Do you ever say, “Looks like a good winter project?” This time of year I always seem to collect those, which isn’t much help to get myself through the work before me. The challenge, however, comes whenever you get to winter and those same projects become spring project or next year projects which at some point become never project. The intention of making it happen is still there, but you get the idea.
I’ve been walking around the farm lately and telling myself a good number times, “Boy, that would be good to get done.” The list so far has cut and transport firewood on hill (been sitting there 2 years), clear brush growing next to shed down the hill, fix Allis Chalmers G sitting in front field, fix Farmall H sitting at end of driveway, build packing shed lean-to, plus about 6 other things I see daily.
The expectation is that I’d feel great when I get the lingering project done, which is true, but I still have to DO IT. Oftentimes, the time I expected it to take isn’t even that great – relief from the burden of thinking about it may be as little as a few hours. My favorite example was filling the holes left in our stucco house from when we had insulation blown in the walls. We “temporarily” put a little foam there to cover the hole which my parents one day spray painted gray to match the stucco. Whenever I had some time, I just needed to putty some stucco into the holes. I thought about this for EIGHT YEARS. Every day I came home and thought, I should get to that. For EIGHT YEARS I ruminated, estimating it would take a whole weekend. One Saturday, I got the gumption to make it happen. Total time – 45 minutes! I totally felt better too.
Maybe this weekend we’ll all get to that list.
In the box:
- Buttercup Squash
- Carnival Sweet Dumpling Squash: I really like this variety. It’s a sweet version of an acorn, which has the texture I like. Check out this roasted recipe: https://heartbeetkitchen.com/roasted-sweet-dumpling-squash-with-brown-butter/
- Salad Mix
- Tomatoes
- Italia Peppers
- Colored Pepper
- 1-2 Hakurai Salad Turnips: White radish-like things. Just peel outside off and eat them with a little salt. You can also slice into a salad (hence the name).
- Green Cabbage
- Kale
- A Red and Sweet Onion
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