For those of you who follow-I will apologize for the lack of updating in the past week. It's been a little crazy around the house and the farm. A friend of mine that I had worked for called and needed help desperately temporarily. So I have gone in this past week and helped her out in her cafe. At the same time, forever with marketing on my mind, I have been promoting and updating all the regulars and sometime regulars on the happenings with the farm and letting them know the exciting changes we have made.
Now Jeff and I are on a small vacation. It is a late wedding present from Jeff's (and now mine too) Aunt Judy. She gave us one of her timeshares for a long weekend. We are Hilton Head and so far it is has been a very relaxing weekend. Today we drive down to Savannah and walked around for a while and it is a really nice place. But after all the walking I was ready to get back to the condo. I know I am supposed to be on vacation but I can't help but to secretly want to go home and get to work on the farm. But at the same time I know that this is going to be the only break that we get from now until Christmas. So I had better enjoy it while I can.
Between working for the friend of mine I managed to get 12 more flats of seeds sown (cabbage, several varieties of broccoli and cauliflower, and a couple of varieties of carrots). When I get home Sunday I will have 4 more flats to start of collards and another variety of lettuce. Plus, I think I am going to have Jeff build me another table to go in there. Sowing the seeds won't take too long so I am hoping that the weather will be nice enough for me to cut the bamboo. We cut it from a lady's yard that Jeff maintained and we brought it to the house. I am wanting to cut some of it to use for plant stakes at the farm. Some of the cut flowers that I am going to plant are going to need staking up. So again there's another dollar saved.
We got squeezed into a closed door session of the town board and got approved for the development permit. So I went on Wednesday to get that permit and all the other permits needed to start construction. Of course as usual there was a glitch and a hinderance to my progress. Everything went well at the Town Hall. I got the permit ($100) and paid the impact fee ($1,000). Melissa has been really great at the Town Hall. So then I was off to the county offices to get the other permits-here's where the glitch comes in. I had ONE set of stamped building plans and I needed 3. I had the permits filled out except we didn't have the contractors sign them. We had all of their information filled out with license numbers and all but that wasn't good enough. Since Jeff was the one that contacted all of them he was upset that we couldn't get the permits without them. I also learned that if it's a residential bulding you can do all the building, plumbing, and electrical without a contractor. But a commercial building has to have a licensed plumber, electrician, and mechanical contractor.
After having made very little success with the permits, I decided to go to the farm and work on the weights for the row covers. Those 200 sections of plastic netting I had cut now had to be filled with gravel in each end. My mom met me at the farm and helped me get the first 25 or so done. I stayed until dark and got about 25 more done. I haven't been able to go back up and finish them yet. So hopefully I will be able to get to those this week. I have also got to get the flower beds ready this week. I'm not looking forward to that because they are FULL of weeds and grass. I really have my work cut out for me on that. I also need to get out in the strawberry field and do a little more snipping. I need a clone!
So here I am on vacation and worried about the farm and making my to do lists out in my mind. I promise I will keep up with the blogging better from here on.
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