Mark's words of wisdom
Mark's got a useful saying
for every occasion, and two of these gems came to mind on Friday.
Can "work smart not hard" involve paying someone else to do the
impossible task of carrying 41 cattle panels and 82 fenceposts through
a swamp and up a gully to the pig pasture? (It's smart because we didn't have to do it!)
B.J.'s brother and
step-cousin-once-removed (if I got that relationship right) did an
amazing job of plugging along through the back-breaking labor. A
passel of these
awesome cookies
helped. (I'd lower the sugar content by 25% to 50% for adults,
but the kids ate about 70% of the batch as-is.)
"If you're going to
break a man do it on a Friday." Yep, this one definitely
applies. The question is, if you break a man on a Friday, will he
come back Monday to continue working through the rest of his spring break?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I think cookies make everything better!.
This is a random note, but i am getting my quick hoops up finally, and i stead of using rebar as stakes to hold the hoops, we used a larger diamter pvc and slid the hoops inside them, Pvc is way easier to cut, cheap, and they pounded i to the ground very easily. And they are holding very well so far. Just thought i would memtion another option to the rebar.