To Blog, or Not to Blog?

I'm a little fuzzy headed with an oncoming cold today, so I will blame any incoherence in this post on that.

Some of you may have noticed that I have been on vacation from writing for a while.  And today's post is no guarantee that writing will continue; it's more of an experiment.  I suppose the first thing folks will want to know is what's been going on around the farm so I'll start there and see where we go.

Mindful Monday

There is a time in every man's education 

when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; 

that imitation is suicide; 

that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;
 that though the wide universe is full of good, 

no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him 

but through his toil bestowed on that lot of ground 

which is given him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance