Macro Monday 10/25/10

Before I get to the Macro Monday post, please take a peek at something. The box right below this paragraph has my pic on it and says "The Good Mood Gig2 Job Search". Please take a moment, click on the link and then click on the "VOTE +" button to vote for me. You can vote once a day. It's for an actual job! One that I can do from home, around my doctors appoints, down times from being sick, kids, family and life in general. Thank you so much for your help and support! If you have any friends that are receptive, please feel free to forward the link to them as well. Thank you all again! I greatly appreciate it.  : )

And now onto Macro Monday's with Lisa's Chaos.

This photo was taken a couple of days ago. I tried with all my might to grow 12 tomatillo plants out back in the garden over the summer time. Not a single one did good. I didn't get a single fruit off any of the plants... Then this volunteer plant showed up out front in a planter! I've gotten TONS of fruits off of it so far and it's still going strong.

Enjoy your day! Smile ~ it makes people wonder what you're up to. :)

The Sunday Creative ~ Spiral

Before I get to The Sunday Creative post, please take a peek at the big box to the right of the post. It has my pic on it and says "The Good Mood Gig2 Job Search". Please take a moment, click on the link and then click on the "VOTE +" button to vote for me. It's for an actual job! One that I can do from home, around my doctors appoints, down times from being sick, kids, family and life in general. Thank you so much for your help and support! If you have any friends that are receptive, please feel free to forward the link to them as well. Thank you all again! I greatly appreciate it.  : )

Good Mood Gig from SAM-e

 Yes, I know it's a bit late. But after checking Madeline Bea ~ Life Set to Words, I just had to join up for this one before it's too late. The topic for this previous week: spiral. When I read that, I just had to enter. I have the perfect photo for this that I've been trying to figure out what to do with. :)

Check out the other posts on Life Set to Words for other creative ways that people have depicted the word "spiral".

So, without wasting any more time, here's my entry.

Endless Possibilities...

Now comes the task of planning out all that space! While it is going to be a difficult task, it is one that I am looking forward to. Time spent pouring over my extensive seed collection to figure out what I have to plant. More time spent pouring over all the seed catalogs that get mailed to my home. And lots and lots of graph paper for the planning of the layout of the land and where I want everything to go.

These things I am definitely going to have: a couple of chicken tractors for meat chickens, a chicken coop for egg laying chickens, some ducks or guinea to free range on the entire property to help with the bug population, 8 or 10 bee hives, and a couple of goats will wrap up the animals. Although I'm still considering meat rabbits...

In regards to the garden, I'm pondering how much space to give to specialty garlic varieties. After I get the spacing figured out, I can decide how many different varieties to plant. Also, I wonder how much space I would need for an asparagus patch that is big enough to keep us in asparagus for dinner at least one night a week...

Hopefully, I'll figure out a very inexpensive way to get a shallow 8-10" pond in the ground somewhere. I would like to grow water chestnuts to sell fresh to specialty markets. Not to mention, enough to can for myself. I sure do enjoy spinach dip! Yum!

Of course I wouldn't forget the "typical" stuff like heirloom tomatoes, specialty hot peppers and hard to find fruits. All organic, all local.

On a side note, I'm also considering starting a nursery on part of the property to sell edible plants directly to consumers. We'll see about that though. That idea still needs a lot of thought and planning if it is going to become a reality.