Much of the work on a farm requires serious thought. Whether it is the timing of your planting gardens, deciding which of your herd is getting bred (although we’ve found that our planning sometimes doesn’t matter when there is a breakout), watering schedules, decisions on when to harvest, or preparing to do an event such as a reunion, you expend a lot of energy thinking about your farm. But then there are the tasks that just require physical action. And they can be beautiful as well.
Fall is the time you prepare for the winter. We heat with wood and electricity and much of our cooking is over fire or in a wood fired oven. So, the buying, storing and stacking of wood is a really important part of living on Farscape Farm. And today was stacking day. It was a glorious day for doing something as mindless as stacking a cord or so of wood. The weather was beautiful as the high reached only about 68 degrees. A playlist of Beethoven Symphony Cycles accompanied me on our outside speakers and I spent at least a couple of hours filling our new woodshed. Sounds boring, right? Nope, it was a beautiful day to own Farscape Farm.
When I finally retired to dinner and then bed, I was physically tired and totally clear headed. That’s the secret for me. I try to find beauty in all of the “chores” that need to be done to live on Farscape Farm. And today’s chore was stacking wood.
