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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Thanks, Morel! Its good to look back over the year and see how God has blessed us...he certainly has blessed YOU lately! 
Today is a frosty, sunny, snowy beautiful day on the rent-a-farm! We all slept through the midnight marker of New Year's....aren't we the party animals?
I never make any resolutions, as I'm pretty resolved on a daily basis anyway! Resolutions = long term goals in my vernacular.
Today I clean my room and my office really well, to start out the New Year right. We will have a family meeting and discuss all our hopes and dreams for the new year....I like doing this so I can get a handle on what the kids' thoughts are for the future, near and far. Also so they can give any input or ideas about my future plans.
Eli is pretty set in his mind about his goals but is having some short term goal issues when it comes to staying focused on exercise and wt. loss to get into the service. When he went to be processed in Nov. he had lost too much wt. in his neck and not enough in his waste! I know, its freaky, but they don't really go on wt. anymore....its all measurements and ratios. The holidays are rough on a boy who wants to stay fit....all that good food and down time!
Joel is out in WY....just being Joel. The poor fellow has grandiose expectations and delusions and then suffers mild depression and frustration when nothing ever turns out the way he plans. I like to blame it on the Asperger's! 
Most folks would have learned, by the age of 22, to have more reality-based expectations.....or maybe that was just me...I think I was born old. :/
Jon? Well that's a grab bag for the future, to be sure! It will be anyone's guess how that boy makes it through this life...but I bet it won't be boring!
Me? Well, you know what I want to do...I talk about it all the time. Short term? Make this place pay and have fun doing it by adding some honeybees, geese, a few sheep and maybe a feeder pig or two for a short time. Selling produce and a few hand-crafted items and just see how much clear profit I can make on one little place.
Long term? That all gets tied into Eli's future. When(I won't say if~I like to stay positive) he gets out of school and begins his vet practice, I would like to help him with this. He plans to live a SS lifestyle on a little bigger scale than we have been able to thus far and he wants me to be close to help him do this and to help him raise his kids. He would like to keep his brothers close and help them if they want to, also...it will remain to be seen if they have enough wisdom by that time to see that SS is the only way to live!
Sorry for rambling on about family issues, but I always get reflective during the new year's. I always feel this is a good time to re-evaluate goals and get them set in your family's mind.
Have a good new year, folks! I hope we have some exciting participation on this forum, with a lot of pics of new gardens, new livestock projects, new energy alternatives and just plain ol' interesting, thought-provoking dialogue!
Today is a frosty, sunny, snowy beautiful day on the rent-a-farm! We all slept through the midnight marker of New Year's....aren't we the party animals?
I never make any resolutions, as I'm pretty resolved on a daily basis anyway!
Resolutions = long term goals in my vernacular.Today I clean my room and my office really well, to start out the New Year right. We will have a family meeting and discuss all our hopes and dreams for the new year....I like doing this so I can get a handle on what the kids' thoughts are for the future, near and far. Also so they can give any input or ideas about my future plans.
Eli is pretty set in his mind about his goals but is having some short term goal issues when it comes to staying focused on exercise and wt. loss to get into the service. When he went to be processed in Nov. he had lost too much wt. in his neck and not enough in his waste! I know, its freaky, but they don't really go on wt. anymore....its all measurements and ratios. The holidays are rough on a boy who wants to stay fit....all that good food and down time!
Joel is out in WY....just being Joel. The poor fellow has grandiose expectations and delusions and then suffers mild depression and frustration when nothing ever turns out the way he plans. I like to blame it on the Asperger's!
Most folks would have learned, by the age of 22, to have more reality-based expectations.....or maybe that was just me...I think I was born old. :/Jon? Well that's a grab bag for the future, to be sure!
It will be anyone's guess how that boy makes it through this life...but I bet it won't be boring! Me? Well, you know what I want to do...I talk about it all the time. Short term? Make this place pay and have fun doing it by adding some honeybees, geese, a few sheep and maybe a feeder pig or two for a short time. Selling produce and a few hand-crafted items and just see how much clear profit I can make on one little place.
Long term? That all gets tied into Eli's future. When(I won't say if~I like to stay positive) he gets out of school and begins his vet practice, I would like to help him with this. He plans to live a SS lifestyle on a little bigger scale than we have been able to thus far and he wants me to be close to help him do this and to help him raise his kids. He would like to keep his brothers close and help them if they want to, also...it will remain to be seen if they have enough wisdom by that time to see that SS is the only way to live!
Sorry for rambling on about family issues, but I always get reflective during the new year's. I always feel this is a good time to re-evaluate goals and get them set in your family's mind.
Have a good new year, folks! I hope we have some exciting participation on this forum, with a lot of pics of new gardens, new livestock projects, new energy alternatives and just plain ol' interesting, thought-provoking dialogue!
Isn't it funny how that is? 
