It’s already Thursday of the first week of since Missus left her posting working for QuickBase. Missus and I have been working to catch up on things that have not been gotten to due to time constraints on her calendar. With both of us free, we hope to be able to catch up some things around the house, then get into this whole self-employment thing.
Ordering the house means getting things out that we don’t use, and putting things in the new shed that we will still use. It also means organizing the spaces where the old outbuildings are. There is a lot to do! We got a good start on the upstairs, and now the biggest obstacle up there is my den.
Yesterday we took a day to go into town and sort some things out and visit the salvage yard. Wouldn’t you know that before we could go, we had to deal with escaped goats? Could it have been the male? Could it have been the girls? No! It had to be goats gotten out of both pens! Did he have time to have his wicked way with any of them? I hope not! The escapees from the girl’s pen were his daughters! I guess will know for sure come December! Anyway, we got them rounded up and back in and pounded away at the fencing till it was in good enough order hold them for a bit again. Then we left for town.
FedEx is due to empty a truck out on our doorstep today. After that, I will have the packaging to take up to town for recycling and other things to take to the dump. The trailer is already full and waiting!
The house and workshops need a bit more work before we can get fully into this new life we are attempting.
So, what is this new life we are going to try out?
Missus wants to take her artistic skills off and make a bit of money with them. But mostly she wants to share in them with others, such as weaving and spinning, painting, wire weaving, and millions of old-time crafts she has learned over the years. I will be putting the farmland to work and giving a try at chandlery, as a sawyer, and hopefully getting my skills up at some furniture making. That’s a basic summary. I’ll get a proper post up announcing when I have things in order and am getting started properly.
She is now a registered business with Antiquary Artisan LLC, and I am registered too, as The Peasant’s Manor Farm LLC. More to come on that later, too.