Oh man I love it when hard work pays off. I love that high I get, where you just sit back after a long days work and just sit. Doing nothing, but feeling (rightly) content- at peace.

I'm working on a project right now (a farm) that requires a lot of time and effort, but I'm seeing the fruit of it as I go and it's so much fun, even though it's hard. And I'll be munching on carrots, and lettuce, and squash, and tomatoes, and peppers, and garlic, and onions, and wheat and everything else I've got planted, in no time.

It'll be so much fun to make pancakes in the morning with flour I made from wheat that I grew on my own land.

I can't wait to cut this years wood, too (I heat my home with a wood stove). That is hard work, but so much fun.

A dear friend of mine took me out with his family on an outing to a road out on forest service land (the women picked berries while me and his sons cut the wood), and we cut all the wood that I used last winter in one day.

What a great guy. I hope to repay the favor to him.

That would've taken me weeks to get, since I don't have anything that could haul that amount of wood (he had a huge truck with a huge trailer- I have a puny truck, that probably wouldn't even have made it halfway his truck did on that road). And he didn't even ask to be paid. And he gave me a bag of homemade jambalaya after we got home! lol

Wow. I really hope to be like him one day.

(Eh, I know I'm rambling, but this is the journal thread after all.)