I earned about 38% more than normal while DoorDashing today. I have no real idea why. I have a clue, but even the clues don’t add up to that much. So I don’t know. But it was nice, and it felt good. Usually the low earnings are depressing, so I was happy to get to where I did, and feel like there was that tiny glimmer of hope in the world. I know it won’t last. It never does. Earnings are fairly consistent, but they do fluctuate a little, and I have my share of low days. High days are usually not as high as today was!
Tonight is an art show at the girls’ school. So we are going to be bringing them hoome, then eating and going back up to the school for the evening’s festivities. I will bring my camera to catch their work hanging in situ. Nobody else’s, of course, because of copyright. I don’t think there is a performance tonight, but probably an awards ceremony, so I imagine we will sit for that and the evening will be more than just a few minutes.
I need to either order a bale of hay, or go out tomorrow and scythe before I go to work. I know which is cheaper, but the scything daily adds up. So I need to really think on this before I decide one. We have a lot of cold and wet weather coming, almost like spring. It is almost like the weather heard my happy heart fluttering over the lack of mud season and decided to curse my joy. It looks like we will get a mud season, and it will be too muddy to till the garden, and too cold to plant the seeds. So it looks like I will wait a spell, though I don’t think I can go too long before it is time to get the corn into the ground.
I still have not recorded that YouTube video. I think I am happy with the script, but I am still so unsure where things will go with it. Not in the fame and fortune sense, but what direction the farm needs to go as a whole considering we are not really farmers, and I am not really skilled at much of anything. Obviously I want to grow personally while I grow the content of the channel. But I feel like I need to get the overall goal down. Maybe it is Prospering Peasant related? Maybe it is time to finally grab that domain and go with it? In that case, I have a theme for the video content, and I have a place to put written tutorials. There’s a thought. I will keep the farm site for the store and such, and tie it and the Prospering Peasant together to the channel. We’ll toss that around a minute and see what I think of it.
The best thing to do would be to keep short articles about what is spoken of on the channel, so someone can get the show notes and get the links and general outline of the show from that without having to rewatch a video to get the important points. I think I like that idea. YouTube just hosts. The content is split to the website and I can have freedom to do what I want from there, like mention the unmentionables that YouTube won’t allow. Not that there would be a lot! But I can keep the show’s outline and highlights annoted there. I can also do what I want with the ad space. I don’t know. Might be too much work.
If I didn’t have to DoorDash, it would not seem impossible. Just saying.
I don’t like this feeling I have right now. It feels a little like I am catching up. That is when the rug usually gets pulled out from under me. I am not catching up, but for the first time in a while, I am advancing against the current. It is uneasy.
I need to note, there still has not been a single piece of wood taken from the firewood stand. Hence, not a dollar made, either. I might try adding more signage and try to get attention from people as they drive down the road, rather than just as they are passing by. I forget how people are sometimes. Then again, I remember how I think they are at other times. Maybe I am not inaccurate in my presumptions.
I have had two cups of coffee since arriving home this afternoon. I feel a little worn from the day, despite the sleep I got last night. I manage ten hours of sleep, only broken up by a single trip to the bathroom before waking up once and all at 5:30AM. It was good enough by then.
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention up above, and I can do it here because this is no professional article, but rather my sensless ramblings, about the YouTube channel, I am carrying around the B camera and getting B roll to put into the first video when I do record it. I am trying to find things relevant to the script I wrote. I hope to make it at least a little interesting, rather than making this bridge video just a film of me sat talking to the camera. Next video will require a lot of B camera work. It will have to be active. Much more than sat and talking. Man, I probably should not have taken all those years off!
Alright, that’s a wrap up on my thoughts post work today. I don’t know why I am feeling like writing them down more these days. Maybe because for a minute there I was worried about losing my hosting. Don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone and all that. Maybe it is becaus eI finally feel like I have a sense of direction to send the farm into, and the knowledge of how to do it? And some resources to do it with? I am eager to see how this all turns out over the summer. I do have things to work with. No longer are we sat here with no means to move forward, when I can do it in so many ways now.
I am busting to do a photo shoot with someone. It is driving me a bit crazy. I need to work on getting some ads together. I also need to find someone willing to just do a shoot with me. I want to try some portraits, and see what I can do to top some of my past work. I want to develop a style, and I need to work to do that. Anyone want some portraits? Head on over to www.kelseybaconphotography.com and get in touch!
Okay, I am calling this an entry and leaving you alone now! Rambling.