Mon, 31 Jan 2005

A Very Busy Weekend

Sometimes a title says it all: this was indeed a busy weekend. Yesterday we purchased a stock trailer: we'd been looking for one for several weeks, and finally found a used one that was the right size and, more importantly, the right price. I'll post a pic as soon as we get the thing here: we have to have some work done on the big pickup before we can pick it up. That'll be next weekend.

Looking back over recent entries, I realized that I've not said anything about the boom in business we've been experiencing. I ran a small ad in the Lebanon Reporter for our eggs and chickens, and offered free home delivery in Boone County. That was a month ago: I had to beg the paper to stop the ad after two weeks because we had so many calls I couldn't keep up with demand. We've added to our laying flock and now have about 40 hens running loose in our paddocks, and another 25 down at a friends house in Ladoga. We're selling about 20 dozen a week - and that's all my ladies can lay in the dead of winter.

There have been a bunch of other changes around here as well, and a project that has been bubbling on the back burner for a while is about to come to the fore: I can't say anything about it just yet, but it'll show up in these pages soon enough.

Perhaps the most telling change is that I'm starting to turn down contract programming jobs. I'd rather concentrate on the farm, which is our long term goal. High tech is just too unstable, and probably will remain so. Farming has it's frustrations, too, but they're easier to cope with, as most of them involve things over which I have some degree of control. Software ... well, everybody wants Windoze stuff, and I'm just so sick of writing to that bastardized platform that I could go hurl somewhere. So, screw it. The customers I currently have are in until they get out, but I'll seek no new business writing code.

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