Sorry for the delay in posting, I’ve been fighting off something this past week :S However, I just ate a load of garlic so that should fight it off. Garlic is my weakness, it’s no wonder I’m single LOL.

I have this little dream. I’ve actually had it on and off, but recently it’s back on I am very contradictory, I really should be a Gemini instead of a Leo. If I won the mega lottery tomorrow, part of me would want to get on the next flight to Paris and buy a beautiful apartment near the Jardins Luxembourg but another part of me would want to buy a small acreage in Ontario near the city (sort of like Blenkinsop Valley here in Saanich). Maybe I would buy a small hobby farm in France and enjoy the best of both worlds LOL. I would love to have a simple but nice Victorian-style farmhouse with a large backyard vegetable garden and a big greenhouse (or perhaps an Orangerie attached onto the house, heated with tropical plants and exotic birds, citrus trees, and a big fountain in the middle). I’d love to have a cute Provencal kitchen with a split door leading to the back garden that I can open the top half on a good day to cool off the kitchen while I’m baking. I’d try to grow as much of my own food as possible and have a bunch of chickens (maybe 10?) and a rooster. Zoë could run around (I’d probably fence in the back garden) and I could rent out some of the land to a tenant farmer or have a big pasture and barn for goats/sheep or rent out a horse stable to somebody (and in turn they would take care of a horse for me)–or just have one acre to play around with. I’d cook everything from scratch, have lots of family and people over for dinners, maybe even turn it into an agritourismo so I could have guests come and visit so I could meet some interesting people. Maybe I’d sell some eggs and produce in my little barn or at a Farmer’s Market on the weekend. I’d also have time to write a book or something. It would be a fun, simple life. I would be near shops and not too rural (so I’m not a million miles away from my neighbours) but far enough away that I could have some privacy without people complaining about every little thing (not having to worry about stupid covenants or neighbours snitching because the sprinkler was on at the wrong time). Maybe one day I’ll win the lotto and get my little dream house. Of course, that means I have to start buying a ticket

I did find out yesterday that we could technically raise 5 bantam hens (small chickens) as pets in our backyard as it’s just big enough to have them, but my Mom isn’t too keen on the idea LOL. Plus, I’m sure some neighbour would complain to the city, make up some BS about noise or smell and have them taken away and destroyed. The joys of living in Suburban hell. I am seriously thinking of putting up a little greenhouse; maybe a 6 x 8 or 6 x 6 greenhouse. One that snaps together like THIS ONE so I could take it with me when I moved. It is on sale right now… like I need a reason to justify spending money.