Getting off the Merry-Go-Round
Definition: Merry-go-round: a set or series of repeated activities that are quick, confusing, or difficult to leave.
It was our life. It describes most peoples’ life. Wake up, woof down something resembling breakfast, rush off to work/school, hurry to after-school practice of some sort, pick up supper on the way home, then it’s homework, check social media while watching TV (no time to do it separately!), throw in a load of laundry, hurry up and sleep fast and do it all again tomorrow.
Of course, there is the reward for all that hard work. It’s called a weekend, which more times than not, consists of all the house and yard chores you couldn’t get done during the week, running errands, going to a place of worship (if you don’t over-sleep), and just maybe, time on Sunday afternoon to watch a quick game if you don’t fall asleep on the couch. Sleep, there never seems to be enough time to sleep!
My husband calls it, “chasing your tail”. Around and around and around we go, when it will stop nobody knows or like the bumper sticker says, “I owe, I owe, so it’s off to work I go”. It’s the merry-go-round and we were screaming for it to stop because we wanted to get off. I’ll bet there are a lot of you out there screaming, too!
We want you to benefit from our experiences and knowledge so that your jump off will be as easy and painless as possible and you can hit the ground running! We will answer questions like: getting off the merry-go-round, how do you do it? What happens once you jump? (And you will have to jump because it is spinning faster these days.) What will life be like? If you don’t find the answers to your question on the blog, don’t hesitate to contact us! There’s probably someone else out there who is wondering the same thing you are!
We’ll also discuss the how-to’s of looking for a country property, off grid living, wood cook stoves, what to do about water, animal husbandry, gardening, money-saving tips to help you live as inexpensively as possible, recipes, subjects all things country, good old-fashioned stories, and interesting trivia facts like: most sugar trees yield less than 2 gallons of sap per tap, per season or the number “1” appears on a dollar bill 16 times. What’s that got to do with country living? Nothing, but you might need it someday to win a trivia game. You’re welcome!
