This week has just been nuts. Actually the past 2 weeks since coming back from Madison has been nuts. I cannot stop thinking about work. It's not negative, I'm not worried about if I'm doing anything right. But there is just so much happening and I can't seem to focus on just one thing for a little bit. Planning an increase in meat production, a purchase of a new farm, planning the infrastructure of an another farm, understanding the reorganization of Thanksgiving Farm, planning a dairy, winter projects, managing 4 people, breeding cows, breeding sheep, breeding pigs, raising chicks. My brain might explode. And I just can't stop thinking about any of it! Just now I had to stop myself from researching nutrient components of milk in different breeds of cow. I get home from work at 6:30 or 7:00, shower, then jump back into work. It's weird having to force myself to stop.
So, there's a lot going on in my little farmer life. And I feel great. I feel confident. I'm learning so much. I was just thinking tonight how this week I just experienced experience. That one day when I'm and old farmer, I can tell the young, spry farmer my experience of breeding a cow, or treating chicks for an unknown illness (and how it worked!) Another weird thing - for the first time since being here I could see myself being here for a long time. I had the 5 year plan in my head. But today I see myself here for a longer time - 10, 15, 20 years. I thought that maybe I'd go back to my old farm in a different position and when I was ready. Who knows, I could. And it's scary to think about the future in those years. But it feels good.
PS: They have started the work on my new house!! YAY!!!
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