An underrated skill

Remember when you were in high school and your teachers and parents would get on you if you procrastinated on a big paper?  OK, so perhaps you were so well organized as well as a goody-goody that that never actually happened to you, in which case good for you. Gold star on your forehead and all of that.

For the rest of us though it was a fairly normal, and I would argue even formative, experience of our youth: learning to pull a project together at the last second and sometimes even acing it to boot. Well boys and girls, it turns out that amongst other things those “skills” have really come in handy in the last 15 years that we’ve been here running this farm.

Don’t get me wrong, no one here procrastinates by design. Were we to do that our brains, which are already pretty mushy by the end of each day anyway, might start to resemble the infamous pink slime. The nature of things this time of year though is that we do tend to get backed up against multiple deadlines and scheduled happenings as shows, birthing season, shearing, and lest we forget, our teenager’s lacrosse season all start to come together in one little nasty scheduling nexus. At times such as these it’s good to know that we still have the ability to pull the proverbial all-nighter when we need to, even if doing things such as updating and proofreading all of my sales copy for 8 hours straight holds all of the excitement of counting rocks in a gravel pit. This too shall pass though: the NAAS is less than 72 hours away. I can almost smell it!

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