here on the farm there's a certain beauty and magic with all the mundane
and routine things you have to do so each day my morning routine is as
follows I wake up really early try to get up with the sunrise and I come
downstairs I get outside and then I feed the cats easy buddy don't fight me for
this traditionally I've never been a cat
person but there's something about these two barn cats that we have it really
brings out the softy in me Pablo no don't eat Lil's food hey Pablo you have
your own food we have an old springfed pump that sits underneath the bar
there's a lot of waiting time for me as I just wait for the pumps to fill up the
water containers for the Ducks I used to really hate that experience of having
the weight but now I relish in it there's all sorts of interesting stuff
that I noticed I can observe and it's just like my daily pause and meditation
moment you can see it right here this water pump is starting to leak
come after replace it at some point I mean it's old but it's not so old that
it wasn't made in China it's amazing these spiderwebs so complex
blows my mind I find that there's a certain amount of physical exertion that
comes with hauling the water out to the decks now that I'm moving further out
and pasture I don't necessarily mind it when I was living in the city I used to
have the routine of going to the gym every morning this is very much replaced
it surprisingly though but living out here on the farm and not going to the
gym on a daily basis I've lost about 20 pounds
Ggo figure
the doctor always very happy to get out of the Dutch house every morning and you
go look for slugs and eat whatever food I've brought them
look how much manure these guys lay down that's remarkable they are absolute poop
factories I get really excited as I just come out here every morning to watch
these guys it took a lot to get to this place to be able to have ducks out on
pasture
it wasn't easy it took us a long time to be able to get this going and we faced
some adversity when all the Ducks got sick and we lost nearly a third of the
flock but these survivors the ones that are hanging in there they're doing so
well so much of what I found farming has been about it's doing things small basis
but as I've been thinking about it that idea in that philosophy doesn't just
apply to the farm that applies to life so much of life is the mundane everyday
so much of life is about how you wake up the day you get out there to take care
of the things and people that you really care about and how you chip away I've
made your casts and projects that you're working on and how you try to just make
just a little bit of incremental progress each day in the frustrations
with that are real - ducks are absolutely filthy creatures
I can get boring the routine can feel stale you can get sick of doing the same
thing over and over again you can feel like you're not actually making any real
progress but if you keep chipping away day by day by day you start to notice as
pick your head up and backwards that over time you've made so much progress
so for those of you who are out there wondering what is the most important
thing you need to get a homestead or a farm going I would absolutely say it all
comes down to you being willing to do the grind and ship away like if you're
just looking at it as drudgery it's gonna feel like drudgery but if you stop
and just walk to the fire the stuff that's happening on a daily basis right
in front of your eyes it's pretty great