Changing goals and speed

[AClark]

Nobody has called to claim her, so I started calling her Sadie. She now thinks she belongs on furniture. Not so much!
I mostly teach my dogs to ride in the bed of the truck. They usually learn from the school of hard knocks. I'll tie them in first, and eventually drive around slowly without them tied up. If they jump, they might get a little road rash, which is usually a good deterrent from them jumping out again.

It's been a busy week. My kids are going back to school this week and we have all these "meet and greet" things to go to. Yuck. Tomorrow is official "Mother's Liberation Day". I think me and DH are going to go out for an early lunch, lol.

 

[Bruce]

Don't forget the baby!!

Sadie is a nice name, is she responding to it?

 

[Baymule]

Looks like you got yourself a good dog! enjoy that lunch, we just got a bunch of Burger King coupons in the mail, be glad to share with you! You could get 2 bacon cheeseburgers, 1 small fries and 1 small drink for only $4!!! Just get 2 straws and enjoy your lunch!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Like the name and ya need to Enjoy yourself....ya sure deserve it!!

 

[AClark]

You know what I did today? Nothing at all. I sent my kids off to school, went back to bed, watched TV and played with the baby. I was also very pleased to get a shower without anyone flushing the toilet or turning on the sink to dump ice cold water all over me and suck all the pressure.

Tomorrow, back to normal schedule. It sure felt great to do nothing today though, I needed the down time.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Yeh.....even the "Everyready Bunny" has to recharge every so often....it is good to "Catch" your breath, before the legs start "Running" again....

 

[HomeOnTheRange]

Glad you got to take a Day! Plus I bet it was fun to spend some quality time with your baby...

 

[Baymule]

We have to do that here from time to time. We work outside, we run all over the place, we keep the 3 grand daughters, sometimes the oldest brings a friend or two. We don't know how we ever worked outside jobs-we're busy all the time. A rainy weekend almost drove me nuts, but I cleaned out a closet, purged a filing cabinet and cleaned off my drop front desk. Time off is a luxury, glad you got some down time.

 

[AClark]

Funny you bring up the filing cabinet. Filing is one of my most hated chores. I hated it when I had an outside job, and I still hate it. My filing cabinet is an unholy mess right now, and nothing is organized. I mean "I" can find stuff in it, but if I died tomorrow, everyone else would be lost.
My desk was clean until I pulled out the last 2 months of receipts and put them on my desk...yikes. I'll get through them though and file them away in their special binder. I keep originals and I make a copy of each one, by quarter, just in the event one goes missing. I also mark the copied page the receipt is on in my workbook so if I ever need to reference it, I have the receipt # and what page to find it on.
Why do that much extra? Because I have been audited by the IRS before. My ex husband "forgot" to give me the tax form for a Roth IRA (that he had and I didn't know about) so it never got claimed, and 5 years later, slapped with an audit and a huge interest charge.

So, since I had a lazy day I had to play catch up this morning. Ran to the feed store, post office, and NAPA, and it only took me less than an hour to get everything done. That's a first. Considering at least 15-20 minutes of that is drive time each way, I feel accomplished.

Now to sit and do some accounting. Since I'm filing schedule F this year and have tax exemption, I've made a workbook to ease the process. Of course, I have to input all my receipts and whatnot, but it's going to make it easier. I'm starting to read into how to file Schedule F so I don't have to take it to a CPA. I've been filing my taxes on my own for years so I think I'm going to be capable of doing it, but I do need a little professional assistance because I have questions. I was actually in college to become a CPA, but I found it too confusing with credits and debits the way they explained it and I couldn't comprehend. I have since learned it on my own, but I was never going to be able to hack college for it and I knew it after 1 semester.
I can do basic accounting no problem, without Quickbooks, but handwritten books baffled me. The saying "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS" comes to mind.

Of course, if anyone else ever needs an Excel workbook for these kind of things, I am more than happy to make templates and share. I find it a lot easier to make it auto total everything I need, and of course I can offer support on how to function things.

Hopefully we are going to finish the big chicken coop tonight. They have seriously outgrown their little one, but still cram up in there, so they need more space. They should start laying any time now. My quail were laying well for awhile and just suddenly stopped, so I'm going to move them into the smaller chicken coop after we get the new one built and give them more ground space as well.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I got in trouble with the IRS, so I will sit idle on this and keep my..........I took several accounting courses, but that was back in the 70s and the laws have surely changed since then, so I will just wish ya luck with it....