Choosing the rural life

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I have WHAT in my yard?

I have WHAT in my yard?

Songster
11 Years
Jun 24, 2008
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OK I think I need a country life pep talk.

What with the hours I am working, getting SO sick smack in the spring when there is the most to do, and DH working pretty much all f the time, I am done.

I look at people who have nice big houses and maybe and acre of land all tended and I wonder why I chose this life. I know work expands to fill the amount of time you have, but ....

17 chickens in the regular coop, 3 hens in the recoupa-coop and 5 babies in the baby box.
2 goats
and a tank full of baby toads.
2 kids
an absent husband
full time job

Crops covered in weeds.
Ten acres of land -weeds, weeds, weeds
 
Deep breath. now, summer is here. weeds happen. let some of it go.
I understand exactly what you are saying.
And every time you think you are getting a system that works...something else drops into your lap.

Do what you love, enjoy what is enjoyable, and let the other things slide a little.
Live things first, and whatever else you have time for and want to do fine. My garden has weeds this year.
the greenhouses are a dump, and the grass needs to be mowed. it will be just as mowed next week when it gets done.
I did not get the beans canned this year. I have fed more vegetables to the chickens than to us.

dust happens, and it starts to settle as soon as I am done dusting.
I dare anyone to say anything about it around here, or they get the job!
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Get some edible and medicinal plant identification books, go walking with the kids, and find out how useful many of your "weeds" are! Steve Brill's book is especially good...
 
I can only imagine how hard it must be to do it all while working. I commend you for your strength! I have just under an acre. I dream for what you have.My lot is starting to look nice.Maybe I could ask the 10+ homeowners that face in on my property what they think. I HATE the fish bowl feeling,and desperately try to block the views into my yard. I feel naked! I fret every time my roo Jack Sparrow crows. I dread the summers when my back neighbor shoots fireworks into my yard,and pray nothing gets burned.

I don't know if I could do all that you do,but I sure would like to try.Sometimes I want something different that what I have. I try to be happy with what we do have.My friend lost her house and lives in a rental in a ghetto area.I know my home is paradise to her.

I have let the weeds go. I actually pick the dandilions for my rabbit.I do however pull the prickly ones out. Do you mow it all or mow paths? I once did a mowed path/maze in my backyard that went in a circle,and in the middle I put a playhouse. Loved walking the path,and it was more fun to cut that than the whole back.

It does feel good to get some lawn cut,a plant in,or a bed weeded. I take a picture and enjoy that moment of order.My yard is a mess compared to the neighbors. Oh well they shouldn't be looking into my yard!
 
Yeah, I know I am run down and a little depressed as a result of being ill and other issues, Most of it is tended to some degree and I think more of it should be let go to wild. But we do have a big chink now that is a maze. Every year we let a chunk grow and then BIL, who is useless for most things but oddly talented at this, mows out a maze. The kids love it. I worry about ticks.

The goats eat my roses and sunflowers and left the weeds alone....

I like the relabeling if only I had prettier weeds!!
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I am getting overrun with Sweet Sue.....
 

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