I've just had a wonderful conversation with my stepfather about our plans for improving our property for moving towards self-sufficiency. We discussed owning chooks and how to build them a house and moving it around the section for scratching up the soil. We discussed harvesting and storing the vegetables and fruit under our house in a cellar type arrangement. We discussed pruning our very unloved fruit trees. We discussed preserving, bottling, freezing, dehydrating (and yes he does these things!)... Wow, I love to talk about these things with people who have been there, done that, and gathering a variety of ideas to come up with my own solutions.
My stepfather found it amusing to think that here I am now, keen and enthusiastic about these types of things that they've been right into for 20-30 odd years that I've previously shown no interest in.
Guess that's what having my own family has done to me.
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