Rounding second base, heading for third...

Tonight I went over to the mouse building. Shut off the fans, as all of the mice are now in the freezers. The silence was overwhelming. Pretty much tomb-like from the feel I got. I have no idea how it's going to hit me when all the snakes are gone as well.......... Man, I hope I am doing the right thing.

Originally Posted by Rich Z

Man, I hope I am doing the right thing.

Probably not, but but hey, you gotta do it sooner or later. Besides, you could just pull a Favre at some point in the next 9 months . . .

D80

PS. If you do pull a Favre, I got some adults for sale over in the for sale section . . . just sayin'!

Must be a really weird feeling. Almost like memories of graduating from high school - on one hand, it felt SO good to finally get out of there and to enter the adult world. But - OTOH - it was a scary feeling to know that everything in your life up to that point was to be no more - and you are entering a new phase, leaving the old life behind forever. Liberating - but still kind of weird and scary!

Change can cause a lot of reservation and trepidation, no worries. From everything you've described over the 6 years I've been around here, your life has been a never ending circle. What you are doing is such a major change, you're going to hear an "echo" for a while . There won't be thousands of "kids" tugging at you non-stop.

If you've thought thru the financials and are ok there, then go with the flow.
Sounds like you and Connie have earned this.

Yeah, it's definitely going to be different.

The other day a friend of ours stopped by and we were outside talking with him. I started feeling rushed, because normally I just haven't had time to just stand around talking for any length of time because of the workload. Well it suddenly dawned on me, no, I don't HAVE to be in a rush at all. I didn't have several hundred baby snakes to clean and feed as I normally do this time of year. We didn't have workers coming in. We didn't have mice to take care of.

Matter of fact, the only thing animal-wise really pressing right now is that I HAVE to get rid of all these snakes by January. But I've got until December to really start worrying about that problem. I guess worse comes to worse, in February I'll be selling custom cornsnake hatbands......

Put me on the list for a pair of boots!