Just Cured - Experience Fine Foods

It has rained steadily here for 15 or so hours, on top of much rain last week. Of course it has; I have a contractor anxious to dig the footing for our new retaining wall. They did start the trench yesterday. I now have the world’s longest lap pool for insects — 24 inches wide by not very deep by forever long. Goodness knows when the job site will dry out enough for the guys to get back to work. The forecast calls for showers through noon today.

And because it was dead still during the hours around sunrise this morning, the rain was accompanied by low clouds and just a bit of fog. It matched my mood perfectly. After the excitement of the weekend, I was mired yesterday in the details of getting this business up and running. And I felt like I was running in deep sand, a lot of effort and not much discernible progress.

In hindsight, I made good progress yesterday — I picked up a cutting table I need along with a few other supplies, I submitted a product sample for some testing I want done on it, I prepared and filed some government papers, I followed up on web design and hosting and our branding efforts, I corresponded with several people I met over the weekend. All in all, not a bad day. In the quiet of the rainy night and the mist of the morning fog, it didn’t seem like much.

And the reality is it isn’t much. My to-do list has surpassed short story length and is speeding past novella. For every item I remove from it, I add four or five. I am more than ready for this business to be up and running; it just isn’t ready for me. We’re close, very close; but I need many more days of progress at least equal to yesterday’s.

As I wrote this, the sun climbed higher, the cloud ceiling lifted, the rain stopped for now, and a light breeze pushed the last of the fog aside. And I am off to tackle some of that list.