Another thing that put us on our way was adopting the mode of, as
they say in Gaelic "beag is beag" (little by little). The road needs
a well defined drainage ditch on one side where the road is steep. I
put a shovel and mattock there and every time I pass, I dig two more
feet, then quit and go about what I was going to do. A great many
"big" projects around here are like that. Weed out ten hills of corn
on the way to check the mail every day, put one rock in the rut in
the road each time you pass, drop $2 in the 401-Cow fund when you return from the store. Some things are urgent, but in practice it
turns out that not so much really is.
What I'd offer is to never look on any homestead operation, present
or dreamed, as a done deal. It is always dynamic and ongoing. When
our long time cash gig petered out and gas got to be expensive, we
found that we passed those milestones with hardly a shrug. Yet I
wonder were else we will go, so many things left unexplored. So if
you are moving toward the self-sufficient life, you are a homesteader
now. It's a process now and it always will be a process.
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