SS Goals for 2010 and beyond . . .

[Dace]

Hey Lady, that is cool stove!

My 2010 goals.....

More chickens
Bigger coop
More work ...so that we can afford to buy this house
Buy this house
New raised beds
Complete the buying pork on hoof with friend
Complete the beef deal
Learn soap making
Work on my sewing

 

[Up-the-Creek]

OMG,..reading all this makes my head hurt! I tell you, DH and I have worked ourselves to a frazzle in the last three years trying to be more self-sufficent. In doing this, we built our own home and got out of that drafty mobile home(+tore down the mobile home), we aquired chickens and pigs, and worked us up an extra large garden. We dug a pond and stocked it with fish and ducks,..planted fruit trees,...bought a tractor,...started on a cellar (not finished yet), can't forget we built three chicken houses with lots and a hog pen in the woods,...along with so many other minimal jobs,. For 2010,....Im sitting down and doing nothing.

(No really,..I have a to do list,..)
1. Finish trim work in house.
2. Finish cellar.
3. Build a deck on the back of house.
4. Build a fire pit in backyard.
5. Purchase another hog to butcher, with an additional 50 chickens to go to freezer camp.
6. Garden,can,...garden some more,...can some more,..etc.,..
7. Have a new septic system put in ( should be at the top of my list,..but ughhhh )
8. Last but not least,..enjoy life and the family and do the previous list whenever I get around to it! heeheehee!!!

 

[TanksHill]

2010 Hummmm.... I am hoping we can get our solar business up and running. Now everyone wants to wait until after the holidays to do anything. ugggg!!!!!

Depending on what happens my goals may vary.

 

[Ldychef2k]

1. Finish the Adobe oven.
2. Scrounge enough planks to build a few raised beds.
3. Get a lawnmower.
4. Be a success at gardening.
5. Plant fruit trees and boysenberries.
6. Get a rototiller.
7. Repair fence.

 

[savingdogs]

Wow! Our plans seem so small compared to all of you, but here goes....

We acquired chickens last spring, I hope we can raise our own chicks this spring. I have one pullet in particular that I think will be willing to sit on eggs at some point because she has a real love affair with them already. We have a great coop/enclosure my husband just finished but he will have to build us a seperate section for the broody hen and chicks. Last spring we had chicks in the house for several weeks and I don't want to do THAT again. But I'd like to sell chicks, sell pullets, keep a nice pullet or two and eat the cockerels.

We also acquired two baby mini nubian goats that will be a year old next fall. I hope to breed them around this time next year. Our goal is to make cheese and goat milk soap. My goal is to navigate our first year with our goats and learn as much as we can so they stay safe and happy. We also have an abundance of alder and blackberry we need them to eat up for us. Portable fencing for this is one goal for next spring.

We were so surprised how much we love our goats and chickens.

I'd also like to put in a big garden this year and utilize all my great natural fertilizer my animals are generating. We put in alot of of plants here and there in the garden this year but did not do that well because something ate everything before we did, or before the plants even sprouted. I planted about 250 sunflower seeds and not one sprouted! I need a way to get around this however as I'm buying black sunflower seeds currently for our chickens. I want to be growing my own!

So I hope to make a fenced off little garden for next spring with a compost pile. And I think I need to start off more plants inside so the rodents don't get the seeds and let my cats hunt that area extensively.

We also need to build a car port and lay down laminate flooring in our kitchen, so that is pretty much a ton of projects!

 

[Ldychef2k]

Bee, losing 100 pounds isn't all it's cracked up to be. I went from 380 to 199 back up to 300, down to 199 again, up to 285, and now down to 235. I look like a Shar Pei.

It was so daunting to say I was going to lose 200 pounds, which was my goal. It was somehow easier to lose 20 pounds 10 times.

The first loss down to 199 was with weight loss surgery back in 1988. The early surgeries had a high failure rate. So the rest of the loss has been on my own. The second time I got to 199 I did it on low carb and became quite ill, lost my hair and almost all of my muscle strength, had tummy problems, etc. So this time I am just being smart, and self-sufficient, which causes me to move just a whole lot more!

No one asked me about this...sorry....

 

[hwillm1977]

So most of my goals for 2010 have to do with working on the house... here's a short list

1. insulate between floor joists in cellar
2. tear down plaster walls, and ceilings, insulate and drywall again.
3. replace 10 windows and one door
4. install flooring throughout house
5. tear out kitchen, build temporary sink cabinet until we can tear entire kitchen annex off house to rebuild (that's scheduled for 2011)
6. tear out upstairs bathroom, replace plumbing, and re-install a working bathroom (it hasn't worked in the two years we've been here)
7. Tear off covered porch, rebuild new covered porch that we don't fall through.
8. Build a 12x16 foot greenhouse to grow peppers, and warm loving veggies.
9. Build a chicken coop, get a few chickens for laying... move up in 2011 to roasting chickens too.
10. Fill all my raised beds with delicious veggies (I have 12 raised beds now, 4 feet x 10 feet) and learn how to can most of it.
11. Plant at least 10 maple trees in the yard.
12. Lose 45 pounds... somehow I think working like that all summer should help with the losing weight
13. Ride in at least 4 dressage shows, qualify for provincial championships.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Goals for 2010....

Choose my favorite 30 chickens and sell the rest.

That's the only goal I'm setting because it will take me all year to make the decisions.

I still have this same goal....but I'm now saying "under 50" because I don't think I'm going to get it down to 30.....

I did have more than 100 chickens (like almost 150!!), and that's down to roughly 86 now??? (plus I have 4 that will be leaving here shortly to go to my mom's, so that will take me down to 82.....so I'm working on it!!!)

I also had close to 50 ducks this year, and I'm down to 22...so I did cut the duck population in half!

I need to add, cut the rabbit population down by at least 3 rabbits.....maybe 4......

 

[Wildsky]

Wow, I'm laughing at how many folks want a milk cow - add me to that list!

I want to learn to process chickens - I'm such a soft bleeding heart that I'm not sure if I can do it or not, I'm determined to learn!

I also want to build a new coop, a small one for perhaps only some of my bantams or older hens that get picked on. :/

I want to find a great fantastic home for my horse and her buddy the goat. (that would give me the space for a milk cow or a HUGE coop) We only have 3 acres.

I would love to get a little more out of my garden in 2010, and I'd also like to grow a lawn back

Perhaps I can stop being afraid of my pressure canner and actually give it a go and can something.

 

[hikerchick]

My goals are modest since I will be an apartment dweller.

Learn to can what I can buy at the farmer's market.
Make a quilt to celebrate the start of my new life.
Grow as much as I possibly can on my patio.
Learn to live in less than half the space with much less "stuff".