I Really Need To Win The Lottery

I have big dreams.  I fell in love with our land, with having a farm, with the idea of trying to start a Poultry Farm...but it takes money.  I won't lie, winning the lottery would help tremendously towards my goals.  Only a small portion of our land is fenced, I would need something like 4500 feet of fencing to fence our whole property, probably more because I want goats, pigs and maybe a cow or two...so, I would have to section off some of our acreage.  But we also have a lot of trees, and I would like a bit more land cleared if we got larger animals...that would require a real tractor with attachments...that would come in handy and be so much faster than me having to till with a small hand tiller and have someone else brush hog parts of our land when the weeds are 7 feet tall.  I could probably actually plant larger areas and maybe even grow enough corn, oats or wheat to help feed my animals.  I just get worn out tilling by hand.  I need buildings too, I do the best I can building chicken coops, but a lot of the time it takes awhile to get all the materials I need. It would be great if I could afford to just have everything built at once and then I could devote my time to other things.  That and I need a barn for larger animals...and it would be great to have a horse or two to ride to the back of our land.  I would love to clear part and plant new trees and have clear paths to ride and be able to get to all the areas that we call our land.  I would love to have gates big enough to drive a tractor through too, so I don't have to mow large parts with a push mower.

I know I am impatient at times, but like with my breeding pens, even making them out of fencing, I still had to have the materials to create them, and the gates...and shade cloth to keep the poultry from cooking in the sun, and I just got tarps to put over them for when it rains...nothing fancy, but I need to make sure predators can't get in too.  I am hoping to start breeding some of my chickens soon, but things need to be right and I really want to get NPIP certified and be able to close my flock.  

I would love to have a large shop building with electricity and air conditioning for days like today, it would be nice to be able to build things in a real shop and not have to do it outside in the heat, and to not have to haul all of the tools out to a pen and build things in place, because I have no way to transport anything big.  It would be great to have a trailer to hook up to the tractor I need.  I need water lines run to areas of the yard for when it doesn't rain too...have you ever tried to pull a couple hundred feet of waterhose full of water around a few acres, it ain't easy for this Grandma.  I have tried to buy a few fruit trees each year, when my husband asked me what I wanted for Valentines Day...I asked for fruit trees.  Am I crazy?  Well...if I won the lottery, I would plant an orchard, and lots of Blueberries, Strawberries and Raspberries...there is nothing better than fresh fruit.  I want pecans too..maybe some almond trees and hazelnut bushes.

I would like to have a large building for my chickens instead of a lot of small coops, and have the ability to separate each breed into separate pens.  That and a place to house injured poultry besides a kennel on my back porch.  I would love a small guest house too, all of my family lives in different areas and it would be nice to have several "Tiny" houses for visitors, or even if I could afford to hire someone to help me take care of the chickens and the land...yep, big dreams.

It would be great to finish fixing up the house too, make all the repairs and not worry about anything breaking anymore, get a septic system installed right and get enough solar panels to actually be able to run everything on solar.  Oh, and maybe dig the pond deeper with that tractor we don't have yet and build a dock over the pond so we can fish off it and maybe watch the sunset sometimes.  I am dreaming...but it would be great to have a pool, a gazebo and a nice fire pit...and an outdoor kitchen too!  Lol, lots of dreams...

  I guess the first step is BUYING a lottery ticket...