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Thank you!
would you like to come help me take care of them? 
Thank you woodland
Hi Dac!
Okiemommy's Journal **What I realized today about our journey**
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would you like to come help me take care of them? Hi Dac!
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lol After this "one" we're done. DH doesn't want anymore. Hopefully someday I can talk him into adoption
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Just wanted to update everyone on a few things. I have an U/S scheduled for Jan 5th. It was scheduled for Christmas Eve, but Jim got called into work. So now it's the 5th. We had a scare a while back, and I went to the ER. Long story short it was just a UTI, but they checked my hormone serum levels and they measured that either I am farther along than originally thought, or I am having multiples again.
I didn't get a canner for Christmas I didn't really expect to get one as the look on my husbands face was more glazed than anything when I told him I wanted one. If I would have told him I wanted a flat screen TV, he would have jumped up and left right then and came home with the "perfect one for our family with all of the right bells and whistles that our family needs"
But a canner, huh wha?? Ah well there is always Valentines Day and Mothers Day!
And if I don't get one by then, I'm gettin it mahself! 
I don't really know much about this self sufficient thing, and I don't think I'm willing to go completely all out on it, but I do love to make my own things if I can, or learn to if I need to. And I like the idea of not being so much of a consumer. (though I still do enjoy shopping from time to time)
I love the idea of having home made food in the pantry that I don't have to depend on the grocery store for. And I more than that love the idea of growing our own food that doesn't have chemicals and preservatives in it that make my kids and I sick. I would be ecstatic if we had a green house, but the more I look into it, the more expensive it looks. Do any of you have a green house that you didn't pay an arm and a leg for?
Well I suppose that's about it for now, that doesn't entirely encompass my motivation for self sufficiency, but it is a bit of a taste of it. I look forward to sharing my journey with you, and I'm pretty sure I'll provide you with plenty of things to laugh at
So now it's the 5th. We had a scare a while back, and I went to the ER. Long story short it was just a UTI, but they checked my hormone serum levels and they measured that either I am farther along than originally thought, or I am having multiples again. I didn't get a canner for Christmas
I didn't really expect to get one as the look on my husbands face was more glazed than anything when I told him I wanted one. If I would have told him I wanted a flat screen TV, he would have jumped up and left right then and came home with the "perfect one for our family with all of the right bells and whistles that our family needs" But a canner, huh wha?? Ah well there is always Valentines Day and Mothers Day!
And if I don't get one by then, I'm gettin it mahself! I don't really know much about this self sufficient thing, and I don't think I'm willing to go completely all out on it, but I do love to make my own things if I can, or learn to if I need to. And I like the idea of not being so much of a consumer. (though I still do enjoy shopping from time to time)
I love the idea of having home made food in the pantry that I don't have to depend on the grocery store for. And I more than that love the idea of growing our own food that doesn't have chemicals and preservatives in it that make my kids and I sick. I would be ecstatic if we had a green house, but the more I look into it, the more expensive it looks. Do any of you have a green house that you didn't pay an arm and a leg for?
Well I suppose that's about it for now, that doesn't entirely encompass my motivation for self sufficiency, but it is a bit of a taste of it. I look forward to sharing my journey with you, and I'm pretty sure I'll provide you with plenty of things to laugh at
dacjohns
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Cetta,
Self sufficiency is different for each of us. You don't have to go all out. Just do what is comfortable for you. If all you have is container garden, a chicken, a store up extra groceries you are being self sufficient.
Maybe you need to show your husband some pictures of the canner you want.
I don't know if I would wish multiples for you. Whatever comes I'm sure you will be happy.
Self sufficiency is different for each of us. You don't have to go all out. Just do what is comfortable for you. If all you have is container garden, a chicken, a store up extra groceries you are being self sufficient.
Maybe you need to show your husband some pictures of the canner you want.
I don't know if I would wish multiples for you. Whatever comes I'm sure you will be happy.
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congrats on all moving along fine for you and the baby or is it (babies?-LOL)
yea Tony would be able to pick a flat screen tv with his eyes closed also! no thinking there, it is all researched for when I say, go buy one..won't be any time soon.HA HA
Dacs is right.
SS is different for all of us. Key being, take it to the level that helps your family, you can give time to it without it being a total time drain on you, etc. etc. Being SS takes time, lol, to grow food, prepare and store food, etc. Hanging laundry on the line saving that power and lightening that bill.
So what works best for you.
Hmm....a cheap greenhouse.....that also can be taken to any level. Cassandra is experimenting with bags of soil, cut open and laid flat, add lettuce seeds and grow. She has them on a table with a pole in the middle and draped plastic over them......so there are ways to grow things. You never have to have "stuff" to grow and produce. My FIL's cold frames are about 1 foot dug into the ground...a rectangle, add cabbage seeds and an old window on top and boom, instant cold frame to start plants early. So think outside the box without buying stuff to be SS.....SS means finds ways to do it free..HA HA to me at least..LOL
yea Tony would be able to pick a flat screen tv with his eyes closed also! no thinking there, it is all researched for when I say, go buy one..won't be any time soon.HA HA
Dacs is right.
SS is different for all of us. Key being, take it to the level that helps your family, you can give time to it without it being a total time drain on you, etc. etc. Being SS takes time, lol, to grow food, prepare and store food, etc. Hanging laundry on the line saving that power and lightening that bill.
So what works best for you.
Hmm....a cheap greenhouse.....that also can be taken to any level. Cassandra is experimenting with bags of soil, cut open and laid flat, add lettuce seeds and grow. She has them on a table with a pole in the middle and draped plastic over them......so there are ways to grow things. You never have to have "stuff" to grow and produce. My FIL's cold frames are about 1 foot dug into the ground...a rectangle, add cabbage seeds and an old window on top and boom, instant cold frame to start plants early. So think outside the box without buying stuff to be SS.....SS means finds ways to do it free..HA HA to me at least..LOL
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Good points guys. Me too on the SS being finding a way that you can do things things more cost effective. At least that's a big aspect for me too FarmerChick. I need to poke around on this site a little more. I don't know what some of the stuff you were talking about is lol Cold frame? ack lol! Is that a green house that isn'y heated? The planting seed starts in bags sounds really awesome. Can you give a link to the thread where Cassandra talks about that? Or point me in the right direction?
All of this stuff is so new to me. At least for ME being the one doing it. My parents gardened when I was growing up, but never really involved me that much, so I don't know a whole lot about it. My mom canned when I was reeeeally little, but she stopped for some reason. I'm bringin' sufficiency back
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All of this stuff is so new to me. At least for ME being the one doing it. My parents gardened when I was growing up, but never really involved me that much, so I don't know a whole lot about it. My mom canned when I was reeeeally little, but she stopped for some reason. I'm bringin' sufficiency back
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dacjohns
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It will be fun and at times frustrating.
You'll love this forum. Lots of great ideas and very little contention.
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Okie - My greenhouse is clear plastic sheeting stapled to the side of the garage. Pulled down at an angle to cover up a old small trailer that my DH does not use anymore. I just used bricks and concrete blocks that were laying around to place around the bottom to keep the sheeting in place. I set my plants in the trailer, and hung one of my drop lights that I used for my chickens when they were still in the bator. Like Cassandra, I have a duct tape zipper. This is where I store my plants for winter and also will use it to start my seedlings. Works like a charm and when I decide to take it down all I have to do is rip it down. It can be as big or as small as I need it. The plastic sheeting is kind of expensive for a roll but the roll will keep me supplied for a long time. It looks a lot like a lean to and its not very attractive. But what the heck. It works. Oh yeah, I use the drop light for heat for winter storage of plants and I have a grow light that I add of seedlings.
