A new day great for dreaming!

Oh how I wish it would warm up already. I so want to go out and play in the dirt! I have bulbs to plant in my garden for flowers, and seeds to plant for what I hope will be veggies. I had saved seeds from my peppers for about 5 months, but none of them germinated so they were no good, have to get some heirloom seeds soon!!!! I'm reading more each day about gardening and farming. Can't wait to get our feet on some good land of our own and get some chicks and a goat or two. I am so ready to put this hectic life behind me and move to a place where I set the pace, wake up with the sun in my eyes, and garden and work on MY goals and dreams. The first thing will be to make sure the soil is good, and if not, fix it. I forsee LOTS of composting in my future. Then, for the first few years, the regs say 3 years before you can call your produce "organic" to sell, growing for our family and maybe have a roadside stand if we can. Let the Chickens free range, hope to eventually have at least 50 in 3 years or less. For now though, I would be happy if my garden grows enough for us to enjoy SOMETHING this summer! If that happens, I will feel like I can accomplish the life I so desperately want! I know it won't be easy, nothing worthwhile in life ever is. Raising kids is like working in a garden, you feed them, coddle them, love them, tend to them, and pray they turn out ok. Sometimes you fail, but it's not for the lack of trying. I look around me and see things to dispose of that won't work in our new home/life. I dream of a home that is rustic, no carpeting, just wood floors with rugs, bricks in front of the wood stove, I can't wait to bake my first loaf of bread in a wood stove. Hmm, maybe I should make a loaf today to start getting the hang of making bread from scratch. I have never had good results, but it takes practice and lots of patience. (and for me self cotrol not to eat the bread!). Off to work!