Taking time to enjoy.

Even though we farm on a very small scale when you live on a farm hard work is a given. Plus a 40 hour a week job. Tiring at times. Of course I wouldn’t trade it. Well, the 40 hour a week job for retirement ASAP.

The cattle and horses are what we work hard for. Not hard every day. But we usually spend at least one of our weekend days doing something around the place. Some time both Saturday and Sunday.  Sometimes things need to be done during the week too.

I don’t count taking my walk and checking on the cattle everyday as work. That is pure enjoyment. As is stopping on my walk to pet horses.

This weekend it was finish work to ready for concrete to be poured for two automatic waterers for the live stock. Plus the usual homeowner things like yard work. That was part of our Saturday.  Part of our Sunday we worked to clear brush and small trees from one of the fence rows so we can repair the barbed wire hidden by years of growth.

We also took personal time to truck our bull Eli to the vet for his breeding soundness exam during the week.

I am doctoring an injury everyday on one of the horses. Nothing serious. But it needs daily attention.

None of this is a complaint.  I love what we do. Can’t wait to be retired and have more time to do it AND enjoy things like actually ride my horses.

Today the weather was perfect.  Man,  I love this time of year.

I was not going to let the couch calling, the Patriots playing or everything else indoors stop me. Nor any more outside work.

I went for a trail ride!

I saddled my shortest horse, Sparky, because the thought of lifting a saddle up to my mare Phil, who is 16.1 hands tall, just sounded like too much work. Besides, Sparky is the most quiet and dependable. I just didn’t want anything to ruin the ride.

We didn’t ride far or for long. Just checked out the trails the skidder made when we sold some lumber off the place last year.

It was quiet, peaceful, sunny, and warm. There were butterflies on the purple asters along the trail. We disrupted the nap of a couple of deer. Just what I needed. Yep just what I needed.