We made a lot of new contacts, and he literally said later that night “I had maybe the most fun in my entire life”. So awesome to be able to help him experience that. I mean, why else would you own a car that’s so damn fancy?
We even got ourselves matching kicks! I think they’re Vans? Either way, that was definitely an awesome event with lots of friendly people. Grayson even met a new potential love interest 😂
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| Cool Desert Nights, Richland, WA 2021 |
On the home front, we are having a lot of fun re-growing our own vegetables. The green onions that he loves to eat every day are thriving!!! Now that I am confident where they live, we will build quite a yield. I just started lettuce today (Romaine) to see how it does. I have a few seedlings sprouting already and just ordered an indoor greenhouse from Amazon. It will fit perfectly under one of our high living room windows, where the onions are thriving. There is also a plug in right there so if we need to add a grow light, we can easily do so. We should get the greenhouse by Sunday🤞🏻
I have always wanted to be mostly self sustaining, and I absolutely prefer fruits & veggies to anything else. Cheese comes in next, but I wont be growing that anytime soon lol pretty sure the HOA would frown upon that. But if we can reduce our cost for produce by growing our own, that would be amazing! Not to mention, a hell of a lot healthier. So the back yard will slowly be built into a garden on one side and a dog agility / sensory course on the other. I’ve been collecting tires and things for that 💕 We are also focusing more on green eating - less animal meats. The animals we will add as desired are poultry, fish, and once in awhile the white part of pork. The dogs are even transitioning to a 1/4 BARF diet. I know it’s not much, but still. Plus it’s a lovely treat for them, and super healthy. If I could, I’d go all the way, but until I can feed us all without depending on some other entity, I can’t really justify focusing that on the pups. For now, it’s just BARF treats and lots of love.
Check out what we have so far!
This last photo was my rendition of split pea, bacon and chicken breast soup. They absolutely LOVED it! Everyone in the house ate a good portion of it.
Next time I’ll shave a few minutes off the Instant Pot because I’d like to see the shape of the peas. Otherwise, this was a hit and not a single potato and only salt to taste at the end.
Over all, our life is relatively simple. It’s nice really. Not having the mad dash everywhere. My local pot shop is literally 3.3 miles from our driveway. The grocery stores are just a couple miles farther. The weather is always lovely, even when its stormy. The growing season out here is the best in the state!
We are working in to a new system of living and we’re loving every minute of it. According to what he has researched, our neighborhood over the next short while is supposed to become self sustaining. How cool would it be to be able to ride our trikes to the local grocer? I can’t wait to see what transforms right before our eyes over the next few years.
I suppose that’s about all for our life update. We are trying really hard to reduce and reuse things around the house. Thank goodness for Pinterest these days. My mind is so full of other stuff, sometimes it’s hard to get creative. :) But it’s all good. Life is great and getting better with each day.
There are just a couple things missing, but I hope, and he hopes, that in time all that will fall into it’s proper place as well.
Until then, wishing everyone safety and love.
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