Well I talked with an expert chicken lady 🙂 and she said that because we live on the north side of a mountain and the chickens are only getting ~10 hours of light a day, that we may not get eggs for another month… She said that their ‘sisters’ are probably laying already because they live in town, probably get slightly longer days, and may even get a little laying stimulation from street lights.  Hmmm… I hadn’t thought about the difference in daylight times here vs where they came from.
The bees are still alive… Toby went into the hive the other day when it got in the 70’s here and they were hoppin’ Maybe we will actually get honey next year…
I’m having a hard time being at the house right now and sometimes I feel like just selling everything and moving to a house in the city. I’m feeling pretty clastrophobic. We’ve been in there for 6 months and I know we have another year+, but I have to admit to myself that I am not a pioneering, camping kinda girl. I hoped I would be when we moved in there. But, you know, for most of my life I’ve never lived in anything smaller than 1800 square feet! (And the houses I grew up in were 3000 and 6000 square feet!!) So, no matter how much stuff we had we always had room. Now, we have dwindled our comfort living stuff down to very little, but we still have piles of stuff everywhere. I feel like pushing the walls down just to get some breathing air. I think Toby was hoping that this new office space would help ease some of these feelings, but now, all I really want to do is stay at the office. There is hot water and a shower… lights that I can flick on with a switch instead of having to go out and refill them with gas and then listen to their constant, loud humm while they are on. Everything I try to do doesn’t take twenty extra steps to complete it. Kaia keeps asking to just sleep at the office so that we don’t have to go home. I completely realize that compared to most of the world, I still lead a pretty cush life. But, it is also a very foreign lifestyle to me and I am trying to figure out how to get myself through the next year without turning into a complete nut case.
Hmm, keep a futon at the office for occasional civilization breaks? Would you be more motivated to finish the upstairs of the office or the foundation for your house? 🙂
Perhaps some of these feelings are being influenced by the lack of daylight for you and Kaia too. Thomas has a good suggestion.
(((hugs)))
perhaps staying a few nights a week at the office would help you keep your sanity?
once your house starts going up and being a visual reminder, perhaps it won’t be so bad anymore because the end will be in sight.
hang in there! it will be so worth it when you are done.
Thanks, guys, for your comments. Things are feeling a little better just knowing that the days are getting longer. Also, we hope to have electricity out there in the next month, so it will be much easier to get stuff done at night. I’m hangin’ on 🙂