Farmer-Crush Eradication Program: Step 6

As I could have predicted, Step 3 (Spring Cleaning) never quite got off the ground.  Step 5 (Get a Life) isn’t going so well, either.  And since there’s still a whole month before the Summer CSA starts, let’s add one more step to what, in essence, has only been a pathetic 3-step program that isn’t helping anybody.

Step 6: DIY Project

As in Do-It-Yourself project.  Not Dig-In-Yard project.  To flail about in my so-called garden like I did last year would be to send the wrong message to the Farmer.  The message that I want him to come over and give me some private farming lessons, which I DON’T. 

Subsequently, there will be no foolhardy attempts to grow stuff this year.  Well, maybe some herbs on the deck and an heirloom tomato plant or two since they seem to grow themselves, but otherwise I’m leaving that to the professionals.  It’s time I acknowledged that I am a cloud of black death hanging over the living and, as such, my rightful post is in the kitchen with the rest of the dead.

My task, then, will be to complete the painting of my kitchen.  It has been half-painted for more than a year, and that, I’ve decided, is too lazy even for me.  I got off track because of a setback that threatened to derail the whole project.  But since when do I let my emotions get the best of me?  Never, that’s when.  (I still hate you, Brickman’s.)

This will probably be the last step of the Farmer-Crush Eradication Program because I have a feeling it will take me at least a month to finish.  Maybe all summer.  But, by the time I’m done, I expect to be totally over the Farmer.  Completely, 100% over him.

Comments

[Heather]

I should do like you and just be honest about growing food, but I still spend many dollars on fussy heirloom seed every year! The only thing that will produce will be the zucchini and quince tree. Oh, but I will try! I already have baby kohlrabi and chard sprouting all over the damn place.

[Ann]

Hee hee... I painted my kitchen two months ago... leaving two doors and some trim "to do later." I wonder if I will ever finish it?

My CSA starts in three weeks! YAY!

[gillie]

You need a kitchen like mine with high ceilings open beams and requiring scaffolding to get to the roof space - then you CAN'T paint it yourself and have to get someone in and of course you never get around to it (or never have the money when you do get around to it) hence it doesn't get painted but you have a cast iron excuse. The paint for my kitchen has spent the last 3 months in the boiler house!

[Tammy]

Gillie: Your kitchen sounds awesome. High ceilings, open beams. There's no place for the refrigerator in my kitchen, so it just kind of juts out into the middle of the room. I could go on. I'll trade ya.

Ann: It certainly won't get done during the CSA months. Your kitchen needs to be in prime working condition. Three weeks, huh? Lucky. I just sent in the rest of my $$ and sealed it with a kiss.

Heather: No, I admire your spunk. Keep at it and reap the rewards. No need to give up just because I'm a quitter.

[ntsc]

We just picked out the paint for the cabinets. Maybe by 2010.

Spring cleaning got postponed until mid-November again. Two of us living in a five bedroom house with every flat surface in the house covered in books (mostly cooking) or something to do with food. Dosen't every prep table have 56 pints of freshly canned beef stock sitting on it? Those have to go in the basement tonight.

[Sally]

I was going to paint my kitchen this summer, but after the living room, I think I've lost the will. The garden goes in next weekend (this one is being spent helping Della move!) and the NEXT big project is ripping up the living and dining rooms' carpet and finishing the wood floors which lie beneath. I should have my head examined!!

[melissa]

"But, by the time I’m done, I expect to be totally over the Farmer. Completely, 100% over him."

uh huh. right.

I wish I had a CSA in my area. :( the closest one is over an hour away.