Quiet Sunday

Checked on my chicken connection today, good news is that I have pretty much what I need to get started. Bad news is that I have to wait for my husband to build a new garden shed before I can take over the old one. I was hot to trot on getting the tin shed started and he put the brakes on me, darn it. Oh, well. The kids seem really excited by the whole thing and weren't afraid when confronted by 30 or so chickens!!!

Yipee!

The other half didn't say no to the chicken idea!! I spoke with my friend and it sounds like it could be a great addition to our little acreage. We have acres of just land. A ton of our land is just yard and some garden. I do believe it is time to become a hobby farm. We've spent the past 6 years fixing up the house and now that it's all but done except for little details, I think I'm ready for the outside stuff. The kids are bigger and can help more with the big garden and even with chickens and when I told them, they seemed really excited. That is, until one of them gets pecked!

Well, I know what we are going to be doing today....... It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining and it's not bone cold, we are going to scope out where to put the coop.

Children and Chickens

All right, I'm beginning to learn that wisdom does come with age, but not when it's to a 13 year old boy. He's supposed to be confirmed in March and since I just started him with religious education, he's a little behind the other kids. We're basically fast tracking him to where his age group needs to be. Well I asked him yesterday, if he had met a certain requirement and he told me, that no, he hadn't done it yet. I spoke with his R.E. teacher and according to her, YES!!! he had. How can you forget your first confession????? I just shook my head and chalk it up to hormones and the changing of a boy into a mini man.

Finding info on chickens is a little harder than I thought. The biggest problem is there is too much information and trying to sort out what would accommodate our families needs is daunting. I'm going to call my friend after lunch and get the real answers. Hopefully, she can give me the perfect answers and I can present it to my husband in a way that makes it seem like a good idea. Then I'll put a call into my dear friends and have them help me with making a coop (since he's been telling me since I moved out to this acreage that I should have chickens)!!!!

Brrr, it's cold outside.

It is going to be one of those days. The 3 year old woke up early and has been going full tilt since 7:00am. I haven't even had a full cup of coffee yet! Well, I took a step towards "egg" independence yesterday. I called a friend and inquired about owning chickens. He told me to speak with his wife, she being the egg-pert! So, I'll put a call into her today and see what we can do.

Today is going to be a lot of busy work for me. We have rentals, it seems that we already put one of the three R's to use. We reuse our homes. Every house we have owned, we keep and rent out. The downside to that is it always seems that when something goes wrong with one, another is sure to follow. So I have to call a plumber and a dryer repair man today!

The snow can go away now. I'm over winter and moving on to spring, with or without Mother Nature's help. I have already thought about the spring planting and am determined to get it in on time this year. I decided to move part of my garden closer to the house and actually have a "kitchen garden". Before the main garden was at the other end of the yard and we have a long way to trek to get to it. This way, and since I have been reading up on the subject when it's closer to the house, it doesn't have to be as large and is easier to maintain. I'm just going to do some tomatoes and cucumbers and just little things that I would normally buy. I'll keep posting as the weather thaws and I am more able to dig in the ground.

Hump Day

Today is Hump Day and is fitting that I am embarking on a new mission. I am not one to actually start at the beginning of the week like normal people. This blog is going to help me and any others that care to partake, in the transformation of myself and my family into a more simple life.

Now that is easier said than done, so hence, here begins the journey!