Adventures In Homesteading (Day 343)

Hello Everyone!

The day that will not write itself, Phone tinkering, Seeding the field edges, Good soil & A potential spring!

Alright, the morning is dragging on here and it is well past dawn... and I have yet to write anything for this entry. This time around, I am going to blame it on... being lulled by the rain and being way too cozy zoning out tinkering with an old phone that I want to use as a media player.

With all the rain, it sure has been challenging to get in as much time outdoors as I would like to be getting... but then again... given how achy I am feeling... I dunno if I truly wanted to get more time in working on stuff over the previous few days. Once the weather clears up today, I am sure that I will be 'back at it' (with doing as much as possible while the weather holds) which from the looks of things... seems like I best get accustomed to with all the storms blowing in.

Yesterday, I did more seed planting and this time I focused on getting more parts of the big open area... where I felled the very large mimosa tree... and in the area where I had all the mimosa logs previously stored. That entire area has such soft and rich soil that I always regret walking around on it... given how much impact that I leave... but when it comes to planting seeds... I felt that the disturbances were worth it.

I am unsure if I ever mentioned it, but there is a perpetually damp (and soft) channel that runs through that big open area... and most likely there is a subterranean spring somewhere uphill of the channel. From what I can tell, it would not take a tremendous amount of digging (at nearly any point along the soft channel) to hit some form of water.

The main reason that I have never really explored it as a water source, is that by chance that (while digging) I do come across moving water... then I do not have anywhere for it to go unlike in the gulches. I also want to avoid doing any exploratory digging on the hill in general... because whoa it has such good topsoil it is difficult to convince myself to disturb it.

On a different note, I wound up falling asleep way too early and my sleep cycle is all out of whack for the second day in a row now. Somehow I keep managing to expand the privacy as much as I can... as well as getting as many seeds as possible planted in as many places as I can but have yet to see much of it popping up.

Well, I do not have much else to report on this rainy day. I hope that most folks are doing well. Ta Ta for now.