Hopefully I'll be ready to jump back into work and craziness tomorrow morning. It was a cold (but above freezing) rainy, dreary, gray day. The rain stopped & it is still above freezing...34. It's also windy. I was happy to stay inside and not do much today. Made 11 bean soup and cornbread for supper. Left-over spaghetti for lunch. Yogurt & coffee for breakfast. The last of the Peach & Mango juice as my mid-morning "snack".
The broccoli is up but looks spindly. Dennis got the grow lights set up this morning. He also got the beets, lettuce, spinach & turnips in the ground before the rain started this morning.
I'm reading The Blood of Free Men. It's about the liberation of Paris during WWII. I'm shocked at how "dry" it is. Just facts so far, and nothing personal. :/ Hopefully it will get better.
Hopefully next Saturday, in addition to seeing Jax & his parents, we can look at a place in NW Springfield. 6.8 acres but inside city limits. We drove by it last Saturday...the house looks "rough" on the outside. It has a couple of out buildings and was obviously once a farm. Unfortunately there would be close neighbors, so raising livestock (especially goats) would be out of the question. LOL I only say goats because I found a website that showed how you could feed your family on 4 acres, and it included 2 goats & about a dozen chickens. Goats for milk as well as meat. I guess you could eat some of the chickens too, if a hen was broody and hatched more chicks. Springfield allows a certain number of chickens (like 4 or 6) inside city limits but no roosters. So the hatching chicks would be out of the question in this location. Not sure I even want goats, no matter where we live. I prefer rabbits for meat and their "poop" is great fertilizer. We had chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat back in Arkansas. It worked out quite well. We had 5 acres and our main grocery items were milk, coffee, tea & cereal. Dennis can't do without his Honey Nut Cheerios. We bought peanut butter and flour and cornmeal and oatmeal too. And salt, yeast, baking powder & baking soda & some spices. It would be hard to live without anything you didn't grow or produce yourself. I really don't want to go there, but growing most of your food is appealing.
There's a scary winter storm on the horizon for Thursday. At least our local weather people are making it sound that way. Originally we were getting snow, but now freezing rain. Dennis & I have got our emergency plan in place...just in case we get a lot of ice and lose power. We can close off all the house but the kitchen (gas stove...have the top burners for heat) dining room and 1 bathroom. I'll have to trust that burning a couple candles in the bathtub & sink will keep those closed off bathrooms above freezing. Knock on wood, we've never (so far) been very many hours without power during the winter.
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