Greetings...........
Well I can tell that I'm in "reclination mode" now... *glances over at the gradually disappearing jug of cold sun tea and bottle of moonshine*
Been a hard paced couple of days since my last posting. I'm noticing my tan has deepened since Monday *L* Just a "farmers tan" though...heh... But it's been quite hot, everything looks like it's melting by three o'clock and I can't start early enough in the day to get done before the wave of thermal extinction hits.
Anywayyyyyssss... Yesterday I pulled a 9.5 hour day. It was full of wild racing horse handling. Those are always..(I won't say exiting, cause that sounds like fun) ermmm adrenaline pumpin' action. But I make it look like it's no big deal, and the owners always look bug eyed and amazed. I do work for peanuts I'll admit, but I couldn't even list all the perks. I mean I learned how to make moonshine for crying out loud. And their thanks are never ending to the point of a triffle embarassing for me now and then...
Today, was day one of their (owners) 2nd vacation this year. They never got to take them before moi entered the equation, and it was a fairly quiet day at the ranch. I did get around to planting their corn seedlings which they'd been letting languish. I hope the come to fruition, they were looking a bit yellowed. If they don't do well, I think I'll plant some for them the old fashioned way by seed...*L* It's the way I grow things. Buying seedlings to me seems silly. It's just not that hard to start from scratch really. With the prices in the shops rising higher and higher, it's almost like planting gold really...
I went on the hunt today for a few hours for the dreaded "Deadly Nightshade" weeds.. They're poisonous to grazing animals. I searched out and snagged 3 feed sacks of it in the paddocks as well as 3 cottonwood plants. These are the bain of horse/cattle folks. You can even be fined if they find the cotton weeds on your property. Anyways, I got to hang out with my little red Kelpie friend Zena all day. She is my bud for sure. I can see a little bit of hurt feelings with the owners when she saddles up to run with me for the day and abandons them. I shall try to get a couple pictures of her posted here. She took a 2 hour nap in the stables today while I made my moonshine and wandered in and out preparing the feeds for the horses and stocked feed bins with oats etc.
Tell the truth now.... I suspect to a myriad of folks this sounds boring as hell...... I'm sure of it. Most would rather be cruising the malls buying vast quantities of plastic crap that won't make it through to the next year.They buy more and more things, each purchase trying in vain to fill that empty hole deep inside themselves. It burns like a never quenchable thirst, alleviated only in the moment of the actual acquisition, only to return in the moment of "buyers remorse" or the next day when they require the next "new and shiny" to fill the void. I haven't spent my whole life doing what I do you know. I've lived in cities. Seen the world and all that. Seen beauty and horror.. Lived in squalor and opulence, and have made the contentious choice to be where I am now.
I like life simple. I like knowing at the end of the day that what I've done work wise means something to myself, as well as knowing it's helped others. Tomorrow morning I'll rise at 5 again, watch the sun rise, spend an hour in meditation (post coffee I assure you *grin*) and ask myself as Ben Franklin used to ask himself "What good shall I do today ?" I hope I can live up to what he'd consider worthy...
*props boots up on the rail of the veranda and watches the sun go down*