Thanksgiving is a daily thing here at Creekside Farm. Some days we are a bit more thankful than others, but generally we love the life we live here. Tiny home living means a scaled down version of holidays. A whole turkey might fit in the new refrigerator out in the new house, but eating a whole turkey seems like a bigger job than we'd like to take on. This year we did Game Hens and traditional Thanksgiving Dinner trimmings. Ann made her wonderful cranberry sauce garnish and we had stuffed sweet potatoes on the plate along with the usual stuff, but not stuffing.
The house build is continuing. We finally got the entire house wrapped in Tyvek and got nearly all of the windows in. The place looks pretty good and the wind no longer blows through the house. This has to make our son Jack happy since he's living in the office out there. He has made a nice little nest of the office by wrapping the room in plastic sheeting and heating it electrically. It seems pretty nice in his place, a bit warm for working, but nice.
There are still a couple of tiny leaks in our waste water system confounding our hopes of one day having everything inspected and approved. The electrical system is all done and the water supply system is leak free, but there are three persistent leaks in the waste system venting still need chased out. We'll get them done next week.
We took Thanksgiving day off and then spent today and Friday working on the Farm instead of working on the house. There is not much you can do in the cold wet weather of late Fall, but those things needing done simply won't wait.
Ann and I planted a bed of Tulips and Narcissus bulbs, sixty feet long and five feet wide, in the Kitchen Garden. The space was where we had onions and garlics planted last year. The new flower bed is entirely in the public view, so early Spring will be very colorful with about a thousand bulbs blooming. Right now it just looks like a stripe of brown mulch because we buried the whole thing in six inches of composted horse manure mulch to keep things cozy in Winter. We also divided and transplanted our Peonies into the same row with the bulbs. Early Summer will have twenty-one pink Peony plants blooming to carry us through until Summer and early Fall blooms are well in full color. We started this project with one reclaimed Peony plant and three hundred bulbs three years ago. We'll leave all of this in the ground through next year and will likely have four thousand bulbs and sixty Peonies when we replant next time.
We are moving Potatoes and Onions back to the Market Garden this year. There is plenty of froom there, plenty of Sunshine too. But there is quite a bit of work to do out there this Winter before planting season arrives in late March. We still need to cut down some trees, a project which I am somehow reluctant to do, but we need to open up the sky this year to let the Sun shine and heat in the vegetable beds to get things growing. The soils in the Market Garden are very good and we will improve it only slightly this year. Making new bed space isn't on the agenda this year since we already have quite a lot of space ready to plant.
We only planted the Peaches and Herbs garden last Spring, but it is already well established. We planted our baby Garlics there this year. Garlic takes quite a bit of time to mature, and nothing else really likes being around it, so putting it in with the Chives and other herbs seemed the best place for them. We found about three-hundred baby garlics in the bed where garlics we put last year. All of the new garlics were self planted from seed so we're hopeful to have a continuing supply of Garlic, and other related stuff, for the foreseeable future.
We are moving one of our greenhouses out to MacGregor's Market Garden and have greenhouse heat and lighting ready to get things growing early in the new year. We also have quite a bit of Coco Coir planting mix, home made potting soil, and many other growing supplies found on Craig's List. A Marijuana growing facility that was changing over from growing in dirt, to hydroponic growing, so we got quite a few nice pots along with the expensive lighting and very expensive bagged growing media, for free. We also found a nice propane heater on Craig's List. It looks like a wood stove but needs no chimney since burning propane only exhausts heat and water vapor. We already have growing tables from the old Greenhouse, so we have all that we need for planting seeds.
Our new hens are producing eggs nicely now, but the old hens and Runner Ducks have stopped laying for the Winter. The new hen's eggs are really small when compared to what we normally get, but they are very tasty and will get larger as time goes on.
Life at Creekside Farm is composed of hard work, sore joints, and little else. But we love it.
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