Call from Keith
We have this partner thing pretty well figured out.
Keith milks the cows, I enter all the sales receipts into Quicken
Keith fixes cow and hog fences. I fix the horse fence.
Keith wrestles with the GK’s and winds them up.
I unwind them with stories and bribes and put them to bed
Keith chases all the big animals BACK home while I
Keith and Ashland convincing Mrs Dalloway she should be at home rather than visiting the neighbors |
…Deal with the inspectors.
It’s a fair division of labor. Physically he handles 80% of this farm while I handle 80% of the consumer/inspector/regulatory stuff.
So when I get a call in the house from Keith who is outside that says “Hey, that lady is here in the store to do that stuff with the thing, do you want to come out? I grab my Wellies and go.
We avoided getting a retail license for as long as we could when we first opened the farm store. It was on our property, not in the middle of a mall and getting a retail license seemed ridiculous. But being as we did report the income to IRS, yes I know, call us foolish, we knew there was a paper trail back to “The Spotted Wattle” (Name of our store)
And because we were already knee deep in arguing with the state Department of Public Health about raw milk rules, we though we might as well play nice with our county Public Health Department.
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I mean come on…in my peak years, I think that was age 30 to age 33 and 1/2, I could have taken on several regulatory agencies at one time– and did–but now I do better with one sword fight at a time. I also must admit it’s fun to abide by the rules in one area, getting the perfect report with no deficiencies, while fighting with the bigger IDPH and insisting on no rules for raw milk.
Fills my inner need to be a complex aka a schizophrenic Manurepreneur I guess. Fortunately our inspection went well.
So with the pig and the inspector taken care of, or so he thinks, Keith leaves to deliver meat to Peoria Ten minutes later, Mrs. Dalloway hits the road again
What is her deal?!? Plenty of food, nice hutch, cute babies to snuggle up with, gobs of room in her own pasture but Nooooooo. She has to go exploring. So in Keith’s absence, Ashland the wonder Shepard and I try heading her back home again. While nipping her in the rump she weaves back
and decides to chase Ashland for awhile and then when I’m not looking she makes a quick right into the machine shed.
There, THAT should keep her in for awhile. Yeah, I don’t even care how longingly she looks back at those wide open pastures. You got responsibilities mama and if you don’t like to, too bad, Should have considered that before you went romping in the field with Big Wally.
Source: http://midlifefarmwife.blogspot.com/2013/11/call-from-keith.html
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