Garden Thoughts Lead to Ducks

  While others are planning their fall gardens I'm planning for next Spring already. Today we went to the new old house for a few short moments. The house we live in right now has some soft spots in the floor that need to be fixed before we try to move heavy items over them, so we made the journey to the house to get some plywood. 

  As I wandered around what will be our garden area it hit me... we should have raised beds and allow the ducks to live in the garden! We have so many and I really don't utilize them where we are, while they give me happiness we can't just be feeding freeloaders. Adding ducks to the garden will help keep away nasty bugs, that want to eat our vegetables, and by using many raised beds we will be able to keep the same vegetables safe from the ducks when they are smaller seedlings.

   Another bonus of the ducks in or near the garden will allow for the use of their nitrogen rich wastewater to be used in watering the plant life. If you have ducks you already know they are pretty gross little cuties that are not afraid to use the pool as a bathroom. If you don't have ducks it is my humble opinion you should for various reasons beyond the use of pool water! 

 Pictured here are our Pekin x Runner combo we have purposefully bred to have the heaviness of the Pekin and the hardiness of the Runner. As time has gone by the Runner genes have won over the Pekin and they are not as meaty as we would have liked yet are far healthier than the beginning Runner ducks we started with, surprisingly. 

  I simply cannot wait to share pictures of the garden this Spring or to eat fresh vegetables we have grown! Love & Light yall!!

It's been so long and yet I tend to come back to this when there are too many thoughts in my head. Right now, its my health. In 2019 I was doing yoga daily weighed 175 and working nearly every day. Welcome to 2024 I'm 60 pounds heavier, a stay-at-home mom who's heart beats too fast. Inappropriate sinus tachycardia is what the cardiologist called it. I call it a speed bump in my life. Do I heed the call of the speed bump to slow down yep sure did which is how I am now in the mess I find myself in. 

 This week has been starting over week, I do that every couple of months, like most overweight people I want to believe. I hate the thoughts that I am alone in not having my life together. I've eaten healthier than I have in a long time, walked more than I have in months and added yoga back into my life. Every night is a reminder of how much I have forgotten myself, to get my license, to be a good worker bee, to run the homestead, to do everything and anything I can do besides carve out a little time to do something good for me and my body. Perhaps it became another chore to add to my list. How odd to think of yourself as just another chore. 

 

  Here we are starting over one more time again. This time I feel like I really have to make the changes and stick with them, I am not getting any younger and my body hates me almost as much as I dislike it. Wish me luck and strength and all the good vibes, please! 

  This I hope is the first of many pages I write about my quest for health but also I really want to teach others and to talk about homesteading and being a mom and Nana. I want to talk about Magick and the way homesteading brings me closer to the divine and to share little nuggets so that maybe the baby witches out there who happen upon me can learn from an old almost Crone. Love and Light yall !