I'm ready for winter to be over.  I've got out the seeds, catalogs and even made a grid for my new garden.  I'm also starting to mentally plan what is going where and how to avoid any mistakes I've made in the past with my other garden.  Looking into organic certification, boy I don't know if I'll ever go there.  Boy do they make that difficult.  I guess the paperwork is over 500 pages long.  The biggest part is having a buffer against traditional farmers around me who use LOTS of chemicals.  I need to think about how to make a natural buffer against this and what sort of trees would be best.  So much to think about.  I want to grow organically, I've been doing it for 14 years not using any agency standards.  What a riot on their part.  Quite the money racket.

Tomorrow may be the day to start seeds, at least some of them.  Not all are ready to go.  I'll start with some flowers. Then in a couple of weeks I'll start others such as cabbage, tomatoes, certain herbs, peppers, etc. I keep gazing out the window envisioning my flourishing garden.

The chickens are in full laying production.  We are getting about a dozen a day.  We are getting quite a few duck eggs, too.  We went to an animal auction on Monday. That was fun.  Lots of goats that day.  I tried to bid on one, but the auctioneer I guess didn't see me even though the spotter had me.  At the end he was looking right at me and called off someone else as the winner.  I guess it wasn't meant to be.  We did come home with some hay bales.  The price was quite good.

I've accomplished none of my winter projects so far.