One of the benefits of being in isolation due to Covid is that I've had plenty of time to rediscover the things I use to love to do. I know I haven't written here in a long time but I've been around. In my last post I mentioned I finally graduated with my Ph.D. after 15 years of being in college. After that I basically shut my computer and went off to have fun for a bit. Now that I have finished such a huge achievement I can relax and live again.
It's been years since I've binge watched an entire TV series. I use to love movies and TV but the past three years I haven't had time with my dissertation always looming over me. I watched an entire movie for the first time in a year and a half. Since August, I finally got to watch Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Schitt's Creek, The Haunting of Bly Manner, and The 100. Being in isolation, I've watched more television that I have in years. It's been really nice to lose myself in a story.
I got tired of seeing those gray hairs popping up everywhere. One of the benefits of being in social isolation is I could experiment a little. I went purple for a few weeks using a temporary dye. Then, I went blue. At the moment I am enjoying black. My hair in naturally brown but over the years as I get more gray the brown looks very light. It's nice having super dark hair with no gray for a while.
I had no idea Tennessee could get so much rain in summer. We had so much rain it destroyed most of my crops by causing lots of rot on leaves. I got only one tomato out of 20 plants, extremely small potatoes, and my corn grew short and the corn cobs grew only a few inches long.
I'm still in denial my baby turned 4 in September. She's so much fun to be around. I've spent my time in isolation enjoying her and how cute she is at this age. Right now she's very into princess dresses and her toy dump truck. She's both a girly girl and a tomboy.
I'm still tending to my feathered friends. Back in March I hatched my first ducklings and my flock grew from 6 to 14. My two blind ducks Pip and Puddles are both in the house right now. They somehow caught upper respiratory infections and are enjoying the warmth of the house. They will be fine and are taking their medicine. I really enjoy my ducks and am glad to spend time with them.
I've been working really hard trying to build a brand for my homestead revolving around my ducks. Since March, with all the Covid shutdowns and now just staying home in self-isolation I'm focusing my energy on building something with our homestead. Back in March I actually had a waiting list for hatching eggs and ducklings because people thought my ducks were so beautiful. Next spring I'll be hatching ducklings again and hope to sell hatching eggs online. I figured marketing my homestead on FB, Pinterest, etc was a good start to building something. I've written a lot of blog articles, DIY posts, etc all tied to my homesteading pages.
Now that I'm done with school I am writing again because I want to and for fun. I've mainly been over on Hubpages these days. Pretty much every article I post gets featured and I'm getting a lot of traffic so hopefully that translates into a nice passive income. I've been doing the freelance writing thing as well trying to earn some type of income while Covid is ruining the job market. It stinks I got my Ph.D. right after Covid started. Local colleges have all experienced financial cutbacks and aren't hiring but downsizing. So at the moment my degree I worked so hard on is useless. In the meantime I check the job boards everyday and do as much freelancing as I can.
Well, that's a brief update on life. 2020 has been a crazy year and there is so much I could write about. Maybe I will at some point now that I can have fun as a writer again.
