Moss,
Real sorry to hear about your troubles.
Horses are a PITA and I swear they can hurt a marriage. My wifey bought a %^&*() horse right before our first child was born. It was SUCH a deal she said.
Bovine Scat. I and the family told her she was making a mistake but she would not listen, she had the bit in her teeth. She was not going to be able to ride much with the first kid on the way and everyone told her she would not have TIME after the child was born. But did she listen? Heck NO! She RODE the horse not more than 3-6 times. :shocked:
We had a house in the city and no land so she work out a deal with stable to care for the horse in exchange for using the horse in their riding school.
$%^&*() stable owner and a farrier conspired to make the horse lame hoping to buy the horse cheap. Wifey spent a dang fortune on the horse until we figured out what was happening. She then moves the horse to a guys farm in some sort of wacky deal were the guy would care for the horse while his kids used the horse. He would buy the horse if it all worked out. Course it because a battle to get the buy to pay up. Not sure if we ever got the money from that $%^&*( horse and it sure made things tense around the house for quite awhile.
The good thing is that it is in the past and she got this horse stuff out of her system.
Owning rural property is likely to overwhelm one with chores. Having critters to take care of makes things that much more busy. My new life mantra is "I was not born to mow grass." Last year I mowed ONCE. Yep, just once. :shocked: Still have some tall weeds that need to be mowed but they will wait until the grass grows again. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
We have a temporary well house I built in 2004. It is 2013 and we still are using that sad, pathetic, ugly, trashy well house. I keep a budget in a spreadsheet and there has been a line item to build a proper well house for years. It is in the 2013 budget but who knows if it will be built.
In my work life, I have to prioritize because with off shoring of jobs, doing more with less is a way of life. Being able to prioritize is critical. I do it at work and I do it at home. Which is more important a family vacation or a better looking well house?
THAT is an easy decision. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Same thing with mowing the grass since we are the only ones that see the yard. We want to put up a fence around our place but that will be years in the future due to time and money. Most likely it will never happen. We want to expand our garden and plant an orchard as well as berry bushes. Last summer we paid to get some trees bull dozed to enlarge the garden but it will be at least a year before I can clean up the trees. I have been trying to work on the mess for weeks but I have been sick and it has been raining so much I thought about building an Ark. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:
The plan for this weekend was to take a 1/2 of vacation on Friday. Did not happen and I ended up working 13 hours. Saturday was to be a beer making day but I saw a class pop up at the local community college that I wanted to take. The class is only two hours over three Saturdays but that is going to affect what chores get down this month and this is a good month for chores if we don't have rain. The class got a higher priority than other chores. Beer is a high priority though. :drink:
I might brew today but it will take all day and with the time change I really don't want to get wore out going into Monday. This Monday will be a very long day which will tire me out until Wednesday.... Just talked myself out of brewing today. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
One of my kids and the wifey wanted chickens.
After two years of hearing how they will take care of the chickens yada yada yada, I built the chicken tank. They do take care of the chickens but it is a PITA and it costs us more to feed them than it does to buy eggs.
When the kid balks at taking care of the chickens I have an easy response, I just mention Chicken and Dumplings, Fried Chicken, etc and the chores get done. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Prioritize.
Family comes first.
The land will be here long after we are gone.
Later,
Dan
