I love chickens!

I'm not sure why, I just do.  I like the idea of having chickens to provide eggs, and fertilizer for the garden, and I just like the thought of living the simple life.  I read blogs about it, think about it, plan on how to get started, I've even taken a class on how to raise chickens in your backyard, but I've yet to realize this dream.

Last weekend Papawizzy, my daughter, granddaughters and I went on the Austin Funky Chicken Coop Tour.  It was great fun and we got to see lots of people who are raising chickens in their backyards.  Some people have a lot of space and others just have postage size lots that they are doing amazing things with. Most of the places also have gardens and some places have other livestock, like goats and ducks. All this in downtown Austin!

I hope to someday be able to have the chickens, and maybe a goat or two, but what is stopping me?  Well other than the fact that we're currently living in a RV? I think mainly it's fear.  Fear of the unknown. Fear of the commitment. Fear that I'm too old to risk something as crazy as this. And one of my biggest fears is that I will be perceived as a crazy doomsayer, who thinks that the sky is falling and we all need to get our plot in the country and live off the land because the government has gone crazy (well I do think that a little)! I know that my God is able to protect and provide for me and my family, so I don't want to give the impression that I don't trust him.

I'm thinking that I'm just a big chicken (pun intended)!  I think it would be a great learning experience for me and for my family.  I know that it will take faith and work, but what of value doesn't!  I read a friends Facebook post today that said that God gives us dreams to build our faith.  If we can accomplish things on our own that don't require God's help to accomplish, then we dream too small!

Well this would definitely require God's help!  We would need a place, which would require the finances to get it, and the knowledge of where we want to be over the foreseeable future.  I think that we are currently in a holding pattern, and right now I have a half whiskey barrel planted with a tomato, rosemary, sweet basil, serrano pepper and cilantro. I guess that will have to do for now!

Blessings,

Mamawizzy