Well dad is feeling well enough to push the boundaries of common sense. He went out with my nephew to give the tractor a bit of maintenance. Trying me up the wall. Hubby got 3 ricks of wood cut yesterday and has probably 3 more waiting to be split and hauled in. All of it nice oak. It went down last spring in a storm and no one got around to it, so now he is getting it and chopping it up. It looks good and is burning long. I think the plan is to fill on the ricks we have ( I think 8) so he has a head start on next years wood. So 4 ft deep 8 foot wide and5 ft tall. Its a ton of wood but we will use it. We not only heat the house but a greenhouse too and all our water. Granted my dad keeps using junk wood that burns away too fast. This is all good hardwoods and apparently there is plenty of it. From what he said another few trees blew down in the last storm so he is taking them out now and they can season in the stacks.
We are going to go in the walk out basement today and figure out what I need to purchase for finishing it. It has to be cleaned out of its clutter a bit so thats a couple days and I think one more room has to be framed in. The cast iron tub is already installed. I have massive amounts of tile but will need more. Thankfully lowes has it on sale right now for .57 a tile. Not too bad. I found an old vintage metal kitchen cabinet set with a huge cast iron sink and washboard. Just my style. Less than 500 for the whole kitchen and its in good shape. We just need to get the basement done so there is more room to fit all of us. We are here for the long term so might as well get comfy.
My mom wants to build a straw house now too. A friend of theirs did and now she wants to build a cottage. Not sure how I will find time to fit that little project in but..... So far we have 2 greenhouses to put up so we can grow veggies year round, chicken coop to rebuild, basement to finish, rental basement to refinish, rental to sell, wood to cut, fencing for cattle to do, shelter for those cattle, expanded stalls for the goats, and a food cellar. Thats all thats on the big to do list so far. So somewhere in that mess I need to add in build cottage lol. Ah well. Maybe she will get so involved with the garden she will forget. My personal garden plan is to grow enough tomatoes to make my own sauces for the year. My healthier food goal for the garden this year is to can my own sauces so we stop getting chemicals from those stupid cans they come in. That and my tomato sauce is so much better than theirs. Only problem is I never get enough tomatoes from the 1 plant. This year I am going nuts with it and I am going to plant like 8 or 10 paste plants and see what happens. Hopefully I am overrun with sauce. Thats the hope.
We'll get it done girlie!!! 
