Oy Vey - It's been awhile

Wow. Sorry. It's been awhile I guess. My blogging weekly is not going very well at all!

So.

Projects: 
Laundry/Office Room is no further along, but we've decided to work on that after the garden, wildflowers, basement, and a few other activities (It's indoors, it will survive in its current state).

Bird Houses are all hung. Those were fun. I highly recommend making bird houses for the yard. So far I haven't seen a bird in them, but I had a bird feeder up for a long time before even one bird ate from it!

Health: 
Still at the same weight. I have a fitbit now. Trying to hit 8k steps a day. That's easier said than done. I'm also doing daily workouts from http://darebee.com/ . Which I HIGHLY recommend! They have WOD (see below) - I try to do them every day. Today's I probably looked a bit funny doing it, but such is exercise!

And more important news! Garden and Chickens!:
Chickens are doing well. They are fat (big) suckers now. They like to run and jump in play (I hope) when I come in. They have lots of space and are rooming out of the brooder now freely. I am still keeping food out 24/7 but next week I'll start taking it away at night so they don't over eat themselves. Obese chickens would be bad...

For the garden, I'm going to plant this weekend. Hopefully I'll disk and plant wildflowers too, but I HAVE to plant my veggies this weekend. What sucks is that it's COLD. Oh my gosh, it's been 70-80F for last two weeks, 60s with rain on weekend, and this morning it was 36! YIKES

But... I need to suck it up. Because if I want to eat from a garden, I have to plant a garden... The photo below is kinda how I feel. Even though there's parts of gardening that I don't like... I can't say I'm pro-sustainable, pro-home-grown, or pro-Ag. If I don't actually grow a garden...

Honestly I think everyone should grow something at least once. If for nothing else, but to say you can and did. We eat don't we? Why not grow?

You know lately. I sometimes feel like we are distancing ourselves too much from what should be basics (myself included) ...

Even worse, I'm not sure we are teaching or passing on the "basics" or more so life-skills anymore. I remember having to take Home Ec 101 Class.  And maybe that high school home-Ec 101 class should become "Independence Skills" that covers cooking, sewing, car maintenance, laundry, money budgeting, navigating community utilities, food growing, house maintenance, and etc. That way for whatever reason, if we aren't taught it at home, we get exposure to it somewhere and remember how things get done other than using a professional service provider or running to a store...

I don't know. Maybe we are still sharing such skills, but I'm always surprised when someone says they can't sew at all or don't know how to budget, or can't change a tired, or can't get a plant to grow, or cook an egg... I might not be great at any of them, but I'm sure I (and most of us) can, or at least could figure it out. Hopefully the "I can't" doesn't become "seriously, I don't know how at all".