Well, I managed to find a dramatic way to send off April and enter into May. On Monday, I had an altercation with the stairs…and the stairs won. My left foot took the brunt of the fall and man oh man, I haven’t felt such pain since I gave birth seven years ago. Praise be to God, I didn’t break anything but the bruising looks like Bob Ross painted a “happy little sky” on my foot – a visual masterpiece to commemorate my silliness! Anyway, I’ve been on the RICE (Rest/Ice/Compression/Elevation) protocol and am trying to see this forced break as an unexpected rest period. Still making plans below!
A REVIEW OF LAST MONTH’S INTENTIONS
schedule standardized testing for May(scheduled for next week)plan out the rest of the school yearwash and put away everyone’s flannel sheets and heavy blankets- start packing away the kids’ winter clothes (in progress…)
put broiler chickens out to pasturebuy hen chicks(20 new ladies!)- add woodchips to the chicken/duck run
- muck the chicken coops and duck house (we’ve definitely procrastinated on this one – must complete this weekend!)
amend the garden soil in one part of the gardenplant onion starts and seed potatoestransplant the tomatoes and marigolds- fertilize all of the fruit trees and bushes (running behind on this task too…)
send Max and Ruby to the processor- move our breeder girls, Sally and Millie, onto pasture (scheduled to head out this week)
- see if we can find 3-4 new piglets (we think we might have a lead!)
- order chicken processing supplies (bags, stickers, zip ties, etc.)
keep listing on ebay/Poshmark/Pango and add to the Summer Vacation Farm Sitter Fund(update: we’re at 45% of our goal)start a spring cleaning checklist(more on this in a future post)declutter 15+ items in the kitchen(it took me about five seconds to find 15 things in the junk drawer!)
INTENTIONS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY
- complete standardized testing and wrap up the school year
- do something fun to celebrate the beginning of summer
- buy ferns for the front porch pots
- fertilize all of the fruit trees and bushes
- add woodchips to the chicken/duck run
- muck the chicken coops and duck house
- secure a source for new feeder piglets
- order chicken processing supplies (bags, stickers, zip ties, etc.)
- process the first batch of broilers
- move baby hens to the barnyard
- finish sowing seeds in the garden
- schedule bloodwork
- go through curriculum and sell unneeded books on ebay/Pango
- declutter the photos on my phone
- vacuum out the cars
- bake scones
- work on my junk journal in new, creative ways (maybe paint?)
- finish The Iliad