So many plans, so little time. . .

We are not people of resolution (yes, we are blurry). No really i haven't made a "new years resolution" in about 15 years - so why start now.

We have however, for sometime, been re-examining the way we eat and live (and most recently - bathe. Its a dirty addiction, bathing!). So today i was pleased when i was at the grocery store to see that our cart was full of vegetables and NO meat whatsoever. . . until got to the chili aisle. Today the church met at our house, so while i am secretly trying to reimpose vegetarianism (mostly) in our house (don't tell Amy that i haven't been buying meat. . . she will figure it out eventually . . .), i didn't seem quite fair to suddenly impose it on our friends. Eventually i will though. . . they will survive!
But it felt good to look at all of the yummy veggies staring back at me. Eventually with the families permission i would like to try to live on only locally grown produce for a year (yes, no coffee or sugar or mangoes. . . ugh. . . maybe we will wait on all that), but not until we have the soap making thing under control.
And so we start that in just a couple of weeks, and we are still looking into the sheep/goat ranching thing, and i still haven't started drafting the presentation for the community college to the local university. . . time to add cloning to the list of projects, so i can finish the others.

We discovered his existence while out marking birds for the second round of butchering. Sadly after thinking about how we would have organic meat in the freezer (this is where the "mostly" above comes in - as long as we grow it or it comes from a local organic farm we can eat it.), and less mouths to feed in the yard, it turns out the butcher is closed till March. So. . . we will keep them around for a few more weeks. Maybe they will get a little bigger.

And so the year begins on the pharm! Time to go eat. Tonight. . . home made potatoe soup!