Up and at em' early today.
Well they been working on the brown church for 2 years and that's about as far as they got. The word is , it's supposed to be relocated because of historical but I'm not thinking that's going to happen none to soon. The same 2 guys started the White church across the street about a month ago and are just trying to stabilize it from collapsing.
Essentially , they got 2 projects going and I haven't seen them around for a few weeks so it may be many years before I have concerns of a front neighbor.
 
As for the farm and garden,
Pigs -  They are pretty expensive to buy on the hoof around here, a piglet is about $100 each or a full grown slaughter pig is about  $300. Im the kinda guy who will try anything at least once so we shall see how the first time goes. I already got people asking me to raise and slaughter for them , not really what I want to do . A co worker has done pigs for about 7 years. He did the feed them anything and everything once and said they tasted horrible. I'm going to use caution on what I feed them.
Fruit Trees - I have 4 apple trees and just put in 2 full size peach trees . I'm looking to put in 2 pear trees next along with the strawberry patch. Next year I may do some raspberries and black berries.
I love canning and my wife likes making jam so I want my storage look like Clint's on steroids , lol.
Veggies - Tomatoes , tomatoes , tomatoes !! Nothing like homegrown tomato sauce. I think we had 17 quarts last year and that's not enough so I'm going to try and double my tomato yield this season. Also going to try cabbage in containers for the first time , anyone have any success at that ?
The other usual's are pole beans, bush beans, podded peas, spinach (already been eating some) , LOTS of pickling cukes, squash, carrots( mine never seem to produce ) , head lettuce, garlic and LOTS of peppers.  Next season I'd like to try potatoes & turnips I need to find the space , our soil is terrible = heavy clay, I've tried adding peat and sand but it hasn't worked well so I stick with the raised bed method and input good soil in them.
The green house will be an over the summer project to where I can try to get the late and second yield crops in there. I'm also going to try a cold frame as suggested here.
 
As that Crappie guy said, it's a lot of work and I'm a workaholic. I can not just sit still. I don't watch TV nor spend much time on the internet, except now, lol.. I need projects, fishing and hunting to keep my heart beating..

Around here price for piglet is $65 but we have lots of Amish.  Grown ones are about $1.50 a pound give or take.  We feed table scraps and hog mash and honestly the more sour and rotten the food is the more they like it.  In the summer weeds from the garden and grass clips too. We have lucked out and have access to a truckload of bread products every month. Doughnuts, cakes, muffins, bread ect. I pick through it and then the pig and chickens eat good for the next few weeks. We are trying to decide about what fruit trees.    Be careful with blackberries as they are weeds and will over run an area quick. You can do taters in tires or crates and keep adding up to cover the stalk. You can also grow them in hay bales , but this requires daily watering and fertilizer to be added. I could grow more, but my wife wants nothing to do with the canning  or growing so there is only so much a guy can do. She will eat it though. Carrots like sand and it is hit or miss for me.  one year none, one year 50#. We get more cabbage than we can eat and it does not store well from the ground. Try planting some early and some late stuff to stagger its harvest

It started raining and my drive to play in the mud is just not there .
Nice tips Clint. I'm figuring on 6-10 heads of cabbage. Not to worried about black berries, I got some place for them along the back woodline. We both enjoy canning so I do get help there , not so much on the maintaining of the garden though. That's pretty much all me.i may have screwed up yesterday. It was bright and sunny so I moved a bunch of plants outside for the day. The tomato plants are not very happy right now. Hoping the indoor green room makes them so again.
As said, it's gloomy weather so I might as well do some much needed cleaning of the man cave with the woodstove cranking.

Off topic:
Anyone interested, can listen or download the show we danced to Friday night.
Local pub, local musicians. There were 123 paying people not counting the walk ins. I can't remember a crowd that size in a very long time there. Must be spring fever. Don't think there wasn't 1 person not dancing.
https://archive.org/details/wheel2018-03-30.pub

Good Grief... after reading the pages you guys post.... I need a nap. lol.


Tuna, as for the clay, if you ever get time enough, research Gypsum as a soil conditioner. May take time but you might not need those MuckBoots in the rainy season.

The sun broke out and so did I. Painted the pig house. Pulled the cover back across the pool which blew off for some reason only last night. Got a sump pump in there now to drain some off.

As far a gypsum, funny you say that. I have access to all gyp and lime I could ever need in all our lifetimes put together. It's a key ingredient to making cement, which is what I do for a JOB , ugh.
I got rid of the rototiller years ago. Maybe if this thing progresses, I may go back to 1again but I'm liking the ease of raised beds and crates.
Shortly the house will be filled with family and craziness. I'm going to bring in another load of wood so I can be comfortable away from it all in the man cave.
Thank gosh for such a loving wife 😀

For your strawberry plants try these varieties, Charlotte-this is a everbearing type,sweet fruit from june till fall.Also try Mara Des Bois, another everbearing type bears fruit from early summer  through summer. I've had very good luck with these varieties, I brought the plants and the grow tub tower, fertilizer from Gurney's seed and nursery co.for $37.00 There ph# is 513-354-1492.

outdoorperson
For your strawberry plants try these varieties, Charlotte-this is a everbearing type,sweet fruit from june till fall.Also try Mara Des Bois, another everbearing type bears fruit from early summer  through summer. I've had very good luck with these varieties, I brought the plants and the grow tub tower, fertilizer from Gurney's seed and nursery co.for $37.00 There ph# is 513-354-1492.

Thanks for the response outdoors,
I've purchased from gurney in the past. No complaints and good service.
However, my strawberry plants have already been bought locally a few weeks ago just waiting to plant. I'm doing 2 circular rows ( 24) of Ozark beauty and 1 (12) patch of earlyglow. The cooperative extension recommends there here.

Can't you all tell I'm bored and spending to much time inside...
Pig house was painted front recycled leftover stuff I had.
As for them digging. That white stuff is old ceramic molds, plaster. I smashed with a sledge hammer. The garage foundation is 4 feet deep block. I used the molds for fill and if they try digging into that, they will not like it.

https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=pork
 
Yea it is up about 10 cents a # since last time I bout one from the farmer. Got rid of my 2 comercial Hobart Grinders, Had a U.S slicer made before Elec. that thing was so kool with a big wheel crank & sold the Globe slicer also. Maybe get back into hunting soon. Miss every yr. on new yrs. day we would get around 100 lbs. of pork loins .99 cents a lb. and take all the deer trimmings from the season & grind for burger/hotsticks/bolona & sausage. Don't miss being a butcher though.
 
Put 8' x 6.5" T&G oak planks for flooring last week at camp in the man cave 14' x 24'. Was a garage then Amish turned it into a Midwife room. Pretty cool with barn beams & a large stone hearth & chimney. Wish I had my Hearthstone 1 soapstone up there at 100,000 btu 28" logs but the Defaint Vermont Castings 75,000 BTU will do for now. Have a Hearthstone 2 I'm taking to my sons place he bought 10 min. away from our camp.
 
 Gonna go load the wagon with roofing slate from out back, was gonna cut with a grinder but think the wet saw will work with less mess. Making into (look like real stone) for walls & foundations beautiful colors, save from our 200 yr. house when raised the roof.
 
 I could go for a 1 lb. chocalate rabbit 'bout now  Hey BTDT I got a new snow cone machine!!

 Miss the Berkel not near as good cond. as this but was fun..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOin3ENc1lU
 
crappy
 
The one Hobart grinder I had had two grinders, with one out the side, guess so you wouldn't have to clean going from beef to pork. Those things are beasts.