Wake up around 8-9am, get a quick breakfast together of yogurt or milk and muesli with some extra raisins, coconut, and nuts thrown in. Drink a mug of tea. Lather everything visible in sunscreen, get my gumboots on and head out for morning work. Water the seedlings, feed the chickens, pick up the few morning eggs. Then off to the main morning work - weeding, planting, pruning, irrigation, organizing a shed on rainy days, whatever the day's fancy. Lunch time rolls in about 1pm, usually dinner leftovers; time for a wee break for reading or internets, and then back outside just after 2pm. Afternoon fun of more of the same and then check the chooks for eggs and pile them in the chiller. The Araucanas are in a separate run - they lay fantastic green eggs - and are currently occupied as lawn mowing chickens. Not quite as thorough as sheep, but they do a decent job. Knock off work around 5pm, hang about the house, have a beer, maybe read or do some yoga; dinner around 7-8pm; maybe a movie after. Bed around 11pm.
Nothing to get your blood pressure up. Wittle away the days, clean out a shed. "What's that bag of ...?" "Blood and bone." "What?" "Ground up blood and bone from rendering; put it on the strawberries for fertilizer." Yummy. Sorry vegans. SOL.
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