Story of my life: I should have done more research. The truth is, I get overwhelmed when there are a million choices, so I just pick one that appears to meet my needs and just go with it. It’s easier to figure out what I need when I get to using something, and boy, this was evident in the first week. Who signs up to blog with a host that doesn’t have a blogging platform? Me. But in classic C. Erica Burton Original style, I made it work (until I could move…
Category: Money
How we found ourselves $276,243.63 in debt
April 8, 2016. I’m not going into details today about the circumstances surrounding it, but this was a burdensome, heavy-hearted day in my life. An informal, undocumented loan was called due by text message at 3:30 AM, followed up by an email at around 4:30 AM, net seven days, mind you, so I applied online that evening to four different reputable lenders. The next morning, my local credit union dumped fifteen grand into my checking account and it was official. I was the deepest in debt I had ever been in…
Inaugural Post – Owning Burton Farm is Born
We Homestead. We Money. And now, we Blog. Welcome to the inaugural post by Owning Burton Farm at owningburtonfarm.com. These are the first of several posts that are going in the ground to support the fence for the garden. I said I didn’t want to put in a lot of effort on a garden if the goats and the dogs are running loose. I only play to win and that right there’s a losing game, I already know. Jenny, our one year-old dog has ripped out the last four small seedlings I’ve planted in my front door containers,…
March 2014 – Posts Imported as a single post.
Chicken Coop Progress Report – March 16, 2014 This is the overturned cast-away bottom half of a plastic dog house that they’ve been sleeping in since we moved them out last month. They’re so big now, that they can’t ALL fit in there!! We HAVE to do something! The chicken coop is a project we had planned on building in three stages. We have decided we are at a MUST BUILD point for the Pre-Permanent Coop. We have acquired a full sized door, some used tin sheets to repurpose…