A New Beginning
My health is what it is. I know my limitations, and I continue to strive past these limits every chance I get. I may never achieve complete healing, and I may have to deal with pain for the rest of my life, but I refuse....REFUSE to dwell in my pain. Part of the reason I have been so impatient to be healed or to at least feel better is because my husband and I have a dream. Our dream has always been to own a farm. Not a large multimillion dollar a year farm, just a small, self sufficient farm. He wants security, mainly: Our own land, mortgage free- our own house, mortgage free- some trees to put a hunting stand, and a few head of cattle in a pasture to sell or eat. I want a place where I can be, and the world can fall down around me, and I won't even know unless I ask. The stock market can crash, but my cow, Bessie, will still need milked twice a day, and my flock of chickens will need care even if the government falls away, and the outside world as I know it is gone. I want gardens, fruit groves, grapes and berry patches....I want my own Nirvana.
A while we took the next step in achieving this dream of ours. We closed on a piece of land across the lake from where we currently own a home. It will be completely ours in a short amount of time, but in the mean time, we have a lot of work to do and a lot of plans to make and finalize. To begin we cleared a burnt-out house. I can't do any heavy lifting or even a lot of walking and cutting, so my job is to burn the brush, and pick-up any trash I see lying around. The girls wonder why I get so excited about the coming weeks and months full of work. Honestly, it's just knowing that I can still contribute to a self sufficient lifestyle makes me giddy. We plan to do as much of the work ourselves as possible, only contracting what we absolutely cannot do together. This may take us years to fully accomplish, but we don't care. We are happy to finally be doing the work. At one point we will be able to move and then we can work on finishing the house and land daily more than just weekends only.
My plans for this summer are building inexpensive, temporary, movable raised growing beds, so I can still have my gardens. Something I learned with last year's garden was that if I want to do this every year then I need to make it as easy on myself as possible. I lost too many veggies to rot, due to hurting myself harvesting to the point that I couldn't properly store the harvest. Raised beds on pallets and cardboard will give me resistance to weeds, better soils from the beginning of the season, easier deep root watering and finally a LOT easier on my back at harvest time. Wow! I am excited to start growing. This season containers are not just for flowers, I plan to have a lot of veggies in containers this year, so when we move my veggies move with us. As soon as we have enough of the house built to live there, I am starting on my chicken coop, run and fencing. I figure, by the end of the summer, I should know where all the hot spots are on the property, and have a better feel for where everything will go. The chickens needs plenty of sunshine, but they need to be protected, so the coop needs to be insulated if I want to have it in a sunny location. It might not get cold here like it did when I was growing up in Northern Indiana, but the wind on a chilly day can feel like it's blowing right through a person, so I imagine it feels pretty chilly to a chicken. I can't wait to post pictures of my coop, and poultry, the eggs they produce, my gardens and the brightly colored jars of produce preserved for winter.....all the good stuff, and maybe even a few pictures of me working in the gardens- we'll see....So onto our new beginning.
Remember, talk to God. He's a great listener, and He NEVER tells your secrets. Take a chance on something new...Change is a good thing usually. But most of all......GO BE PHYSICAL TODAY!! Tomorrow WILL be too late.
Peace!!
A while we took the next step in achieving this dream of ours. We closed on a piece of land across the lake from where we currently own a home. It will be completely ours in a short amount of time, but in the mean time, we have a lot of work to do and a lot of plans to make and finalize. To begin we cleared a burnt-out house. I can't do any heavy lifting or even a lot of walking and cutting, so my job is to burn the brush, and pick-up any trash I see lying around. The girls wonder why I get so excited about the coming weeks and months full of work. Honestly, it's just knowing that I can still contribute to a self sufficient lifestyle makes me giddy. We plan to do as much of the work ourselves as possible, only contracting what we absolutely cannot do together. This may take us years to fully accomplish, but we don't care. We are happy to finally be doing the work. At one point we will be able to move and then we can work on finishing the house and land daily more than just weekends only.
My plans for this summer are building inexpensive, temporary, movable raised growing beds, so I can still have my gardens. Something I learned with last year's garden was that if I want to do this every year then I need to make it as easy on myself as possible. I lost too many veggies to rot, due to hurting myself harvesting to the point that I couldn't properly store the harvest. Raised beds on pallets and cardboard will give me resistance to weeds, better soils from the beginning of the season, easier deep root watering and finally a LOT easier on my back at harvest time. Wow! I am excited to start growing. This season containers are not just for flowers, I plan to have a lot of veggies in containers this year, so when we move my veggies move with us. As soon as we have enough of the house built to live there, I am starting on my chicken coop, run and fencing. I figure, by the end of the summer, I should know where all the hot spots are on the property, and have a better feel for where everything will go. The chickens needs plenty of sunshine, but they need to be protected, so the coop needs to be insulated if I want to have it in a sunny location. It might not get cold here like it did when I was growing up in Northern Indiana, but the wind on a chilly day can feel like it's blowing right through a person, so I imagine it feels pretty chilly to a chicken. I can't wait to post pictures of my coop, and poultry, the eggs they produce, my gardens and the brightly colored jars of produce preserved for winter.....all the good stuff, and maybe even a few pictures of me working in the gardens- we'll see....So onto our new beginning.
Remember, talk to God. He's a great listener, and He NEVER tells your secrets. Take a chance on something new...Change is a good thing usually. But most of all......GO BE PHYSICAL TODAY!! Tomorrow WILL be too late.
Peace!!
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