I had trouble deciding what to call this post. It was either “How to Keep Chickens From Dust Bathing in Your Flower Bed” or “What I Did for Lunch“. One thing I’d like to post about is my schedule. Being lucky enough to work for a great company, I am telecommuting from Hillsville, VA (EST) to Boulder, CO (MST) – a two hour difference. My work hours will be the same as those in the office: 8am to 5pm MST with an hour lunch somewhere in the middle. It works out perfectly because I wake up at 6am EST but work (for pay) from 10am EST to 7pm EST. That gives me 4 hours in the morning to do my chores, eat, shower and enjoy a cup of coffee on the porch before getting down to office work. Then at 7pm I can stop work, put up the chickens, eat dinner with my wife and maybe enjoy an hour of reading or TV before going to bed. PERFECT! But…

After nine months of planning and years of dreaming, the time has finally come. Next week Missy and I are going to head off to Europe for one last itch of the travel bug, and upon our return in two weeks we’ll be headed for Hillsville!
When we bought “the farm” it was our intent to put our city house up for sale and maybe live in it for another year while waiting for a buyer. To our surprise, someone snatched up
My wife is trying to sell her car. She still owed payments on it so I paid the car off from our savings with the plan being that she’d pay back our savings after she sold the car. It’s just easier to sell a car when you have the title in hand.
It is the end of a decade and the end of an era (The Denver Era) so I thought it would be an appropriate time to take a snapshot. Sometimes along the road of life we lose track of what was important to our earlier selves. Usually we’ve just grown into different priorities. Still, it is important to be reminded of our values and priorities as they were at a given point in time so that we might hold our older selves accountable to our earlier selves.
