How Ya Doing?

I love having the opportunity to share farm life with my readers. This has been a chronicle of daily activities that lend a time frame to the weeks, months and decades of this working farm. I try not to do a lot of preaching although my soapbox does get dusted off now and again, I try to stay out of the political fields, and I try to share upbeat stories even when things are not so wonderful.

You may have noticed that I don’t spend a lot of time talking about the worldwide pandemic on this platform in fact I don’t believe I have mentioned it until now. I have been trying to keep this site as farm oriented as possible in the midst of the world changing. But something happened this week that I wanted to share.

At this time we are still delivering firewood bundles to the stores so those sequestered at their homes have that comfort but we have changed our delivery methods. Instead of 9am delivery we are now at the store well before they open (sometimes as early as 4am), we keep our distance from all night crew workers at the store, we only touch equipment after it has been sanitized as best we can, and do not let anyone help unload the pallets of bundled wood. But I do ask them how they are doing. They look tired, bone weary tired and their answers are mostly that they are hanging in there, just  barely. When I was delivering the other day, the concerned clerk asked me how I was doing. It rather surprised me, my life has not changed, much.

We are still delivering family packs of locker beef for our customers that want some on hand at home. The delivery hasn’t changed much except for the fact that we don’t come into our customers homes now. Many have opted to have the meat delivered into a cooler on the porch and they retrieve after we have left the area. And we no longer give hugs with each delivery for now.

On the farm, we are fairly well self-contained already even before all the mentions of social distancing started floating around. The farm does not stop when someone doesn’t feel well or has an injury. The cows still need to be fed, the fields still need to be worked, the forest still needs to be maintained. Our daily life has not changed much in the last couple of weeks aside from the fact that we do not go to meetings, or town or shopping or to visit friends.

The clerk’s question reminded me that one of the things that we are doing differently is trying to connect with those who we don’t see or hear from very often. I have been touching base with those social media friends, making phone calls, exchanging texts and waving more when neighbors drive by on the county road. So I am asking you, my dear readers, how are you doing? Leave me a comment, a personal message, a call, a text or send good vibes through via the collective consciousnesses, but check in with me.

And while you are at it how about checking on those who you haven’t heard from in a while, those who may be lonely or forgotten in all this craziness going on in the world.

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