As I scroll through social media each day I see summertime adventures unfolding around me. Trips to the cottage, camping adventures and holidays overseas. Generally people find the time to break from their regular schedule and “vacation” over the summer months.
City people.
Living on a farm means that summer is our IT month. It is prime season for the hens to catch all sorts of strange lurking diseases, the heat making the birds weaker and the bacteria stronger. This means keeping the coop even cleaner, and being on top of everything, everyday!
It is months or work in the garden, keeping the weeds at bay, harvesting our crop and ensuring that our hard work doesn’t dry up and wither away.
It means adding MORE fencing when the deer break through the gaps in the old one. It means finishing all the projects that need to be done BEFORE the rains begin. It is more digging, more building and more rolling of giant rain tanks to get in place for the winter.
And it means that a “summer off” is squeezed into afternoons at the lake, after a heavy morning of hard work. It means the “aches and pains” of our regular schedule intensify with the summer work, and the evenings are filled with movie nights and “back aches”
But it is all worth it in the end as we fill our baskets full of fresh produce, and help the chickens make it through a hot summer into a crisp fall. The days in summer are long, and we work to enjoy every moment of them with the kids, working the farm, playing in the sunshine.
There is no time to stop and no time for recovery, so we make sure to stay on top of the aches, and bumps and bruises and (even) sprains with the Orange Naturals homeopathic products, including a topical Joint Pain cream and Pain relief Cream and of course, this homeopathic remedy for bumps and bruises (which I seem to get a lot of)
Summer may be a “vacation” on the calendar, but for us it is all about MORE work and MORE play, and doing our best to keep the aches at bay!
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