May is going to be a busy month – that kind of crazy, happy busy
that will fill all of my at-home moments with seed starting, garden bed
preparations, and end of the month planting. I’ll spring clean the
chicken coop and begin work clearing out the wooded area right next door to
their fenced-in enclosure so we can expand their playground. My best
friend is visiting at the end of the month for our annual greenhouse expedition and she’s tagging along with me to my first ever Fur and Feather
Swap being held in Trenary on May 26th. I’m also in the process
of working my way through a knitted peasant shawl pattern and the lace border
has been giving me fits (I had to start the entire project over again).
My goal is to finish this shawl with my patience and good nature intact and
then knit several more to give as Christmas presents to some of the women in
my family.
I have three months worth of vacation time saved up (the last
time I took an entire week off was when I got married in August 2007) so at the
board meeting in March I proposed that from the beginning of May until the end
of September my five day work week be reduced to four. The motion passed
unanimously.
One extra day off each week may not sound like much, but spread
out over the course of the summer and autumn months, they are invaluable to
this baby homesteader. Those extra 24 hours will allow me to get so much
more accomplished and give me the time to hone new skills (baking bread,
brewing mead, wild crafting, and becoming a MUCH better knitter, are just a few
at the top of my list).
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