FFS

This is actually nuts. I’ve been considering if the fates are trying to tell me something, and if so, what is the message? It’s probably not that deep. It’s just weather.

I wish I had known back in September this was to come - I would have planted a small orchard of fruit trees; and maybe some native shrubs along the road to absorb the dust kicked up by passing cars and trucks. We don’t have irrigation so all this rain would have given them a great start.

Also on the immediate HR to-do list, the areas around the pepper tree and trailer - we need to put down gravel or some sort of ground cover to keep the mud and dirt in check. I’d also love to create a fenced off area for the dog to romp free. He’s good about being off-leash, but as soon as he sees a rabbit or a squirrel…it’s on! More than once I’ve chased him up a hill as he heads into parts unknown after some sort of varmint.

These are tasks we can tackle before the 90-degree+ days of summer. Before it gets too hot do anything but lounge in the shade or hide in the confines of the air conditioned-Mesa Ridge - tiny drops in the vast ocean of things I dream about to make HR a livable environment for more than a week at a time.

I’m someone who likes to see a plan through from conception to end result, so being perpetually stranded in the idea phase has been frustrating. Maybe learning to marinate in my ideas is the lesson the universe is screaming at me. As I’ve said, the house and environs I would’ve built when we bought the ranch, is not the same homestead I would create today.

For now, I will trust the process.