Good Morning Everyone
Todays post by me will be Gripping and Complaining so please bear with me.. ha ha
Do any of you guys just ever wake up one day and really regret something certain that you litterally had set in concrete?
Then you wonder how ever will you tell your husband...
Well I did that certain something and every day since then I shoot myself with regret... For those of us that have been out to our place know we have a little bit of property that I dub the Welded Egg Farmstead on Four Little Acres. For the past several months I have looked at my property layout and see how much we are NOT utilizing the lay of the land properly to our advantage...
For starters... Our 3 horses(lawn Ornaments) have 99% of the property....
Second.... We have compacted our back yard with one to many "big things" that we have shrunk the space we have back there...
I would like a clothes line(have the materials but not the "privacy space") but because the spot where we could have it is being utilized by our hillbilly built wood shed
* Our Garden which originally was 15* 15 (previous home owners) grew to a 30*30 which is still to small for the food we normally consume and I cant make it bigger because of......
* THE COOP (yep the big main thing to my regret that is set in concrete.. ha ha) Our COOP and Pens take up a good portion of the back part of the yard just behind the garden and directly in front of the fence from the horses area..
With all this regret of placing these big things in the areas that they are in( Sure they seemed good at the time) is that it doesnt allow us to utilize the 4 acres as good as I know we can make it especially since our goal is self reliance.
So whats a whiner to do
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But mention the regret to ones hubby and get his reaction...
actually I think it was more of this
.. I think it was the approach and the sincere regret that I have that allowed him to be more sympathetic... So much so he got his shoes on and told me to go out side with him and we walked to back pasture and he said the following..
Here is as far back we could do the Coop other wise we run into flooding
I dont want to build a new coop we could hoist the coop up and cut the stilts(which are on concrete
and lower it on the flat bed and move it and make it bigger by building off of it. I also dont want it "lifted" to high off the ground and would prefer we put it on concrete padding or something of the sort.
* The horses have to much area which they dont need if we can fence the pasture right and utilized pasture rotation.(something I added)
* The Garden can be moved and expanded to where the Coop is located now after we get it moved to its other location
* The Wood Shed will be torn down and moved else where
* Clothes line can be put in its place that keeps it private from the whole world to see but yet get the sun
* I am putting in for leave for 14 days but hope to get more since I have to many days that will hopefully happen middle September... by then it will be cooling off and we can work on the property.... Anything else?
I was blown away at how calm he was about it all... but I think he was seeing what I was seeing after I pointed it out to him... especially when in our future we would like to have a few pigs... and a steer or two to raise for meat and we cant do that if we are not doing our place justice....
Lord willing come fall we may be doing just that as above... and
ya know what Expanding a COOP means right?! MORE CHICKENS... or turkeys, or ducks...
hmmmm better not push the amount of animals just yet.... right?
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