No.823: Intentions for the Month of May

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!

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A REVIEW OF LAST MONTH’S INTENTIONS

• schedule standardized testing for May (scheduled for next week)
• plan out the rest of the school year
• wash and put away everyone’s flannel sheets and heavy blankets
• start packing away the kids’ winter clothes (in progress…)
• put broiler chickens out to pasture
• buy 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 garden
• plant onion starts and seed potatoes
• transplant 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