It's Not Always Sunshine & Rainbows...

It's almost always sunny, we have been so lucky having so many beautiful, hot, perfect days but I was really starting to let myself slip into a very silly, naive mindset that Leafy Dreams was so perfect that maybe we were the luckiest people alive and it might actually be all rainbows too!

Challenges always bring growth and knowledge and the feeling of accomplishment when you solve them, but when you're entire day revolves around something as simple as a technical difficulty with a power washer, it can also be slightly defeating. Leaving a day of work, accomplishing next to nothing which just sets back your schedule another day, letting yourself and your partner down, isn't a day of work that I am proud to come home from. Everyone has an "off" day here and there but when you're putting your all (very literally) into your dream and the people relying on you to stay on track are your favorite person and yourself, it just sucks,

I will be the first to admit that I am not an expert when it comes to electrical, but show me a massive HVAC system and I am your girl! What can I say, I had a hell of a teacher who, very patiently, had to walk me through how to reset and troubleshoot our roof units at my last gig, over the phone, late at night, on his day off... in 100+ degree temps, AND while my "boss" was on vacation, (If you ever stumble on this, THANKS JAKE for teaching me the ropes and more importantly, for teaching me before the boys!!!! :) ) Still, even I am embarrassed to admit how long it took me to realize that the MAIN problem was the power.

**In my defense, there were a few other problems that needed to be addressed before checking the power!**

After all, my day just started with a leaky hose.

From there my day was (likely a pretty funny) cycle of me walking from a water source to a hose connection, back to the source, to another connection until I finally re-secured Every.Single.Connection, started her up and got the power washer going strong, for about the same amount of time it took me to pat myself on the back before it went silent and my "perfectly fixed" power washer very rapidly lost all of its power. By the time I came to a final resolution for the day, I was tired, whatever the, slightly more, passive version of grumpy is, and decided that it was time to call it for the day and try again tomorrow.

On my drive home, I didn't have a single regret about today, about a half hour into my drive anyway!! Was it what I was hoping for? Far from it. But that doesn't change that it was a beautiful day to be at the farm! I enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my shoulders, listened to music, had a couple extremely cute visitors, and set my day up for a much simpler start for my tomorrow, and hey, at least I managed to hang our little solar lights back up on our sweet little deck! That has to count for something right?

I realize that this may seem like something you've heard me say before, but I am going to say it anyway!

Nothing that is truly good, and important, and special in this life comes without effort. Taking the terrible days and finding whatever beauty may be hidden somewhere in the mix of all that other STUFF and making that beauty your focus for tomorrow is lesson that, I think we all have to learn over and over again. Today was just another reminder for me. I wasted too much of my day mildly beating myself up for getting so little work done and a little more for being hard on myself in a situation where, all I could really do was go through the motions to find a resolution that I almost took for granted how lucky we are to be in the position that we're in at all. This beautiful site for our farm, the meaning behind the work that we're doing, the future it will bring us and all of the people we love and this beautiful leafy dream of ours...

It seems a little silly in the grand scheme of things doesn't it? When your dream is to grow, and nurture, and feed your community, The growth, is what truly matters. Every day, no matter how small or inconvenient it is, it is still, just one day closer to bringing our little leafy dream to life. I mean REALLY to life. It is just one day closer to walking into our little farm and harvesting our first batch of all natural, locally grown leafy greens and one day closer to feeding our people!

With that dream being one more step towards even bigger leafy dreams, whats one little day of "hiccups"?

Until next time friends,

Stay Leafy

- Amy