Plans for Next Year: Chickens, Bees, Frogs

Next year I want would like:

1. a second colony, in a homemade top bar hive.
2. chickens, 3 of them.
3. the beginning of a dwarf fruit tree orchard.
4. a guild around the cherry tree.
5. an earth oven in a straw bale shelter, a strawbale low wall with welcoming arch up front, and  some strawbale benches, shelters and altars all over the property.
6. a small pond system that takes rain water runoff and – if we can swing it – some gray water, with frogs and other wildlife.
7. a front garden for Bees and People. I will want to host a lot of events – community gardening, lectures, skillshares, poetry reading (and writing), concerts – in that front garden!
8. a pottery wheel.

Is that a lot to ask? And is that a silly question to ask because I ask it of myself?

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Oh,  but life is good.

When told that a friend had gone into the hospital to give birth, Amie asked: “And was it a baby?”

And this is DH’s desk: