Lemonade

Well. I'm making lemonade. The sale did indeed fall through. Our buyers could not get their financing. We had to scramble to get our kids magnet school spots back. I was completely devestated for a day or so. I've picked myself back up and am pushing on.

I've decided to keep making steps toward homesteading. I've decided to make do with what we have, where we are, right now.

I planted my fall garden in containers.
I made a flow through worm bag composter.
I ordered my red wigglers.
I've begun gathering supplies to make my own egg incubator.
I'm watching various hatching egg auctions on eggbid and ebay.
I purchased a large upright freezer to replace our old small deepfreeze.
I'm going canning crazy at the farmers market this week.


I keep reading and researching, putting into practice everything I learn. First small scale here. Hopefully on a bigger scale somewhere else.

I might still be a little sour about it but I'm still making lemonade out of these lemons.

Oh no...

We've had a big problem this week. The buyers of our current home were unable to get conventional financing. They have met with a different lender and are trying to do a non conventional loan. We still don't know if the sale is going to go through.
We've already enrolled the girls in kindergarten in the new school district, tonight is the first mandatory parents meeting. We've already put a deposit down on movers and set up the utilities for the new house. We've already spent a lot of money on inspections.

If I had thought of a worse case scenario for our plan....this is it.

An acre in suburbia

We put a contract on a house last week. It's been a whirlwind of inspections, estimates and daydreaming. Mostly daydreaming. I've been plotting the garden, contacting some of my beloved homesteading bloggers asking for advice and searching craigslist for a lawn tractor. I had no idea you could get all these attachments for a riding lawn mower.

I've been looking at Missouri agriculture websites, permaculture forums and checking out books from the library. What I should be doing however, is packing. The heat index is supposed to be 105 tomorrow. Sounds like a perfect day to stay inside with the AC on and start filling boxes.