Are we living our dream?

[LaurenRitz]

I just spent weeks looking for a pair of pants for my BIL for Christmas. He's got some medical issues so his legs are easily 2-3 times as wide as normal.

You could expand into that area as well.

I did find a pair that I can alter to fit.

 

[Medicine Woman]

Sick again with a cold virus in spite of all the precautions I took to make sure the baby didn’t catch anything during Mardi Gras. The problem is it looks like I just stay sick. I had not been taking any pain medication but I know it will suppress my cough so I indulged a bit and popped a Phenergan as well. I have been sleeping better in the recliner than in bed lately so yeah… here I am.
Well a few days ago I started moving stuff around and found an area I could claim to lay down that black, landscape fabric so it’s stapled to the ground and I have potted plants on the edges. DH wanted the side of the house done but yesterday we put more fabric down on the north side of the house where we usually grow pumpkins. I think we should put another row so less grass on the incline (I am waiting for someone to roll down sideways from a riding lawnmower one day). So I guess I’ll admit I am after easy gardening here. I think I will order another roll of the fabric before I run out. In the meantime DH is trying to capture all the loose chickens before we plant. I think I heard him say something about planting 4 merlitons in some masonry blocks… probably for protection from scratching chickens.
I feel bad getting DH’s godchild’s car so soon. She went a little crazy… well maybe a lot crazy. She drove her car into one vape shop on one day. The next day she drove her dad’s truck into the front of another vape shop… intentionally!! Then BIL asked DH if we took his rooster (weird question I thought. I still don’t understand why he asked that. Come to find out, GC was around his coop and took some kind of offense at the rooster so she killed him but then she put him in her car and drove around with him for 3 days before she determined she had to throw him out. She remembered so she told SIL and BIL told me . It’s gotta be bad having mental issues. But apparently BIL and SIL feel GC’s son isn’t responsible enough to be in charge of the car so I got it back. I need to determine how serious the oil leak is before I start driving it again. I understand the 10 days GC was out of jail that the car never got a break. SIL was wondering why she found feathers in the car when she emptied it out. It would be nice to have wheels again.
I have a bit of potting soil and cow manure to fill up my empty planters to cover some black fabric and spur of the moment I noticed some mushroom mix to plant mushroom spawn in. I never did that except with a shiitake mushroom log but I am like a giant hobbit so I ordered some spawn. I had thought I would use a plastic drawer but I have been told it’s disassembled and broken so I’m planning on using some of our ridiculous collection of ice chests to grow the mushrooms in the wash shed. I figured I would just not totally close them off. I hope I can create a warm, wet, dark environment cuz mushrooms are really expensive these days and I don’t have what it takes to walk my property after a fog anymore.
We had a loose hen hatch out 17 little surprise chicks out of 18 eggs. DH kidnapped them and they are in the house while she is hanging out in a cage with a rooster to get rid of her broodiness.
We have a few small litters of rabbits and hopefully more to come.

 

[Mini Horses]

Sounds like freezer fill -- chicken & rabbit. Around here, it's sometimes better $ to sell them -- & that's generally for meat use. Unless a young hen, then egg layers. I've broken up 2 broodies already as I felt it was too early/cold for chicks. Next ones will get penned and a nest of eggs!

Ahhh, your further south & gardening starting. I'm close to it, another 30 days. I wait a little longer as I don't want to deal will cold nights. Ready to start plants tho