so, this isn't a very interesting blog, but it's been forever since there's been one at all. We turned off our AT&T internet and phone, because they are ridiculous and charged as about $100 a month more than we were supposed to be charged...hey, we're poor and that's just wrong!! Anyhow, that's why I have no internet and no blogging. We're trying to kick the moving thing into gear...we can move into our new trailer any time now...if I could just make myself pack. School's going alright...I though I did terrible on my last math test, but ended up getting a 95%...so, i'm satisfied. I'm at the school library right now using their internet...I was studying for my Biology test, but information stopped actually entering my brain, it was just going in one ear and out the other (so to speak). M is being wonderful as always, she's talking more and can mimick words pretty well when she feels like it. She throws fits every once in awhile which is actually very amusing to me! She gets mad and sorta runs/waddles away from me, yelling, and then stops, usually hits the floor a couple times with her hands, or stops at a wall or piece of furniture, hits it, and then looks back at me angrily...It looks really funny. Then she's done. She's growing up way too fast for me...I'm starting to want another one. ::gasp:: But, I can't quite convince myself to try yet. Halloween is coming up and the Fall Family Festival held at my aunt and uncle May's house -- it's awesome and I can't wait!! I don't know what J and I are going to be though...M is gonna me a pumpkin. Then there's Christmas, which I love, but I am so poor that gift giving has kinda lost it's fun. Actually gift-giving is still excellent, it's the gift buying that isn't fun. That's all that's happening around here. C-ya.
Our first step towards the 'homestead' lifestyle: CHICKENS. J and I have been researching, reading books & articles, and saving a TON of info to our Pinterest board. I know we are in for some surprises and troubles, but we are doing our best to head them off and avoid other peoples mistakes. (J is still trying to convince me that we need to start pigs this year. I keep reminding him that is one of the PRIMARY mistakes other homesteaders have made: being too eager and getting in too deep, too fast). So, we start our garden and chickens this year - keeping our fingers crossed that we aren't putting them in poor locations. The chickens are the first thing branching out into our additional 2 acres. The coop and kennel are going at the outside, back corner of our fenced in yard. Our coop is valiantly being made from old cabinets we picked up at the local Habitat for Humanity, Re-Store. We intend to paint, add roof, prop up on legs, and insert s...
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