tornado? wtf. || bits and bobs
* apparently, there was a tornado in southern wisconsin almost two weeks ago. i just found out about this yesterday and promptly told mister we're moving back to california where there are NORMAL things like earthquakes. then, later in the day, i found out northern CA is on a tornado watch. go home, earth, you're drunk.
he said tornadoes don't happen where we are (proximity to the lake and crap) and TECHNICALLY he's correct. but there have been tornadoes in the past that are close enough to here to make me want a storm cellar. *nod*
* mister ordered lights and a heater for my little garden shed/greenhouse so i can get some seeds going soon. i have to spend some time today mapping out when to start and when to plant all the things - it's a little overwhelming, but i'm up to the task. :) he's going to start work on my raised beds pretty soon, so we need to really have an idea of where they're going and how the garden will shape up in the next few years.
i found some resources on growing carrots that require nothing more than five gallon buckets (and soil and seeds and fertilizer and water, shush), so i'm going to try that with a few heirloom varieties. i'm excited about carrots! i'm not excited about ugly five gallon buckets, but i have a plan to hide them. =D
we're also now in the planning stage for chickens. yesterday we picked out where we THINK their coop will be and i should have some girls within the next three months or so. the lady that kid rides with will have some baby chicks for us, so we probably will go with her....she has fancy chickens and i'm not-so-secretly excited about having five of these girls running around in my garden:
polish chickens - aka super fancy hat girls.
then again, they lay white eggs only and i would like some colored ones in the mix, so who knows. maybe just get more chickens of different breeds? i don't know if mister will go for it - he's already said five might be too many. feh.
* things are starting to wind up for the pitch....i can feel it. now that winter is over (not technically, but it's over), plans have to be made and action has to be taken. there's no dilly-dallying right now. mister and kid are going to do a california visit in the summer (we promised her a chance to go visit her friends) and mister and his friend are going to gen con in indyansspolis the first part of august.
by the time they leave, there will be chickens, goats, and HOPEFULLY horses, so i'm going to be a busy little homesteader! he said that we'd hire a ranch hand to help out while they're gone and i might agree to that. doing THAT much farm work goes against my edwardian lady of leisure/hobby homesteader way of thinking.
* i have an appointment with a nutritionist today at 2 to go over some issues i'm having with getting enough protein. friends are all "drink protein shakes!" but UGH. 1) i am trying to stay clear of processed foods, 2) the texture is nose wrinkling to me sometimes, 3) they're so filling that it's sometimes counter productive when i drink them, 4) ok, there's no 4.
we're going to get some protein POWDER and maybe that will help in some way, shape, or form. all i know is i need to fix this problem before it gets worse.
* ok. time for a little walk before seed shopping and nutritionist talking time.