IF ONLY I DIDN'T HAVE TO WORK!!-Writing Prompt

4.) 10 things you would do if you didn’t have to work.

Lets see what are 10 things I would do if I didn't have to work...that's a hard one since I am a work-aholic.

#1  Go back to the farm or more specifically stay all year round in Grays Lake.  This is something I dream of being able to do.  Go back to the farm and work there.  The pay sucks and its hard work but the view of the trees when they turn colors make it all worth it.  The closest town being an hour and a half away and the nearest non relation neighbor is a good 10-15 miles and the relation neighbor is a good 1-1.5 miles.  Everything is wide open and the deer wander up into the yard for a taste of the salt lick that we throw out for the cows.

#2 Open a restaurant in Grays Lake only open during hunting season.  This way I can see people but not have to worry about having a boss and a hectic schedule.  Everything there is nice and slow paced and the hunters would only need food bright and early in the morning and dinner.  Heck if its a good season the end of year party would be a blow out one with wild game as the meal and kegs and beer and just one big party.

#3 Travel.  That's an easy one I would love to go wander New Zealand, Scotland, and Ireland.  Those three are on my bucket list of places to travel before i die.  They seem to have that mystery that is just so appealing.  I think I would also like to go to Germany for historical purposes.

Wow this is harder than I thought....

#4  Open up a guided hunting reserve.  In Grays Lake of course.  Then I could be in my favorite spot in the whole world and not have to leave.  We have the deer, moose, and elk who bed down in the hay fields and just above the house you have the bears, wolves, mountain lions for those who want a peek (no shooting the last two please). 

#5 Operate a camp for stressed out executives.  I could run that operation to coincide with the hunting one and continue it in the off season.  The place is so remote there is no cell service and the Internet so having them get a way from it all is really not that difficult.  In the summer there is fishing, hiking, bird watching, and all sorts of wonderful outdoorsy stuff.  In the fall there is still all of those things but also you get to see the leaves change into the beautiful oranges, reds, browns, and purple (gotta love quakee pronounced qu-a-key trees).  In the winter the snow above the roof of the house so you can go cross country skiing or get out the tractor and plow a sledding hill down the side of the mountain and then go sledding and if you get enough speed it sends you out into the field and you end up by the icy stream where the cool water gives off that wonderful mountain smell.  If that isn't inviting watching the snow fall as you are inside sipping cocoa/apple cider next to a fire or reading a book next to it.  Finally you have the spring and the rains that also give off the mountain/sage smelled that makes it nice to sit on the porch wrapped in a blanket reading a book or watching the rain with the smell all around you.

#6 Go every year to the Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot.  This was something I did as a young child and it was the highlight of the year.  We would go on all the rides and sit outside the arena and listen to who ever was playing (I watched Tim McGraw when his Indian outlaw just came out I was 8 I think) and eat a tigers ear which was a huge scone smothered in honey butter.

#7 Fix fence.  A great way to take out all your frustrations.  Its an inanimate object so you can't hurt it and it won't try to answer or fix problems you don't need fixed.  Need a killer workout where you don't even notice your doing it try this killer work out.  Carry a 20lb bag of staples with a big roll of wire hooked to the belt loop a pair of pliers in your pocket and a hammer in the loop on the staple bag.  Then walk till you are out of staples walk all the way back to the four-wheeler and drive to where you ran out of staples and repeat until you either run out of staples or run out of daylight or complete the fence.  The next day either do it again on the same fence or move on to the next one.

#8 Cut and Rake hay.  Another great job for an antisocial person like myself and my child.  Sit in a tractor all day and cut or rake a hill (no baleing for me that is my Uncle's job he has the Baler).  When done move to the next field and when all that is done collect the hay bails and put them into a stack and if they need to go down to the valley load the Mack and haul them down to the Valley repeat until finished.

#9  Live for a couple of years in the backwoods in Alaska.  Just to see if I can do it.  Find a "foster" for lack of a better word family to take me in and walk me through the chores and hardships of living in a remote area that I have not grown up in. 

#10 Volunteer in a veterans hospital.  More specifically those who have no family or those who don't ever get visitors.  Be there to listen to their stories and all the or just them.

When I read through this list after making it I laughed because only a couple things do not relate to finishing one job then starting a completely new job in place that makes me the happiest.