Off-farm Income

I had an interesting day yesterday, and I want to tell you all about it. I have been thoroughly enjoying this holiday season and a bit of a break from my normal routine for the past four days or so.  However, even though I haven't been podcasting every day or conducting interviews every day, I am still working on the farm every day during this holiday break.  I had a couple of observations to share with all of you from that. To start, on Christmas Eve Day I wrapped up my work for the week and have been focused on friends, family and farm ever since.  We had a nice but small gathering for Christmas Eve at our house and then two Christmas dinner's on Christmas Day.  You heard me correctly, we had two Christmas dinners.  Here is what happened. As you all know, I grew up in the Central Valley of California.  So, I still have friends and family that live down there.  We had two different families call us to see if they could come visit us in Idaho during Christmas break so that they could escape the regulation a