I will do my weekly recap tomorrow. Today, a short post about my morning. It was a dreary, damp morning. The horses were out which made things easier to start. Breakfast went as usual. After we finished that task I was talking to another volunteer before heading to the hay barn. He was showing me … More An Interesting Morning at the Barn
Even though I went in for a couple of hours last week, yesterday was what I consider my first real day at work since I am starting my regular schedule. While I am on my 6-hours-a-week schedule I will mainly be doing the same things I was already doing on Monday mornings. So, yesterday was … More First Real Day of Work Report
My life at the farm has escalated quickly. A timeline with some news at the end. November 2021 – I was doing a month-long volunteer thing where we went to various places and did various tasks. One cold November morning we met at MTR to help them clear out weeds and dirt to build some … More The Next Step in My Farm Life
As I’ve written about way too much(and another horse/goat-related post coming soon to Medium) I am volunteering at a therapeutic riding place. For the most part, I enjoy working there and have no big issues with the other volunteers. I even finally got to the point that the Saturday barn lead seems to trust me … More They Are Everywhere
I knew it was coming. I knew online school would lead to the end of the snow day. New York schools have no announced that there will be no snow days. Snow days will now be remote learning days. I assume other school systems will do the same. I’ve written multiple times about snow days … More In Defense of Rest
Today feels like the first day back at work after vacation. I took a break from my regular schedule a little over a week ago and went into vacation mode. I still worked on the blog, but I didn’t really go back to my long form writing at all. My daughter came home Sunday and … More Back in the Saddle
A long time ago I did a post about my first seven jobs and then I updated and reposted it over the summer. After staring at my laptop for a good fifteen minutes and looking at blog ideas, I decided I would write about some of my jobs that did not make the list of … More Some of My Random Jobs
I am now in week two of my new reality. I am still figuring out what this new reality looks like. One thing I have noticed is that my thought process when it comes to productivity is flawed in a few ways. One of those ways is how my brain sees time. Most of my … More Changing the Clock in My Head
This will be much more detailed about work than I would ever write before. More brave now since I’m almost done. I wrote about how yesterday was party day. I also wrote about how my last week was not a normal last week because I keep getting calls about decisions on things that will happen … More How to Ruin a Moment
I think today is the day my departure from work will start to feel real. Today is the day of my Zoom farewell party. Today is the day people from across the system will show they like me just enough to log into a Zoom call to say goodbye. I did receive four nice messages … More Party Day
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