Welcome back!! Its been a while since we have last updated on our progress. I can’t really tell you why we took a break, maybe we were just busy but either way we missed chatting with you. 2020 was crazy pants. I mean did everyone see those Match.com commercials with Satan and 2020?? There literally could not have been a more perfect ad to end the year.
Ok, so back to what we are really here for, what did we actually accomplish last year? A lot actually. We added fruit trees for the future, because we all know the best time to plant fruit trees is five years ago. Unfortunately, my time travel machine is currently in the shop, so we instead stopped what we were doing and put some trees, bushes and vines in the ground, so in 5 years we can eat them (the fruit, not the tree) :-). It seems crazy that we had to stop everything to put a couple trees in the ground right? Well for us that first meant removing some trees that didn’t want to come up. Also for a couple things we had to build a trellis so they could grow off the ground. We still have a few more fruits we want to get in the ground in 2021 but at least we have a starting place now.
2020 also brought us ANIMALS. A lot of animals. You can see all their cute little faces throughout our facebook, but the highlight here is it brought us our first egg, and then our second and for a brief moment in time we found ourselves drowning in eggs. The weather however, decided to get cold and rainy, and the next we knew we had no eggs. Silly chickens. They are a lesson in patience and thankfulness.
The Farmer’s Market was a HUGE 2020 milestone for us, full of valuable lessons. Our application has been approved for the 2021 season and we look forward to seeing you guys again…with SO MUCH MORE PRODUCE!! That was the biggest lesson for us. We didn’t know how much to plant, and once again I couldn’t go back in time to plant more when we needed it. Hopefully, I am doing a better job of planning this year…if the frozen mud season would ever end. It’s not just me right? This has been one of the rainiest winters I can remember.
While I tend to focus on the positive, I would be remiss to not highlight the less than fun things 2020 brought us. We experienced our first farm animal loss, which I will post in another blog this week (stay tuned). We experienced loss of friendships as our lives begun to follow a slightly less societal flow or maybe a more “traditional” style is a better way to explain it. Some of our friends just couldn’t relate to us anymore and as much as we tried to build a bridge, we found ourselves traveling down different paths. I think the thing that hurt us the most in 2020 was when our crops failed, that is totally a part of the learning process though and I think we are in a much better place for 2021.
I don’t know many people who are going to say that 2020 was their FAVORITE year ever, but honestly for me, it wasn’t the worst. I learned a lot. I met new people. I picked up new hobbies. I got to spend more time with my husband, which was one of the biggest blessings to come out of 2020. I grew as a person (dang quarantine calories, just kidding). 2020 showed me what I want for the future. Now it would have been nice if it had a provided a crystal ball so that I knew exactly what I need to do to get there, but it did provide mentors and that is kind of like a crystal ball.
So lets just jump, feet first (safety first y’all), focused on all the positive things that are going to happen (SPEAK LIFE) and see what 2021 has in store for us.