MDH and I may have bitten off more than we can chew this year, but we are going to give it our best attempt. We are changing up our enterprise mix by adding custom grazed stockers. This is pretty exciting for us in many ways, as it improves our bottom line and allows us faster improvement on our soil. However, it also requires more water infrastructure, more fencing infrastructure, and thus more labor and money. We are well on our way, though, and although it has been a little rough through the process, it feels pretty good knowing we are on the downhill slide. There are so many great things happening here in the valley! In two weeks time, at the end of April, we will be having a baby, calving, and bringing in the yearlings. We don't really know any other way to be, I guess. A friend recently came to visit me, and in seeing my house in total disarray, two dogs and two children running all over the place, and my large pregnant belly, she asked, "Tara, are you sure you're ready for this baby?" Nope, but we'll figure it out and role with the punches. I've accepted that life will be quite chaotic with little sleep, and as long as we can approach the chaos with humor and love, we will get through it. Same team, right??! (Maybe pray for us a little.)
We are proactively doing as much planning work right now as we can. We have a pipeline plan in place, a yearling delivery scheduled, a grazing plan in place (and charted), and will have a drought plan by tomorrow. This is the first time that we really did a thorough job of planning our grazing for the year and actually charting it out. We have a drought planning meeting this week, and although it does not appear at this point that drought is going to be an issue for us this year, we still make the plan and revise it each year. It just makes it easier to make good decisions when the time comes, and not allow our emotions to play into our thinking. Now if I could just get a small corner of our bedroom set up into a nursery, we'd be set!
So there is a little update with our crew. Hanging on by a thread, but still laughing and loving along the way. Someday I will miss this!
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