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<\/p>\nIt’s been a very very busy day around here.<\/p>\n
First off, my very nice husband was kind enough to get up in time to have our eldest daughter to work for her 7:30am shift. Phew. I may have been sleep driving if I had done it after the late nights I’ve been having. lol<\/p>\n
I still managed to get up on time though, as a friend was going to be here by 8am with his excavator and bobcat to get some work done on our property. Now that we know we’re staying here there are SO many things we’ve put off and put off over the past five years because we always had to get things done that would look good for resale. Now it’s time to truly make this place ‘ours’.<\/p>\n
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First, he moved our manure\/compost pile for us, including putting a whole bunch of it on top of the spot I’ve got marked out to become our great big garden next year. Yay! Finally! Can you believe I had a wonderful and fairly large garden while we were living in the city up till five years ago, yet since living on our five acres I’ve never had one? Of course it may have something to do with all the deer and rabbits we have around here, and the fence we’ll have to put up before I can actually start planting anything next spring… but we won’t ponder on that right now. For now, I have a beautiful spot for a garden with a ton (possibly quite literally) of horse manure\/compost just waiting to be played in\/with. lol<\/p>\n
On a side note, if you’re an avid gardener and reading this, what’s your best tips for turning very highly acidic soil into soil that won’t burn your plants? We have lots of cedar trees, and the horse manure, and the acidity is much too high. I’ve got some ideas of what to do but would love to hear from anyone who has been there, done that!<\/em><\/p>\n Next on the list he moved a small retaining\/rock wall for us and opened up the whole space behind our home. We cut down a tree and things are becoming much brighter back there! I was REALLY happy that the guys (hubby and son) knew what they were doing with the chainsaws when that tree came down. It was very close to the house! Kind of scary! The extra sunshine will be a good thing since it rains almost ALL winter. You want as much sunlight as possible when the sun does decide to shine through those winter months!<\/p>\n While our friend was working on these things, when 10am came along we zipped over to a neighbors house to pick up their one year old hens. They cull their flock, we do not. All our hens die of old age (or mink attack!) so this is the second year they’ve given us their ‘old’ hens. Our flock has now grown from 9 hens to 19, plus our 7 ducks. Our poultry ‘yard’ is looking pretty full! And then of course our 11 chicks are also getting pretty darn big! They reside separately from the hens though.<\/p>\n Oh, and that was another thing I had to take care of this morning. Up until today, we had the 11 chicks in a large guinea pig\/rabbit cage but they were getting too big for it so we moved them to a kiddie pool inside a super large cardboard box to give them more space. I’m really hoping they don’t grow out of this next. lol<\/p>\n So by this time it was about 10:30, the new hens were ‘meeting’ our other hens and ducks. The chicks were all content in their clean (not for long, all they do is eat and poop!) new residence. Everyone was happy. Well as happy as hens can be when you put a whole bunch of ‘strangers’ into their pen. lol<\/p>\n After my part was done, I finally had my first coffee at noon and only had a third of it down by the time I had to go pick up Alesia from work. If you know me, you know this is big. I NEED coffee and I NEED it before anything else in the mornings. lol So I went and picked up Alesia, and then came home and answered some biz emails, did some printing and more packaging, all the while checking on things when ever called to offer my point of view on how things were shaping up outside.<\/p>\n When I had picked Alesia up from work she asked if she could PLEASE make homemade lasagna for dinner? She was craving it. How could I say no to that?! LOL What a relief, I hadn’t even yet thought about what we’d eat for dinner today! Like I’d say no to the offer of not just dinner being cooked, but HOMEMADE lasagna being cooked?! Yum! I’d have to be crazy! It turned out VERY tasty!<\/p>\n To top it all off, after dinner she made an apple crisp for dessert!<\/p>\n Mind you, I didn’t get to actually eat the dessert until midnight when I finally came in from the sewing studio, but it was just as tasty at midnight as it would have been fresh from the oven! lol<\/p>\n And now it’s 1am, my dessert is done and it’s time to get to bed!<\/p>\n Until next time! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a very very busy day around here. First off, my very nice husband was kind enough to get up in time to have our eldest daughter to work for her 7:30am shift. Phew. I may have been sleep driving if I had done it after the late nights I’ve been having. lol I […]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/Homelife\/Fall-2010-work-around-the\/DSC8953\/1027000834_rjNg6-M.jpg\")
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