Money

Okay, I had a good show at SAFF, now where does all that money go? Booth fees $325, goat show fees $156, fuel $100, motel room $367.53, food around $100 we took the cooler, vet fees $45, farm help while I'm away, about $200, a years work of shearing, washing, dyeing, picking, carding, spinning yarn, packaging, printing, displays, and my aching back, priceless. And if there is anything left over repair this shelter hit by the wind Monday morning. What do I gain from all this hard work? Good health and body, a mind that is always busy planning and creating something that works out sometimes and sometimes doesn't but is always clicking even in my sleep, always good fresh food, feeling needed by a bunch of goats and sheep that depend on me, a reason to get up and get out every morning even if I don't feel like it. I've got to climb that mountain every day and I'll never get to the top, but like the song says, "It's the climb".