We hosted a lovely pasta night this week. Workers from neighboring farms in our area came over for food and conversation. It was a lovely night. The conversation was dominated by the dreaded economy. We agreed we all need golden parachutes and bailout money. Reality set in and we shared our views on the President’s economic policies. All of our neighbors, even those from the most prosperous farms are on board with the saving, planning and conserving philosophy that the first family is bringing to the nation.
Budgeting is now the in way to live, think, and behave. One farm has frozen all of its credit cards in huge blocks of ice. They couldn’t bear to cut them up. Even the littlest farm hands are into the budgeting way of life. It’s become chic. One of our neighbors suggested that we read Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. Excerpts were shared over walnut cake and apple pie and all farms have decided to read this book.
To stem the rising economic tide our farm has begun an aggressive marketing strategy. We decided we needed to talk directly to some new feet. Next week will be all about writing the copy for a new radio show.
Workers from our farm were invited to share a great vacation. We were sadly disappointed when plans were abruptly cancelled. We are still crying in our soup about the loss of vacation time. Life can be stressful slinging feet.
