If truck engines and bees, and then planting a small vineyard and a new garden in front of the house weren’t enough… I also celebrated yet another trip around the sun last week.
Yeah. That’s a 12:01 AM birthday omelette (with maybe a mostly-empty bottle of bourbon in the background… so what?) Everyone should have candles on their birthday omelette is all I’m saying.
Also, I remember a post on this website where, after years of referring to myself as “almost thirty” I said “at some point soon I’m going to turn actual thirty and then I have no idea how I’m going to obtusely refer to my age on this website”… Ha. Well guys, I’m now officially in my mid-thirties. That’s how long I’ve been doing this.
Also, I love it.
Getting stressed out about birthdays or getting older has never been my thing because with every year I’ve only become more capable of doing all of the shit I want to do in life. More experience. More reps. More settled in my life. It’s been such a wonderful journey, and I’m so incredibly grateful to be where I am right now.
(Also, this time last year I totally thought I was turning 35– when actually I was turning 34– so this has all basically been a bonus year.)
So, in addition to birthday omelettes, here’s how I celebrated:
My mom got me a pine tree…
(And then she later surprised me with 6 new fruit trees for my orchard!!!)
And I bought myself a couple of cranberry bushes to be planted around the bees. All of those will be delivered this week and there will be a ton of planting to do.
Also, one of my good friends got me this thing, and holy shit…
Can I just tell you guys that this has dramatically increased my quality of life? It has. Not only can you use your phone to find your keys with this, you can use your keys to find your phone. You can find more info here. (Not sponsored, just amazing for those of us who occasionally misplace our wallets for two days and then later find them in the refrigerator…)
It happens.
One of my other friends also got me what may be the most touching present of the year…
Yeah. Just… yeah.
I love it so much. (Also, the Nugs approve, obviously.) And it was made by another friend, which makes it even more awesome.
I plan to hang it on the front porch just as soon as I get things set up out there.
And, on the other end of the spectrum, my dad decided to get me an assault rifle…
Look at that grin on his face. Haha. I’m definitely my father’s daughter, and if that wasn’t clear by my level of excitement at a new gun (he got me my first one when I was 21), well… the first thing he did when he got up to the farm was pile a picnic table and some Adirondack chairs onto my trailer so he could conveniently haul it out back as a mobile targeting station…
Literally a week before this I figured out how to attach an archery-and-axe target to a garden wagon so I could conveniently haul my targets around the property…
Ha.
The apple does not fall far from the tree around here, apparently.
We also celebrated with “movie night” by the pond, where most of my family lives…
Yeah. I got to pick the movies since it was my birthday weekend, and that’s the Princess Bride.
So basically, it was a great birthday filled with all the best things– friends, family, omelettes, guns, and “rodents of unusual size”.
Plus bonfire or two thrown in for good measure…
I always wish I could’ve gotten more done–especially over a “break” where I can just focus on the farm–but as far as progress over 6 days goes, I can’t complain. We’re well on our way to awesome things around here this year, and I can’t wait to see how it all comes together!
Article reference Spring Break on the Farm: Part 3
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