Whew! What a couple of weeks it has been!

Mondays are typically Make-stuff days (breads, jellies & jams, meals to be frozen, etc.).  It is also a laundry & housekeeping day.

I've been tutoring a friend in computer literacy in weekly 3-ish hour Tuesday sessions. It's going well and she now has an understanding of how to organize files on a computer. To facilitate the class, my husband has set up a PC tower next to the coffee table and a HUGE behemoth of a monitor that must weigh a million pounds that we must lift to put on and eventually off the table for the instruction.

Wednesdays I've been attending a 4 hour Master Gardener class about 45 minutes away. It's great fun and I've been able to meet new people and network a bit on a social AND professional level. After only 3 classes, I can now understand why many of last year's gardening failures happened. ONly 9 more classes left and I hope to be in much better shape for this year's projects.

I've started volunteering at an agriculture museum about an hour away in order to earn the 50 hours required to be certified as a Master Gardener. I go back tomorrow and hope to have a friend join me in the coming weeks. It's informative and practical in that the education we are getting in class is actually being applied in a hand-on approach. It's hot and it's not the easiest work, but the guide is nice and it's a beautiful site with lots of history. That's 4 hours on Thursday mornings.

Friday is typically a catch-up at home day. We weed, mow, sow seeds, make things for the house, etc. Since we've ordered 40 birds (25 chickens and 15 guineas), we'll be  building a brooder, chicken house, and, perhaps, a barn to house future cattle & other livestock. Then we shower & head to a friend's place to unwind, play cards and have lively discussions.

Saturday, we continue catching up and try to organize other projects on the farm.

Then there's Sunday... the "day of rest"... when we get up at 4am for the hog hunt. If we catch something, we go to a neighbor's place to butcher the beasts. If we do NOT catch something, we shower and go to church. Then back to weeding, mowing, clearing paths through the brush and building needed things for the farm.

Then we do it all over again...

You'd think we'd be dropping weight like crazy doing all this...

...apparently that's a slow process, too! LOL!