I still have to work the same hours with the same people, so not much has changed. Wife is doing more on-line shopping, and curb-side pick-ups, which I get on my way home from work sometimes. But cows, horses, goats, etc still need fed... fence still needs built... farm life goes on, right? Doubt we'll be taking a vacation this summer, but will survive that, save up for next year.
The theme of these post seem to be like, 'I had a life before the virus and it continues after the virus appeared'.
It is like some people listen to the news and just give up and sit down and wait of the virus to take them out. Thinking that way and staying inside all of the time wrecks one's immune system.
Actually I grew up with animals and spent many hours in the tobacco patch walking behind our mule, milking cows by hand and the other stuff common on small farms in the 50's-60's. It was last summer when I had to get back in contact with animals when the wife got knocked down by a young filly that one of the mini horse mares was chasing. The daughter was working summer camp on KY Lake ran by the KY Fish and Wildlife Dept then after that she went to Germany for the fall semester. Doctors put three screws in the wife's broken hip and on full bed rest of 6 weeks. That all turned out well.
So for the first time in 50 years I was feeding and scooping poop for 6 100+ pound dogs and six mini horses and a young filly that was going to be a full size horse. Because of my physical limitations due a life time of arthritis (ankylosing spondylitis) I knew it was going to be a challenge for me but I knew I hold things together so the daughter did not have to worry because she had a full plate and excited about life and that the wife needed to do the bed rest if the broken hip was going to repair itself.
I grew up hearing preachers talk about dumb animals and man had dominion over all of creation. Soon I realized most of the 'dumb animals' had two legs and could talk. The animals could have had their way with me but they did not. Of course I was around and helped get in the hay and stuff so they knew me but soon I realized the animals understood my limitations and was glad that I was there for them. It just took me 69 years to open my eyes I guess.
Truly I look forward to life when some of my high school friends have or are giving up on life. There is a lot to be learned about ourselves and others from this 2020 pandemic.
It saddens me with so many needs world wide it seems educated men can only bicker and act like they all knowing when man is not in control of the virus but the other way around.
With that said a few weeks ago I realized most doctors in the medical community were just guessing because that was about all they could do since there was not proven protocol to handle a new unknown virus.
Having relearned last summer that the animals that had never been to school could figure out which end was up really is helping me to think more like an animal and try to side step the "emotionalism" of educated men every where we look today.
Since the kids are 22 and moving forward with life I expect that impacts my thinking about their future more than my future. While I am concerned about events I am not concerned about them because I have pushed them hard to think for themselves and I know they are good to go.
The world is operating under FEAR today. For the most part I see FEAR as standing for False Evidence Appearing Real. The only way I know for the world to get past FEAR is to get back out living life and learning our way forward in a new reality that men do not know it all or are in control of it all.
