seventh grade math

a lot of times on the farm little projects are constantly getting put off.  it’s a good idea, of course, and the intention is in the right place, but right at the last second something more pressing will appear and reprioritize it.  building this fence.  cleaning that shelf.  but then, you know, i’ll end up having to sprint through a suburban neighborhood after a five hundred pound calf instead.

and so today—after four months of seeing that long cardboard box with the impressively heavy plastic roll inside sit in the corner of our equipment shed and wonder when we would use it—today, we put the cover on the hoop house.

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