Wow can you believe we have already flown
through the first month of 2019? I
can’t, seems like we haven’t even hit the end of last year! I have managed to
make a plan for this year’s projects. Making a list of all the things that need
to be done here on the farm and when I feel these projects should be
accomplished. Weather here has not been a great thing to move forward on much
of anything but making sure we have enough firewood cut as we have had some
major cold days and wicked nights, Rain too. Keeping all the animals dry and
warm has been crazy. Downsizing has been on my mind a great deal too. Weeding
out all our unregistered pigs and having a slaughter day. We have someone who
would like to have the last 6 piglets to start their own pig farm. That works
for us. Starting off with a plan will keep things less crazy and easier to
manage.
We have had three piglets
out running the top of the hill along with the goat. They have all but dug up
the new garden area all the way around the pool and my herb garden. They have
uprooted all my flowers and dug up my brick sidewalks which doesn’t make me
very happy at all. I had planted hostas and hydrangeas in my herb garden and
they are all gone. Knowing that the house project will be an ongoing thing for
a long while, fences will be the next thing in line for priorities.
I have already selected
my seeds for this year. Adding new seeds to the ones I have saved over
the last planting season. I need to replenish the soil in the boxes and maybe
build a few more. There will be a fence around the garden, don’t need no
critters eating my lunch.
For the time being I have
been creating crazy little tiny rooms out of stuff that would otherwise go to
the garbage. I have always loved building doll house furniture and houses. This year instead of crocheting I decided to
create a tiny world here in my tiny office. Who knows one day I might have a
tiny she shed to build tiny stuff for sale. I just love to create. I introduced
this art to my g kids and they have tried their hand at it. Until the weather
warms up enough to get out and do something that will be where you can find me.
