Unemployed in the Country

As most of you know, and much to Jon's dismay the floods of 2013 have forced me to join the ranks of the unemployed.  I have been traveling to beautiful Estes Park 3-4 times a month to work for nearly three years.  Since the route to my work was basically destroyed, I have found myself with plenty of time on my hands.  Okay Estes Park is one of my favorite places on earth and I adore the folks I work with but not working is so, sooo SWEET!

For the past 6 weeks I have found more than enough projects to fill my time, in fact my to-do list is growing rather than becoming smaller for some reason.  One of the first things I wanted to do was reinvent the blog.  We just have too many ridiculous and hilarious things that happen to us out here on our Cook No Kill Mini Farm, to not share them with family and friends and even strangers.  You, yes you may be the subject of the blog, just as before!  Yep, I just can't wait to talk about ya! Oh yeah and Follow Me if you don't already, leave your comments, share your thoughts so can all read them!

So anyway I can now cross the blog off my list, and for a compulsive list maker such as myself it is a glorious moment.  Okay and can I just say that when you chose to use the notes app on your IPhone you are denied crossing items off the list, which is the most satisfying part of making the list in the first place! What kind of things have been on the list for the past 4 or so weeks?   (Secretly and just between us I add a bunch of items to my list and then cross them off so Jon will see it.  I add things to the list like, take a shower, feed the dog, get the mail)   Here is my list of actual projects minus copious amounts of bogus items
Can everything edible on the mini farm


By the way did you know it takes 40 pounds
of tomatoes to make 8 pints of salsa.  40
POUNDS!

Clean every cupboard in the houseMake various photo book gifts
Enter photo essay contestStain windows
Shampoo all carpets
Apply for doctoral program
Learn how to use photo shop software
Make several more batches of goat milk soap

Just kidding about the doctoral program, had to make sure you were reading.  Okay so anyway I have managed to do most of the items on the list.  I am absolutely exhausted and thinking I might need to go back to work just to get some rest.    It doesn't help when me husband, God bless his heart comes home from work and one of the first questions out of his mouth is "What did you do today?".  The first few weeks when I wasn't working when he asked me that question, I told him the truth.  I told him things like, I watched leaves fall from the cottonwood trees through the front screen door or I walked two miles with a quiet mind the entire time or I drove 9 miles out to the middle of nowhere to find free flowers to dry.   Okay when I told him things like that his eyes rolled so far back in his head that I had bad zombie dreams for a week. 

What he REALLY means when he asks that question, and lets be honest just like most men I know is...."Hi honey, how much money did you make today"?  So now when my wonderful spouse of over 30 years comes home from work, takes his coat off and pets the dog then asks, "What did you do today"?  I simply say.....zero.