Okay, so I am a bit late on wishing you that Happy New Year wish! Christmas came and went here without it ever feeling a lot like Christmas. I think for me it was the lack of snow, or even cold for that matter. The evenings chill here, but the desert is just not the place for me to call home in the sense that my views on the winter holidays were really formed in Colorado as a child. We did enjoy the festivities and all! But now that they are over, it is time to head in the direction of the next Holiday Season while making the very most of the year in-between!
At the moment there is nothing to announce, but we hope that by the end of the year we will be living with grass under hoof for the horses, and with a flock of chickens that is laying well and a bit larger than it is now, and a milk producer of some sort, at the very least! Missus would like to have some sheep too! She’s got this crazy idea that’s where wool comes from!
There is a post above this one that is to do with our new chicken coop. I posted that at my self sufficiency site; http://www.theprosperingpeasant.com which is a site I run and hope to grow a whole lot over the coming year too!
Jordan is off school today feeling a bit poorly. I have him with Kirynie now, and am free to type for a bit, but I will need to check on them soon as Jordan keeps falling asleep, then I need to go out and get some work done in the yards, as well as some laundry rotated around. But before I do, here are some goals for the coming year:
- Move to a grassy place for the animals and to cut our expenses on feed.
- Get our business ideas started and off the ground.
- Expand our animals and get closer to self sufficiency similar to Homesteading.
- Plant some garden Veg!
- Build our financial reserves.
- See some family.
- Assure the long term care of my disabled aunt, even if it means she moves in with us!
- Want less, have more.
- Get a car!
Yes, you read that last one right. We do not have a car of our own at all! It would be very lovely to get one that we can pay cash for, and maybe even reliable enough to get us out and about a bit so the Brits can see a bit more of the country than they have so far!
I don’t think I have come up to be a materialistic person. It is in relation to my own philosophies in life, but the things I want are to do with assuring that I live, not that I have things that make me look like I have been living.
Happy New Year, and don’t forget to check out The Prospering Peasant!
Kelsey J Bacon
