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I sell my eggs every Tuesday. To be able to do that my chickens must be cooped up during the day. But right now in North Texas, it is grass hopper season. Free flying yummy food for my girls. Plus fresh green grass.

So I am letting my girls out each evening at 5pm and closing the gates at 9pm. You should have heard them last night when I first let them out. Happy Hen sounds.

It is time to plant for Fall. I will be planting kale, chard, and maybe arugula. I am planting in Raised beds.
I will also be planting red carrots. I was amazed at how well they did in the spring planting.

I am fighting grass competition with small trees right now. I am finding out that it is just too hard on very small trees. I am going to invest in larger trees.

However I am also going to invest in small trees that I put into root pots to grow for several years.

With all of this garbage mental sadness I have been dealing with I am realizing something. What do I want? What is my dream?

Answer: To create a productive small farm

How: Help and planning. Don't give up on the plan. Get debt free again and then budget in an amount per month toward that dream.

What will I accomplish: I will have a farm worth selling at the very least.

What I am doing today: My grand son is coming to help me gain control over the grass out growing my little fruit trees. I bought 50 more feet of hose to reach all the little trees and irrigation begins due to the slow down of rain here.
I have a handy man coming tomorrow to review the work that needs to be done on the house. I am going to start him replacing rotten trim wood and fascia. In short, getting the house sale ready if it comes to that. Hopefully it will not.
Replace the door and gates on the winter chicken coop...I plan to use that coop to brood meat chickens
Order 30 meat chickens and pre-sell them. If they do not sell then they will be mine.

Refill and plant one raised bed garden with winter greens, carrots, etc.

Spray my barn for spiders....yes I am an arachnophobe. But my barn is full of black widow spiders. I want that area back!

Spray the driveway with round up...yes the evil stuff. But I spent thousands on my new driveway and I want to protect it from being taken over. Again a selling point.

Long term...do dirt work to level a spot for two high tunnels with which to raise trees to sell and for planting here.

So in short? I REFUSE TO GIVE UP OR GIVE IN...NOT YET