Boy, the winter was a killer this year. So glad to be out from under the concerns of firewood, cold weather and the overwhelming sense of feeling goalless..!
Today Hope and mommy worked in the garden planting one bed of lettuce along with a few seedlings that I had growing in the house under lights. We also planted one row of potatoes. I have lots more to do....it will be real busy out there soon and I will wish for the calm of winter and the cozy wood stove that always brushed away the chill so sweetly! Now I really have to earn my keep by the sweat of my brow...while my husband does that at his job! No more cozy couch and excuse to
cozy up and get warm...I already know what I took for granted. No turning back now...slick...the seasons calling!
Mind-you I am excited to get outside and breath the fresh air and dream the day away in the dirt while planting and listening to what seems to be the realest way to live life...everyday free out in GOD'S big beautiful creation. With the fresh warm sun of spring, birds singing, Hope and I exploring in the woods, while enjoying the pleasant company of our chickens as they roam free about eating bugs till their hearts content. Nothing can be more rewarding to the soul than being in GOD'S earth literally. But the work is hard and busy. Commitment/Diligence is a have-to if you are going to have any real food to eat. That is the part I dread sometimes. It is a huge commitment to farm and I am only one person. It would be a greater and easier operation if I had more help. But I will continue to train Hope and do the best I can. We all love and enjoy the gardens that the foods that it gives us. So we keep one foot in front of the other and keep going at it. Hope is learning how and that means alot to us. If you can give the farm life to children it teaches them so much in many ways.
Soon we will have a broody hen and 21 days later we will have chicks. I usually put 12 eggs under one hen that is wanting to sit. I secure her location just before her hatch and then I take the chicks when they are about 6 days old and put them inside under a heat lamp. I feed and keep them inside for 5 to 6 weeks and then put them out in a coop. Then I butcher some of my older ones and any extra roosters that I didn't get butchered last year. This has gotten easier, but I never look forward to talking their lives. I really hate it. BUT GOD gave them to us for meat HE says in Genesis. So we continue in HIS plan for us to eat protein.
We will continue homeschooling thru the summer. It seems the most natural, to keep learning and to continue to practice. We may slack on a day that something else is pressing. But that is the beauty of homeschooling. Hopie girl is a real smart cookie. She wants to be a vet...and her love for anything bugs and anything animal, at least for now, confirms her want to be a care taker of GOD'S creatures....
This is Hope holding Daisy the 80 lb. Bermese Phyton at the creation Museum...she is one fearless little 5 year old...unless it is a rooster and then she goes into a dramatic meltdown.
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