Reflections of the past year and looking toward the future year, 2024 will be a year of change for me, my husband and the sheep farm. Change not by choice, but by force of events. Looking back through decades of life, change is not new. Change happens to each of us on a continually. We make decisions and circumstances happen that require us to change. Honestly, I do not like change.
The past few months, I have not been writing as much. I enjoy the writing process of putting thoughts into words, expressing ideas and sharing. In the next year, I am making changes to my daily life tasks to have time to do a few things I enjoy doing, one of those is writing. It may take longer to get the shelter built for the sheep or other farm projects done, but I am going to make time to do two things I really enjoy doing, one is writing.
Since November, my husband has not been working. His layoff affected our monthly income drastically and my future projections of having our home paid off before he retired. He has been looking for work, but has not been hired. There are laws in this country that does not allow an employer to discriminate against age, but proving that the company is discriminating by age is difficult to prove in a court of law. Most potential employers look at him and his age as a person who is going to retire soon. The truth is due to our home mortgage and inflation, retirement is not an event either of us is going to enjoy.
We are going to venture out into social media and start a YouTube channel. Saying older people or baby boomers are unable to learn technology is one of the biggest stereotypes than I distaste. There are many baby boomers that use technology daily, smart phones, smart television and the internet on a daily basis. Perhaps we find more enjoyment in reading a book on kindle than play the countless games available on our phones. Or we do not really care when a friend goes to Starbucks by watching one of the many apps that track where everyone is located. But we do use technology daily.
With the crunch in our income, it is necessary to give up on some dreams. I had this dream of when my husband was able to retire after the mortgage was paid off, that we would be able to do more horseback riding together. An activity we both enjoy, but have had little time to do together with his work schedule. Due to our financial situation at this time, I am going to have to sale two and perhaps three of my beloved horses. I have not had the time to ride as much as I desire, and horses are expensive to feed. The horses do not bring in any income, only an expense that we can no longer afford to pay. So in the next few months I will be preparing two horses for sale and finding them homes.
Not all change is bad. There are good things in change. One truth about change, is change is happening all the time. We make plans for our current situation, but we do not see the future or the changes that may come our way. In a month or two, our current situation could totally change.
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