What's Next: Well I don't know for sure. There are three choices as I reckon it. Choice 1, if we find a small house or duplex we can move to where the landlord is flexible in the next 2 weeks we can give our notice and not renew our lease.
Option 2, we stay put for another year and I still garden on my very full-of-plants balcony.
Option 3, we renew here, but month to month so we can find a right place. Month to month is spendy, but quite frankly if we can get what we're hoping to get it will likely cost a bit more anyways, so we should get used to it.
There are a couple of basic dementions to it all, I want a small yard, and I want to sell vintage+ from my living room. It would be great if we could get something that is zoned mixed use, but since that's highly unlikely I'll go the home business type B route with permit, because in the metro area here going under the table will get me caught, unlike out in the country. But I need to find a landlord who doesn't mind what I'm up to, with plants and with selling. So its a tall order. But having a vintage booth at an antique mall has only gotten me so far, I'd found a place that was starting to work for me, after failed attempts elsewhere, but it closed and while I've been scouting around for a new location to rent space at I really don't want to do that.
The flexability of selling from my living room is exactly what I need. And I can balance it with my growing things, my peer support classes I teach and my singing gigs. With my multiple disabilities I need flexible and the right small house or duplex with the right landlord could give me just that. I want to add composting and mushroom growing to the docket as well if we have enough space, and get a Bokashi so I can compost meat and citris and bread.
There are other aspects we need, close to public transit, etc. but I'm not going to go into all of those here, every time I move its the same basics, but now we want something "better" than an apartment.
In the meantime: I ground up a bunch of dried eggshells and put it on my broccoli pots so the seeds will have calcium. I may have overdid it though because I used a lot, apparently that didn't stop a slug from chillin' in one the other night, the baby slugs have turned into big grownup slugs and they can still climb up here grrrr. I check my plants each night, I learnt they can show up even when its not raining. I can't know if they're there until I feel them and yick I toss them over the balcony, but then getting their slime off my hand is a chore. Oh the joys of blindylife (sarcasm).
My carrots and fava beans are happening, and my calendula too, we ate the last of the white raddishes in our salad, plus some volunteer common nipplewort leaves, I'll leave a couple of those to flower just to see what they are like and the bees will have a turn. Usually I just pull them when young and eat the leaves. The wildflowers in one of my balcony hanging boxes are coming along and growing nicely, I planted some more in my self-watering boxes. Also planted my serano pepper seeds, my baby white pumpkin seeds and my cantalope seed. Started hardening the poinsetia today, I'll bring it out and in for a week and then leave it out for the warm season.
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