At 815 pm last night I got a text from my neighbor next to the farm. My cows had jumped the fence and were headed west. I jumped in the car and drove over (10 miles). Fortunately I have been giving them a carrot or apple every day, so when I got there, they turned around and walked the quarter mile back to their pen. 10 minutes later I had the two big bovines in but the calf couldn't figure out how to walk through the open gate. 40 minutes, a lot of explicit language, a much less than helpful horse, and a few more escape attempts by the cow later, I had them in and the fence patched. I was about to leave, when she jumped it again and headed west at a steady trot. She is faster than I am, so I didn't try to run her down. I fixed the fence again, and gave the steer and calf more hay to keep them content. Eventually she realized that her friends weren't coming and she came back. I got her locked up just before it was really dark (945). I am heading out there early this morning to completely re-do the hotwire that is not carrying the charge I need to keep her highness in. It is a full moon and she is in a strong heat. At this spot there is a huge ranch across the river, but their bulls are at a different location, so it is a very long walk to the nearest boyfriend for her. I have a feeling that life is going to give me some "colorful stories" this week. Planting Frost again this morning, and there might be one more in the next 10 days, then I can finally put everything out in the garden. I did add lemon balm to the perennial tubs. I have been using it a fair bit this spring for stress support. Fig! I got a fig plant, which will go into a bigger pot. Eventually it will go into one of the future greenhouses at the farm. Harvesting Eggs and more eggs. A neighbor suggested pickled eggs. If anyone here has pickled eggs successfully before please drop tips in the comments. Catnip. It is out of control and I have a craft fair in a few weeks that I can sell it at.

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On top of all of the end of the school year activities this week, and our house getting norovirus, our 4H club hosted their first fundraiser. Our club is tiny, only 6 families and most have just one kid involved. We hosted a pie making contest attached to a community event in our village. This also included selling pie and baked potatoes. And a parade float.... I'm the assistant leader for the club. My main role for the club is keeping everyone organized and announcing the schedules for the week. This is not something I am inherently good at, and have had to learn tricks over time as I started nursing school, and since. Over the last two days I realized how much I have learned about this, while watching our main club leader. She has decades of experience, but I watched her trying to run too many mental trains on too many tracks at once. I saw her literally running in circles trying to hold every piece simultaneously. And the thing that struck me was how familiar that looked. If she could put that effort into one or two things at once, she would be unstoppable! I used to run my life the same way. Trying to run too many things from my memory and a pile of lists (if I was lucky), and flying by the seat of my pants. (Gotta love undiagnosed ADHD). Nursing school, running a livestock operation, raising a child, homeschooling, and navigating my husband's serious health issues forced me to learn quickly that my brain could not be the only place my systems lived. Today I am putting together checklists for what we actually used or wished we had. I am updating the list of sponsors for thank you cards , and who to ask again next year. I will write a list of roles (as it actually happened) and improved timelines for their tasks. I now have canva templates for advertising for next year. These will sit in a docs folder attached to a Gmail account I started just for the event. No more trying to remember months later. This closes the mental tab, and my brain can move forward guilt free. It seems like overkill, but the extra hour it will take today, will save a TON of bandwidth next spring, because next spring won't be less chaotic.

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