went to my MIL to process, but there are still 2+ rows left!
Abundance!!
It’s been a light weekend, mostly filled with work, but my best friends birthday was on Saturday, and we had lunch for her, and then Sunday morning I went over and we had breakfast for her birthday before I had to go be at work. My husband took the kids to the pumpkin patch with his friend and his daughter, and I was thrilled to see how much fun they had, while I pulled posts out of the garden after work.
It’s been a heavy week, both emotionally and working, and I’m glad to hopefully get back to some normalcy in this coming week.
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