With my sister constantly telling me the world is going to end at any minute, I've decided that I better jump on board with phase one of armageddon, setting up my own blog. As you'll see with this post, everything in my life is modeled after my wonderful sister. My patience, my driving, my love of baseball all come from me seestor. Why not follow her footsteps in all other areas of life? So, again, here's phase one of my master plan to become everything that my sister is (she likes to end sentences in prepositions as well).
In all honesty, I do think this blog will provide me an opportunity to stay in touch with many people I otherwise may neglect on a weekly basis. If you read Lisa's blog, http://www.ranchogardiner.blogspot.com/, as often as me (about once a month), you will miss many exciting stories in the life of JAJ. I'll put pictures as part of this blog (and eventually will), but our high speed internet just got passed by a turtle with a donkey on its back.
With armageddon right around the corner, I've decided to follow my sisters footsteps and get 15 chickens. If the world really is ending, I really wondered how long we could survive on 15 chickens. So, I decided to step it up a bit and we also got a cow (they're so cute), a goat (when we're feeling like feta), a pig (when we're feeling skinny), and two fish (just for fun) that we're keeping in a bucket until I can dig a pond.
In addition to all of this meat and protein, we also decided to plant our very first vegetable garden. What started out as a small idea of tomatoes and carrots, blossomed into a pretty enormous garden with beans, squash, onions, zucchini, corn, cucumbers, radishes, pumpkins, and the tomatoes and carrots, of course. In total, our garden is 40' x 12'. We are lucky that this is going to be a shared garden with our very helpful neighbors, Eric and Kelly. We rototilled Saturday night, mixed in some lime and compost early Sunday morning and planted everything most of Sunday afternoon. Who knew a garden was so much work? We're very happy and thankful to be sharing this workload with Eric and Kelly. If it were just up to JL and me, we'd end up killing the goat in a time of crisis... as we're both skeptical that this garden will produce any food at all. Can't wait to compare my harvest with Lisa's. Even if I don't produce as much as Lisa, I still now have a goat.
In addition to the garden and buying all of those animals, I also installed a gutter system in my house. No, I'm too cheap to install the traditional gutters, but if a gutter is defined as " any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid" then what I did can be considered a gutter system. I had some left over rock from my patio project (still not done yet... thanks Jay). I decided to dig a little trench 19 inches around the house and then cover this with the leftover rock. It doesn't look the greatest, but it'll keep dirt from splashing up against the house.... and it kept me busy while the girls were out looking for vegetables to plant... only to come back with flowers.
As for Memorial Day, we'll be burning the trees Eric and I took down while we were bored this afternoon and probably look to take down more. We'll probably have some friends over so they can hang out on our back rock patio with us and our goats, chickens, cow, pig, and fish. Should be good times.
Hey, this blogging thing might be fun. I'll post pictures of all of my animals as soon as my high speed internet gets out of the 80s.
In all honesty, I do think this blog will provide me an opportunity to stay in touch with many people I otherwise may neglect on a weekly basis. If you read Lisa's blog, http://www.ranchogardiner.blogspot.com/, as often as me (about once a month), you will miss many exciting stories in the life of JAJ. I'll put pictures as part of this blog (and eventually will), but our high speed internet just got passed by a turtle with a donkey on its back.
With armageddon right around the corner, I've decided to follow my sisters footsteps and get 15 chickens. If the world really is ending, I really wondered how long we could survive on 15 chickens. So, I decided to step it up a bit and we also got a cow (they're so cute), a goat (when we're feeling like feta), a pig (when we're feeling skinny), and two fish (just for fun) that we're keeping in a bucket until I can dig a pond.
In addition to all of this meat and protein, we also decided to plant our very first vegetable garden. What started out as a small idea of tomatoes and carrots, blossomed into a pretty enormous garden with beans, squash, onions, zucchini, corn, cucumbers, radishes, pumpkins, and the tomatoes and carrots, of course. In total, our garden is 40' x 12'. We are lucky that this is going to be a shared garden with our very helpful neighbors, Eric and Kelly. We rototilled Saturday night, mixed in some lime and compost early Sunday morning and planted everything most of Sunday afternoon. Who knew a garden was so much work? We're very happy and thankful to be sharing this workload with Eric and Kelly. If it were just up to JL and me, we'd end up killing the goat in a time of crisis... as we're both skeptical that this garden will produce any food at all. Can't wait to compare my harvest with Lisa's. Even if I don't produce as much as Lisa, I still now have a goat.In addition to the garden and buying all of those animals, I also installed a gutter system in my house. No, I'm too cheap to install the traditional gutters, but if a gutter is defined as " any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid" then what I did can be considered a gutter system. I had some left over rock from my patio project (still not done yet... thanks Jay). I decided to dig a little trench 19 inches around the house and then cover this with the leftover rock. It doesn't look the greatest, but it'll keep dirt from splashing up against the house.... and it kept me busy while the girls were out looking for vegetables to plant... only to come back with flowers.
As for Memorial Day, we'll be burning the trees Eric and I took down while we were bored this afternoon and probably look to take down more. We'll probably have some friends over so they can hang out on our back rock patio with us and our goats, chickens, cow, pig, and fish. Should be good times.
Hey, this blogging thing might be fun. I'll post pictures of all of my animals as soon as my high speed internet gets out of the 80s.
4 comments:
Hey a goat is a GREAT idea - just don't tell dad that you'll be drinking goat's milk now instead of cow's milk. Goat eggs are fetching a high price too - up to $4.00 a dozen in our neighborhood, and goat shit will be a welcome addition to your garden. Good luck with all of that, kid. Don't forget to build your End of the World bunker too, er, your root cellar.
i want to see a picture of you milking the goat...
You are making all of your friends down here in Boston proud....keep up the good work Jeff.
Who the hell are you and what have you done with Jeff?
Actually sounds like you are still keeping things interesting up there. Congrats on the goat. My vegetarian vote is for you to keep milking it and then donate it to the petting zoo when its old.
Keep the blogs coming. - Cheech
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