Let's see, today, if time allows, I need to get out to the humanure pile and bring up several buckets of it to dump in the tires for the tomatoes to get moved to. One tire is done, but two more remain, before I can shift maters round about to give the roots more room, and plant some carrots. That's just today. Tomorrow, I need to also head to Harrison for more topsoil and a couple more mini-greenhouses. I haven't given up hope yet that everything I already planted will come up ... I keep telling myself to give up, but then I give it another week, lol. The flowers by the stairs are coming up like crazy. FIVE of the sweet peas are already up about an inch or so, tiny little vines. The snapdragons and marigolds are popping up, especially the snaps. With those, I couldn't get them to space right, so a whole packet went along a little line in the middle. They're going to be rather crowded but it's going to be a lovely crowd when they bloom.
I need to work on the bailer bucket (so far, I've gotten the spring out of the check valve). I need to do some writing/research. I need to photograph, describe and price things to go up in the Ecwid store (more on that in a minute), I need to get some knitting done on that scrap afghan which is mostly sitting except on Saturdays because it's my travel project (it's not that big yet, so I drag it along). I need to clean out the fridge, get the hubster to start up the gas weed whacker for me so I can finish chopping down weeds, because he was SOOOO busy with the van again yesterday that nothing that needed doing got done - he "had" to fix his baja lights because one wasn't working right ... how about spending an hour chopping weeds that are waist high and need "fixing" more?
The blog has taken a turn for the better in design, I think. I reworked the layout some, and figured out how to do pages on it and get them to show up. I'd've gotten that done sooner, but it wasn't priority on the to-do list at that point, this past weekend it was, so much of Sunday's hot and muggy temperatures got spent with me on the laptop, messing around and figuring out what I want to do and how. So it's got a new look, new pages, some of which have little to nothing on them, but that's going to change over time. The Events page will get things added as stuff happens, and the Recommended Products page will be for all my affiliate links to various homestead and craft-related things where I make a tiny bit of money if someone shops there or buys that product. I love homesteading, but it's got to become a living if plans are to come to fruition.
You'll also notice an About Us page, where I describe what Bountiful Farm is about and some of what is in the works. If it's on there and labeled "in development," you can bet that it's something I'll be working on. There is also, finally, a webstore I'm happy with. One I don't have to fuss around with HTML for the design, other than to put a bit of provided code on the page itself. This is very good for me, because I can concentrate on products rather than site design. I've finally chosen Ecwid. I've tried others, goodness knows, but they aren't working too well.
Etsy integrates with Facebook (a must, in my opinion) but charges per item for listing and if you have digital products, they only allow five unless you pay a monthly fee for somebody's widget. Bonanza doesn't integrate and it's kind of complicated to get an item up. Selz integrates but you can't do much of anything with design. So someone suggested Ecwid. Easy to design, heck they hold your hand to walk you through it, and you can list up to 10 items for nothing, or 100 items for $12.50 a month. For $29.50 a month, you can list up to 2500 items. Yep, found the store. It integrates well with both the blog and Facebook, and even has a setup in the thing so that your items can have Facebook comments allowed, and like buttons and counters for about five or six different social media outlets, so things can easily be shared round as well. Time to get business cards!!!!!!
I am really hoping that sooner or later, I can find a decent small RV to live in whilst land is being prepped and a cabin put together. I can run a generator for big power, propane for heat/cooking/hot water, haul in water, and get a small solar system from Harbor Freight to generate power for charging up the laptop and cellphone and modem/router. I don't watch much TV, and once I get a new laptop, really won't because it will have a DVD player in it ... thus eliminating the need for a TV entirely. I like TVs because of the bigger screen, but I rarely "watch" and mostly just listen. So pop in a DVD, do other work while I'm at it, and if I really want to watch-watch, I can do something like knitting or crochet which take next to no attention at all, as long as I've been doing them. (Thank you, Grandma Betty, for teaching me to crochet 40 years ago [Gosh, it's been THAT long?], and giving me the courage to teach myself to knit six years later.)
I just need MONEY and that means working, getting bills paid off and getting a lot of other things done that have to be done to make moola to do what needs doing. Up and at 'em, I say! Time to find books and get my fanny in gear some more! Hugs, all!
End note: Hey, apparently, I have more time today to fiddle around here at the house than I thought - Quentin just called and said debone is shut down for the night due to a transformer blowing up, so that side of the plant has no power. Ooops. Guess I get more done outside then whilst there is no rain, after I make a run to Subway - I kind of have my tummy set on Monday is Subway day, lol. This also means I don't have to do the weed whacking - Quentin is so irritated by work getting cancelled that he's just gotten home with my Subway and is already out there whacking away to burn off some energy.
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