I bought something kinda wild this year that I'm not sure I'll be able to care for, unless I make sure one of my chicken stalls are available during the winter to double duty as a mini greenhouse. Its coffee beans. Was thinking I'd make myself an outdoor bathing area, with a privacy screen of some sort and have the coffee plants in very large planters around it....unless that will be where I am putting the wild roses. Anyway, I need a location to winter the coffee plants. I pretty much never have a winter, but we do get a few frosts a year. I'm starting them from seeds.
DH has been saving all our milk jugs to use as mini greenhouses, right in the garden. He started our cucs under the jugs. I have planted 3 tractor tires in bush beans. It is very early and provided all goes well, I might have time for another 2 plantings, before fall.....with the beans. Our compost heap tire has been completely wiped out of all soil and has been relocated into a corner, under a pine tree. Its good, cuz it used to be right in front of a beehive and the place would have been better used to grow vegs. Apparently we will be growing luffas and birdhouse goards in that place.
The packet of corn indicated it was good for a 12 foot row, but I don't believe in following directions. I plant the seeds, so that I don't have to thin out later. So I planted about 25 feet and have another packet to plant. Like I said, DH made me a tiny square and then surrounded it with a 12 X 12ft square. Well, I started making an L in a partial surround to use the other packet of seeds, but DH is thinking it won't get enough sun, and talked me into using it for squash and going furthur westward, toward the rest of the garden with another L of corn. That can work because I think when the squash will bush out, it will offer support for the corn, which works well with an Indian garden plan. We love squash. I smother them with shrimp or make a squash cake. I'm trying blue squash, which I got from Baker Creek. I'm also planning on using spagetti squash, which I love to trick my taste buds into eating vegs instead of starch. We'll probably find another few kinds of squash to plant before too much time passes.
I've set the temp on the incubator and have loaded it with araucana and duck eggs....and only 2 goose eggs. I think this year will be about improving my araucana flock and whatever doesn't appeal to me becomes my chicken meat or gets sold to my meat customers, who are pretty loyal. Looks like my Latin American customers like chicken and my asian customers like duck meat. I didn't get enough Cajun customers last year worth talking about, but I did pretty good with them and my Indian customers the previous year. Who is to say what I will get.....I'm depending on the feedstore not selling chicks to really do well with my chick hatching and I haven't spoken with him to determine what I should do.
By the time I get home at noon, there is no telling how much DS and DH will have done in the garden. Just gave my DDs a pep talk to prepare them for my work week. I very well might start school when I log off, to prepare them for tomorrow's lessons. In truth, they don't study as good when I'm not home and although they are good kids, they rather go outdoors and participate in the yard and garden than pull out their math and spelling.
Well, I feel I want to start my work week with a clean kitchen, so TTYL.
Hope the new job is good for you and the farm 
I think we're always living our dreams really. Every day is a new dream whether we recognize it or not. Every single day is full of new potential! Goodness that sounds so corny 
But it's TRUE anyway 
