What a beautiful day! Perhaps it is too optimistic, but it feels like Spring. My dishes are soaking, I am sitting here with a fresh cup of coffee at my elbow, what could be better?
Everything is going along splendidly on Laughing Water Farm. The chickens are finally laying enough eggs for our needs, the geese will be laying soon and the sheep will be sheared next week. I hope that the ewes don't lamb before then, as they are very wooly and if the newborns aren't very vigorous, they will have trouble finding their breakfast. It is hard to tell if their close up when they are as woolly as they are.
We could raise all of our food. We haven't needed to. We raise goats for milk {Jamie makes several kinds of cheese}, chickens for eggs and meat, a few turkeys for meat and geese for I don't know what. We love goose, but the thought of plucking them, discourages us. We have thought about plucking them for down; have you ever held a squawking goose in your lap and plucked their breasts? It is no picnic. We only keep a small flock of sheep.We love lamb and we sell the wool to the shearer. We originally intended to raise sheep for the wool and sell it to people who were into hand spinning; but that requires making your own market. That is not my thing. I didn't inherit the salesman gene. Of course, we have a sizable garden. Jamie cans and freezes large quantities of vegetables. We still have potatoes and hopefully they will last for awhile yet.
We love the lifestyle, raising animals and plants affords us. It keeps you in the rhythm of the seasons and helps you feel part of all there is. We don't do it because we think we need to. Although, there is considerable comfort in knowing you can feed yourself in times like these.
I wish I could tell people what is going to happen. I don't know more than anybody else. I just know what it looks like and you can do that too. I feel great changes will happen this year. I always thought a financial collapse would precede everything else. However, the money people have such a monopoly on the sources of wealth, that they can control the day to day fluctuations of the stock market with relative ease. It looks like things will grind to a halt rather than crash. People who have steady jobs don't realize things are getting worse and worse for a large segment of the population. Poverty and homelessness continue to increase. The economic advisers, I look to, see no evidence of a recovery.
Yet, there is evidence of people deciding that enough is enough and in a nonviolent way taking control of the situation. The dark will co-opt the movements {Wall Street Occupiers etc.} as much as they can. They will send in agents provocateurs to incite violence and do anything they can to cast aspersions on the character of the demonstrators. Don't pay attention to this. The larger movement is founded on a love for all humanity. It can't be stopped. It won't be stopped. Love can not be stopped.
Live your life this year with great optimism, with great love for those around you and dream of paradise.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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