Pie Crust Therapy

Reader Contribution by Angela Pomponio
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Fresh eggs daily, two dozen in all, thanks to our new to us hens.  Orcharding, poultry, gardening, root cellaring books and back issues of Mother Earth News.  Dated lists of seed starting and homestead projects. Budgeting for fence and water pipe.  Pantry clean out meals and those bottom of the freezer bags from the end of last season.  Spring has sprung in North Central Idaho, and with it a mix of indoor project completion and manic outdoor planning.  

The sunshine has given way to earnest planning and budgeting.   Trying to coordinate sprouting seeds indoors, last frost, rental tiller availability and cash flow to put up our garden fence is a skill set I am working on mastering.  No point in planting until the fence is in, but first we need the money for the fence.  I know none of our projects is truly life threatening, we live an hour away from an amazing co op grocery and Costco.  I want to do it all and now.  I fantasize about pruning the orchard amongst a huge flock of layers, broilers and heritage breed turkeys (coop is almost finished!)  I resent my dryer and gaze out the window fantasizing about a clothesline, yes a clothesline.  We agreed that the huge garden, fruit trees and berries, bees, chickens, turkeys, clothesline, woodshed and possible root cellar would be more than enough this year.  

I cannot lie, I secretly harbor dairy goat and pig fantasies.  How much would Dom lose his mind if I asked for a couple of lean to’s off of the poultry house for a pig and milking goat?  I don’t plan on much travel at all this year, I am living in my dream destination-imagined goats and all.  Why not just jump on in?!  I have been known to grossly underestimate a  project, and am famous at least in my own family for thinking I can paint almost any room in a couple of hours.  However, I am good at sticking it out and seeing most all underestimated projects through.  So if I research and acquire a porcine project or star thistle eating cheese machine…

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