Well, don’t ask me!
Make a list then watch the day chew it up and spit it out!!
First with a good old fashioned storm!
Shelf cloud I believe.
An inch of rain yesterday and another inch pouring down right this minute!
We are getting a lot of rain this week.
Then kids – a couple of days and a couple more days surprise babysitting for a little family of kids.
Kids get Ton up out of bed!
If there is a scratch on offer Tima will sniff it out.
We have an unfenced pond so kids here need a grown up watching all the time. But this little farmer-to-be was glued to my side. He spent a lot of time sitting on a brick in the Pop-Pops little meadow. Dispensing pats and scratches.
We don’t have a TV or big screen of any description so the children were outside with me most of the day.
At one point we turned all the feed buckets upside down and made drums on the verandah. I was glad when their Dad finished work and came to have dinner then take them home.
In fact the best way you can manage a day like yesterday for maximum efficiency is to stay ahead of each task. Plan your next task as you are finishing the existing one. I literally lay out the tools and seed the idea for the next task as I go, so the kids and I never have time to get up to mischief.
Today is Thursday which means I have help but it is POURING down rain. I guess our big job will be in the barn and hen house. I am going to get the big helpers to help me put the calf hut over the top of the piglets hut to create a wrap around verandah.
We hope to get most of the heavy work done before the little family is dropped off again.
This is too much rain.
Ok! Good morning. Time to get a wriggle on.
Celi
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21 responses to “How to Manage Your Day for Maximum Efficiency”
Your place would be a haven for little kids. I bet they loved the Pop-Pops. Much better than TV.
The turkeys think the kids are TV!
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Incredible photos as usual! That sky!
these Midwest skies in a storm are amazing!
Your title and first sentence had me laughing out loud! It is always important to plan that “the plan” will not go as expected!
You should run a summer camp!
Those turkeys are beginning to look like turkeys.
We’d love to have some of your rain down here! It’s been quite dry for too long now, after a nasty storm weeks ago. And we have a week in the 90s ahead! Lots of hose dragging these days. How wonderful for the kids to have whole days with you! Tiring, no doubt, but what wonderful experiences for the children to be on the farm, and to be with you!
Who doesn’t have oodles of rain in the US of A now? Here in Savannah, on the wet, marshy, and boggy SE coast, we have been getting thunderstorms almost every day. Everything is constantly damp, wet, or flooded, with puddles that ruin shoes. Biting insects love it, though, and mosquitoes are thriving.
A hurricane off the Atlantic is easing this way now.
sadly katharine up and down the west coast, the Rockies and areas like Denver have no rain- we have scorching hot, dry and multiple wildfires starting every day. It seems nowhere can anyone get the weather they really need or want.
I am reminded of my theory that lately the weather is rolling in extremes. We are either getting piles of rain or none at all. That said we are all hyper sensitive to changes in the weather at the moment. But always interesting Katherine to hear what we are each experiencing.
Extremes is a very good word C and it is still surprising (although I’m not sure why really) that changes are so very different in states that sit side by side. Even know how all the air flow patterns happen and how topography impacts climate it seems that currently it doesn’t do any good to plan given the rapid change. Seems as if this post is very timely in many ways 🙂
I’m tracking weather paterns over time, with help from blog friends around the world. I’m also tracking news/promo generated by MSM, so I’m passingly familiar with touted events like the Klamath Dam removal in Washington state. I guess this has created controversy in Idaho because Governor Little has followed the advice of his developer friends, who want to develop land at the expense of Idaho potato farmers. My point is that everything is interconnected, and I’m sorry you are having trouble and that wildfires are raging in the Pacific Northwest. If it’s any consolation, smoke particulates do seed clouds and bring rains, in nature’s perpetual cycle of rejuvenation.
What an interesting project Katharine! Do you have a career in climate science? Just interested in stats? Both? 🙂 I totally agree that everything humans manage to do, especially in harmful ways, impact everyone else as weather patterns travel and change across the earth. We always know up here that at some point the storms will roll in off the Pacific and our rains will return. It’s become too easy to predict year after year how the same areas will be torched and even when they get rain the consequences from all that water on decimated land creates more problems. Wishful thinking, but wouldn’t it be amazing to see improvements in your data as time passes…
Deb, Thanks for your response. I like real people who can communicate in ways I understand, but I don’t have specific credentials to back up My Opinions. I’m a little bit interested in everything. Most of my experience comes with travel when I was younger, and from daily challenges, like AI loopdeloops. I can relate to much of what other people say, but I don’t take much personally. I watch weather patterns here, because certain signals tell me storms are coming, and there’s a chance for lightning strikes in my front yard and power outages, as well as deluge runoff down to the salt water creek below.
That shelf cloud is impressive. I’m praying for another month or two of winter weather here before the Wet and storm season start so I can get a drain installed outside the chook pen, where there’s a low-lying patch that turns into a bog. But with my knee gone wonky, I fear that may have to wait for another year of sploshing down there in gumboots.
so cute, the littles and what a wonderful experience for them, much better than screens anyway! I am hoping for some rain here after days of hot, dry, extreme heat. yes, plans come and go, and so we go with them. this post is timely as I need to get on with my plan the day and off the screen. )
Yes! I am in and out until my help arrives then it will be no more screens until after dinner!
You sure can see the dinosaur origins of birds with those turkeys. Such a great experience for a kid to have a day on a farm.
Reading your subject line and then your opening paragraph made me laugh out loud!
I love seeing the pictures of kids on the farm. When my older daughter was small, my in-laws were still actively farming. She loved going to the barn to see the animals. It’s so good for kids.
Those clouds are magnificent!