It's that season. Slow. Everything is slower. The cold makes the days stretch on (well except when you get your appointment card from the accountant and your appointment day was set 2 weeks earlier than it normal and instead of a month to prep for tax time, you have 10 days. Then time seems to FLY!) and if there's little sun that day too? Then it's just endless. The van grumbles and rumbles and takes extra time to warm up, I have to watch how I walk outside because no one likes to slip and fall (especially if, as I discovered, your landing pad is a 5 gallon bucket...Ouch) so no quick hops/skips/jumps for me, and the lower the temp, the slower the cow.
Yes, it's slow season for us. So what does a farmer do when he can't be cutting hay, plowing fields, or planting corn? What do we do before the busy-ness of Spring comes along and calves are being born, machinery is being prepped, and we start counting down the days til tractors can get back in the fields?
Simple. We slow down. House projects get done (or at least further progress is/should be made), books get read, hills get skiied/slid down, cocoa gets sipped, snowmen get made, and who knows, we may even get a vacation in. Because our year is flip-flopped and our busy time is most peoples vacation time (can't make hay in January but you sure can in June and July, right?), this is our season to relax, sit back, and enjoy the days cold though they may be.
Because, before we know it, Spring gets sprung and we'll be back to busy, busy, busy business.
