What are you waiting for?

Let's make a mutual support topic for the waiting game. For example, I'm waiting for those eggs to hatch, and it's taking FOREVER! Of course I can do a lot of things in the meantime, but I keep checking back on them, because these are my first.

Also, I broke an arm and I'm waiting for it to heal :/

I was waiting for my first ever peaches, but the deer or (?) ate all of them!

Also, I'm waiting for the garden to actually produce...

I've had a few peas, cut a small lettuce (planted a start), a few stalks of asparagus, some green onion tops, and pea shoots, but nothing of size.

So close to soft fruit ripening season....One day I'll get ripe honey berries before the birds eat them (probably after I build a big net over the whole lot!)

Waiting for my husband to have time to finish clearing my polytunnel site. I know he is busy, so trying hard not to nag. I would do it myself,but don't want to be responsible when the digger breaks...

Oh, for my first courgettes (a round, yellow type) to be ready to pick, and for the first runner beans of the season, and for our tomatoes to start flowering ..

To hear back from local zoning/permitting to get started on getting our type B home occupation permit for selling vintage in the living room.  Can't do it under the table because we don't own this house, I'm so excited to be in a house at all though, so we can finally do this.

Ac: I have those yellow scallop courgettes (summer squash) this year too. I have quite a while to wait! Germination was really late this year. All of a sudden I had a whole packet bolt from seed in four days, 4" high seedlings all crammed into a small crate/box lined with cardboard and I grabbed small handfuls and potted them in flats until the secondary leaves came up
I picked this type because the year before last I did regular courgettes and then went up north and came back to find one giant one on each plant -- froze a pile of seeds and used them all up, but this year I was determined to have a lot of little ones so I chose the same variety you are growing -- local supplier.
Well I may have enough to supply the food bank, friends, and my freezers!

I am also waiting on ten years of adjustments from the federal tax -- one simple tax credit adjustment but I will wait and wait and wait and wait !

Also waiting on tomatoes and eventually winter Delicata and Hubbard squash

PS I was waiting for my ankle surgery but finally got that last summer and am recovering nicely. I am looking much fitter as well! I feel blessed!

I'm so glad this thread popped up! - I was waiting for my husband to clear the polytunnel site (which he has now done <3 ) Now I need some more anchor poles, as the ones I have aren't quite long enough to do both sides - this means action from me to phone the supplier and get them ordered. It had slipped my mind I wanted to do this this morning.....

The wait is over! Actually, they're six weeks old now. Pictured here are two hens and a male, he's actually watching the sunrise from their aviary. They're outside only since a few days, all safe and sound by now. I think they're perfect for an urban garden, although I would probably get chickens if I had more space.
My arm is much better too... almost as strong as before, but I'm still rehabilitating it.

4 weeks and I am starting to get scallop summer squash
I don't expect the winter squash are going to make it to maturity, but I can try tarping and see what happens.

Finally the drought is over, and I did have just enough rainwater collected to survive it

The nettles have started to regrow, which I was relieved to see as they were providing a little shade for my veggies. Most of the other weeds ended up between my two new raised arc beds of nettles and hay, and some of the weeds did survive transplanting and the drought!

I had to water my asparagus seedlings throughout. Also some targeted watering of the squash, and a few watering cans on the rest of the veggies but everything survived. The spent hay bales from the winter pigeon tractor/motorhome used to insulate them from the floor, dressed with a very light coating of soil and the smallest summer squash all did amazingly well during the drought, needing watering but not as badly as I thought, and the squash on top of the nettle cuttings did exceptionally well, almost no watering during the drought, and as I infilled the space between the hay and the nettles with sun choke cuttings and other weeds, all the squash have been super happy!

This year is going to be a solid success for the freezers and the food bank!

I'm waiting for Salty to hatch the Muscovy eggs she's sitting on. The Geese *insist* something good is happening, but there are so many wild birds making noises, the bit of cheeping one can hear from eggs internally pipping isn't loud enough for my ears!

She's due Friday officially, but with the warm weather, the last two hatches showed up a day early, and the ducklings didn't make it. I'm counting on Salty to improve on that - fingers crossed.

August has been a month of waiting for me.

Waiting to be able to wean myself off the proton pump inhibitors I've been taking while my stomach learns to make less acid. Ultimately this hasn't been totally successful as I'm still taking a micro-dose daily after a failed attempt to go cold-turkey. I'm on a tenth of a capsule a day though, so it's not going to break the bank while I work on that last little bit. I'm pretty stable now though, and ready to try to figure out what on earth I'm supposed to be eating...

I also managed to get myself involved in chasing up evidence for a murder trial, which has been interesting to say the least, and eventually with enough prodding and pushing and coaxing and enabling statements have been written and delivered to the relevant authorities. Now awaiting results to see if it helped get the case finally solved...

August is hot here, and wildfire season. The largest wildfire ever recorded in Portugal reached just a couple of kilometres away from us and I've been waiting for them to get it all under control. And simultaneously waiting for the weather to cool down a little so I can relax and get outside a bit more during the day. Maybe even sleep a bit better at night so I have the energy to use the cooler weather now it's arriving.

I'm waiting for more cucumbers to be ready to harvest!  Somehow the first one got way ahead of the others haha.

Jay Angler wrote:I'm waiting for Salty to hatch the Muscovy eggs she's sitting on.  

Well she's hatched something. I thought I saw some fluffy bundles under her at one point - that was the point when she *wasn't* blocking the entire nest box opening with her tail fanned out!

So now I'm waiting to do a bill-count. She'll want to show them off at some point, but yesterday she was firmly of the opinion, "MY babies - get your own!"

Ra, you know you're a permie when you're happy that the nettles are regrowing! :D
I now use mine to make a "tea" for my quails, instead of regular water, when the weather is bad. They love it.

Jay, that's interesting, I don't think any of my quail will ever go broody... I'm planning to collect hatching eggs from them in December. They may stop laying earlier, so I hope to trick them by bringing them inside to a warm room with enough "day" hours. A broody hen would save me a lot of work in the early days I guess... that seems to be rare in their case, but they do start to show more natural instincts now that they live in the aviary, for example the roo brings "gifts" to the hens.

Burra, that sounds scary... my aunt also has health issues that will require her to have three surgeries... her diet is now very limited too, mostly white bread and cheese. Fortunately she can eat meat, so I hope she gets enough vitamins.
A murder case - how scary! Some people feel safer in cities for this kind of reasons, but to me, less crowded areas seem safer, at least I know most of the people... my neighbour found a dead body earlier this year. The police didn't really identify who it was and we think they abandoned the case...

I've been watching that girl from Portugal on youtube and the fire was so close to her land! Only the smoke reached her but that can be toxic... at leat that area is safe now, I think?

Riona, congratulations, I don't grow cucumbers or any water-needy plants anymore :D I decided to be stubborn and only have plants that can resist my very limited watering and the constant slug invasion... meaning that I have mostly raspberries, blackberries, currants and herbs. And a lot of garlic ;) someone said that it's easier to raise animals than to grow vegetables or fruits, and I think that's true in my case.

I was waiting for my motivation to make art to return, but that's not going to happen so I just have to force myself to sit and do the work ;) so I can wait until all the beautiful books are ready to be presented to the world...
So... here is a pile of books which I will use to write the things I have to write... on the bottom is my first book by Joel Salatin ever, it arrived yesterday! There is also my sketchbook and a poetry book by Amal El-Mohtar, titled "The Honey Month". We'll see if I can get farming books and poetry books into one bibliography... but now I'll run to the garden to bring my quails a bouquet of herbs, as they're patiently waiting in a cage, until I winter-proof their aviary...

Flora Eerschay wrote: A broody hen would save me a lot of work in the early days I guess... that seems to be rare in their case, but they do start to show more natural instincts now that they live in the aviary, for example the roo brings "gifts" to the hens...

Hubby has about 80 Industrial chickens for his small egg business. (Direct sale to our local region.) This year 2 of the girls went broody, and each managed to hatch out 5 chicks and both are being wonderful mothers to them.

Yes, it does save some work on my part, but mostly the chicks get imprinted on a Chicken and taught better chicken behavior skills than a Human can teach. Yes, many basic skills  are instinctual, but moms are still the best in my book!

PS: Salty has 5 healthy ducklings, but sadly a 6th died at birth. Salty is looking *very* happy!