Sometimes you need a little manure...

NOTE: Apologies in advance for mild, colorful, yet entirely illustrative, language. 

OK. If I didn't say that the latter half of 2014 was anything BUT great, I'd be lying to you. We got the hope of a second child at the end of the summer, only to be greeted with my being laid off after 15 years of gainful employment... and then the sudden death of our unborn child. At the height of the cold winter darkness, just prior to Christmas and the New Year, we found ourselves sad, financially broke, and trying (as a family) to figure out what our next step would be.

I mean... what do you do with all of that shit??? (Yeah. I said it)

Well, I'm going to take a moment to hearken back to my formative years out on the prairie and farm lands of southern Minnesota. See, out there you've got nothing but farm, after farm. Farms for raising livestock. And farms for raising crops. Sometimes you will see farms doing both.

Now, on a typical farm, there is more than just one animal in the barnyard. We're talking 50+ of one kind of animal. And while a large head of cattle may seem like money in the bank, they produce a lot of... erhm... shit. A LOT. So much that it fill the springtime air with "Dairy Air", or derrière for that matter. (giggles)

But the farmers don't let that get them down, because that shit's useful!

No seriously. IT IS!!!!

If you remove it from the barns and compost it, you get some GREAT fertilizer. That fertilizer helps to make the crops grow, the flowering trees to produce fruit, and gardens everywhere to stretch, and reach, and make beautiful things happen. Without it... you've got dirt.

Where am I going with this? Well, we are the farmers in this life, and if you're like me, you've got a lot of that shit piled up. So, in 2015 we have decided to go forward, emotionally and financially compost it, spread it around, and allow new blessings to come up.

This past week, we entered into the new Lunar Year, the year of the Ram/Sheep. And, you guessed it, they produce a lot of good shit. So, I'm taking this new Lunar New Year as a cue to embrace that shit, and make it happen. I've begun to open up my Etsy shop more, am making more of my hand spun yarns available, have started taking on bigger commissions, and have begun to look into what possibilities, both big and small, may lie ahead for me.

But, first I need to crack out that shovel, get to work, and see how this shit fertilizes everything. (giggles)

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