Waiting for Results

I  haven't posted much lately as there has been a lot going on in my world including Christmas, New Years, a Gramma visiting, a number of hockey events and trying to inventory my current seeds and see what I need!  On top of that over the past few weeks we have had a number of things crop up that were disconcerting, distracting, and caused much distress throughout the family.   Part of the problem is that we found out all in one day that my dad had to have a colonoscopy due to unexplained bleeding, my cousin was hospitalized for pancreatitis, and my uncle was diagnosed with Stage 1 non-hodgkins lymphoma.  While waiting to hear the results of the colonoscopy (which turned out not to be something horrible and dad will be okay), it got me to thinking about waiting for results!

We have to wait for results for just about everything but in farming even hobby farming, it seems, waiting for results is way, way more exciting and way, way less stressful than waiting for results of medical tests, scholastic tests or just about anything else on the planet!  Even though the waiting in farming is often much longer than  the waiting for results in medical tests, and the end result is often failure (at least in my world), the outcome of those results is almost always satisfying in some regard. 

No matter if I have success or failure with my farm tries, I have always learned something from it -sometimes what not to do!  But sometimes I learn how to do something great - like keeping the Mandarin tree alive through an infestation of white flies and a guinea pig who tried to climb the pot to eat it! 

The best thing that I have learned from waiting on plants or really anything on the farm is that waiting for results is not always a bad thing!  It gives us time to breathe in between projects, plantings, harvesting, and snow shoveling. It gives us time to think about other things that need our time, energy and passion, and it gives us the lesson of patience.  One of the most important lessons we can learn. 

Breathe. Wait. Results!