My fiance is still at #work. I thought I'd be diligent and cut some #firewood with a wood splitter. Oh that was #hardwork! The wood kept getting stuck in the cutter blade (branches made cutting difficult)! I had hit the wood with the poll of an ax to get it loose. I had to change all my clothes after 45 minutes because I was so sweaty. #working#suomimastodon#finland#countrylife#superwoman#workout
This kind of thing drives me nuts. That guy in the picture is a farmer. The apple tree behind him takes planting, watering, pruning, harvesting, preserving year after year. He had to prepare and bake that pie he's eating. The garden takes cultivating, buying seeds, planting, weeding, watering, harvesting, preserving. Then the chickens need a chicken house built, summer and winter they need fencing, protection, water, food, and managing. If any of this all gets sold, the farmer has to either go to a market or build a market stall, pick in early mornings, wash, display, sell, manage the money and accounting.
All of that is just from this little silly painting. Everyone has to "grind". It's just different depending on how you choose to live your life. Memes like this contribute to the problem of younger people heading to the country to "live freely" and get so bogged down by the amount of work it takes that they fail then write massive amounts of blogs about how homesteading is "not sustainable" and no one can do it. Anyone can do it. You just have to be prepared to work your ass off.
Wowza I'm not sure how nearly 4 months have passed and I haven't posted. I guess a lot has been going on. I hope y'all are all well, safe, and feeling loved. If not, lmk, I'll give you a digital hug for the ages.
"Rural Change is a wellbeing program for farmers where we help simplify getting them into mental health professionals in a private practice. Which cuts down wait lists of weeks on end via the public health system. The public health system is really good, it's just really limited..."