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As I have already said, I am thinking of a major overhaul of the chicken project. Today a different kind of "chicken" came to my consideration: the quail. Yes, I know quails aren't chickens, and neither are ducks. But we'll label them collectively under the umbrella term "chicken" because I don't care.
Quail, huh? I already had quails and I failed miserably at it. But I was learning and experimenting back then, and now I have more tools at my disposal (as well as the ability to get some materials I couldn't back then). I also had a rabbit once, who liked to run away and return one or even two or three days after. Until he never did. Sadness.
But now, as I said, I have more resources as well as the capacity to plan out things in advance. So I am considering also adding quails to the system.
I am thinking something like this: first, eat the ducks, leave just the oldest two. They are the original couple and I really really like those guys. Besides, I did read that they make a symbiotic relationship with tilapia. Besides, I do want to make a nice pond, and what good is a pond if I don't have ducks? Second, I'll keep some currants, and let them be free. But right now I have three male currants. I have to get rid of two and perhaps exchange them for hens. Third, keep a population of lying hens, along with their rooster. They are going to have their own green patio where they won't be able to get out, they'll be properly sheltered in bad weather, and they'll be able to roam just for a few hours a day. Third. Quails are going to have a little space of their own, a cage where they can be safe and where they won't run away.
There are several additional things I would like to get started this year. One is the lab, that is, the space where I am going to prepare ferments, start seedlings, and seed a lot of trees for future planting, and perhaps even selling. I want to make a fenced crop area to try and grow: potatoes, beets, cabbage, onions, carrots, and whatever comes to mind. Additionally, I want to try growing the "three sisters" of maize, beans and squash. I am also planning on buying and planting a number of fruit trees, which are going to be spread and colonize the parts of the land that I am not yet working on myself.
Well, as the saying goes: "tell God all about your plans so she can have a good laugh". I say, if God can have a laugh, why not include strangers on the internet, too? But at least, I am stating my purpose, my aims, if I am never sure that things will go as planned. At any rate, I need to plan before I get to work, so I can at least make a budget and plan a sequence of actions.
And I haven't even mentioned all the other plans that I have. I guess I am just saying this out loud as a way to get it on paper (um, pattern of bits on somebody else's hard-drive), so that I can see it from outside.
I really don't know, it all seems doable, but unforeseen circumstances (and others well within my view) always come and fuck things over. But for the time being, this is the plan of what I'd like to do. Now, I suppose I should put them on actual paper, plan out the materials, the work needed, the estimated time that it will take up. I think it's extremely important that I do, what with the world being a mess as it is (has been for some 5 centuries, no, millenia). I despair of thinking just how simple this seems, yet things may never actually happen the way I imagine. Right now I am sick, I could be planting trees and fencing the crop but I won't be able to do this for a few days, then I still need to fulfill my obligations with my family, which kind of sucks because it requires me to invest energy elsewhere and not here at home, as they expect something from me (I already made a promise and I'm falling behind on it).
Well this was a little vent on circumstances. Lately I've been feeling an impulse to write everything I am thinking here on my space on the pub, for whatever reason. So, fuck it, I don't like to discuss my matters with others, but I still do it, perhaps just for a change. We should always strive to change, and there is a shitload on my mind these days that it wouldn't hurt to put some of it out there for the world, let them have a good laugh.