Life and times of a new farmer/homesteader
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How's it going? I'm well, thanks. Beware the ides of March. At least if you are the emporer of Rome.I'm heading into town tomorrow, and as such I won't be around for a couple days. I will be picking up some of my bushes and my trees for this year. I'm pretty excited. It doesn't take much to excite me, granted, but I'm pretty justified in being excited about this. My father, son, and I are going to a local tree nurseries open house on Saturday. We will learn how to take care of fruit bushes and trees. My father will also spend some time in a seminar on mushroom growing. While he is doing that, I will be learning about grafting fruit trees. I'm not certain what my son has decided he will be doing, but I'm sure he will enjoy himself. This weekend is when I will pick up the last of my seeds, grains, trees, vines, and bushes for my homestead for the spring. I still have some stuff on order that hasn't arrived yet, but the ordering and deciding is over for now, and now it's time to get busy planting. I may grab the occasional start, when something unusual comes up, but for the most part I will be using what I have. The "busy" season is starting. Granted, there really isn't much slack time, ever, but as the day lengthen and the weather gets warmer, I will be spending most of my time outside. I will try to make time for the blog, e-mails, and my other groups. I will also make time for reading all of your wonderful blogs. If I seem to slack off a bit here, keep in mind that it's because I'm busy on the farm, and that I'm not going anywhere. Things will continue, just not in the same prolific manner I have been writing in for a while. This weekend, I get the rest of my fencing supplies, my trees and plants, and I will begin planting cold weather crops and starting more seedlings. Hopefully I will have my pigs in two weeks. I know that those who have been paying attention have probably noticed my posts tapering off. In the depth of winter, I was posting as much as five posts a day. Now, it's 1-3. Soon, it will be one, maybe more if I have time and inspiration, and maybe even one every couple days if I am really busy. I will be around. I multi-task well. If it takes me a couple days to get back to you on a personal message or e-mail, it's not because I'm ignoring you, it's just because I'm busy. I will eventually get back to you. In the mean time, I want to thank all of my friends and fellow bloggers for their kind words, their encouragement, their inspiration, their friendship, their teachings. It's not something I say enough. I can't imagine being able to say it enough. The people I have met here have been so great, that words can't even begin to describe it. I have met some of the greatest people here. I have never been a part of any back to the land movement. It's always just been something I have wished for and dreamed about. If it hadn't been for that link on the NoNAIS website I followed back in early December, I may have never been a part of this community. I appreciate each and every one of you. Keep blogging. I will. It's so good to be a part of something far bigger than myself that I can't imagine leaving. Every strange look I have ever recieved when explaining to people in real life that I really wanted to be a homesteader has been more than made up for by being here. By being among people who share many of my ideas and ideals. To share a wonder for that that is creation. Thank you for being a part of my life, and thank you for accepting me as part of yours. Here's to a prosperous growing season for all of us. May your garden grow to the sky. To end this post, I place a quote I first found on a dear friends blog here, and have used since as my e-mail signature: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony." ~ William Henry Channing Peace and prosperity be with you all in the coming seasons. Raymond { Last Page } { Page 16 of 181 } { Next Page } |
