We are halfway through the year. Six months are gone, and just less than six months are left — which of your goals have you accomplished? I don’t believe goals are a static thing; I believe they change and evolve as we progress and learn more. Something that might have seemed very important to accomplish, may not seem as much–or at all–important once you learn more about it, or vice-versa.

So here’s my halfway recap of how I’m doing,  on my goals for 2012, that I’ll share with you. (As always, I have included links–highlighted in green–to my old posts in case you missed them.)

Goals Accomplished

• We are now debt-free (according to our defined goal, there are exceptions).
• We now own two female and one male American Chinchilla Rabbits, we will begin breeding in October.
• We inspected and rotated our BOB, etc. in March (though the goal was February).

Goals We’re Still Working On

• I plan to add some solar panels — I need to do additional research.
• We’re actively working on getting a diesel pickup truck.
• I’m continuing to blog through September. At that point I’ll probably just post once a week, or more if something specific comes up.
• Learn to make yogurt — I just need to do it.
• Learn to brew beer — it’s kind of a cop-out, but I’m waiting for my friend to move back here who already brews beer and have him teach me (I’ve had to self learn so many new things, it’d be nice just to have someone teach me).
• We’ll probably get a pressure cooker when it’s time to start canning.
• We’re growing cabbage and hope to make sauerkraut, and other fermented foods, this fall.
• We’re planning to budget money to buy extra rice and beans, for neighbors, in a couple of months.
• We recently got our book Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and now need to start learning what’s around us.
• I still need to update our evacuation/emergency documentation notebook — it’s on my to do list.
• We still need to find a source and order/buy 1/2 cord of firewood.

Goals We’ve Postponed or Cancelled

• We’ve put off getting honey bees until next spring.
• A storage unit near potential BOL has been put on hold; we’re considering getting an RV as a BOV/temporary BOL.
• I had forgotten about the bicycle until I reviewed this list. While I still think it’s a good idea but it’s not going to happen this year.
• I’m probably going to put off learning to make soap until next year (or so).
• We forgot to get ground nut seeds, we’ll put that on next year’s list.
• I probably won’t learn to fish this year, maybe I’ll find someone to go with during salmon season but they’re pretty passionate about it and it comes at a busy time of the year.

The year is halfway, are we halfway to our goals? No. But we’re doing okay. And, as always, other things have come up:

• Building a greenhouse.
• Expanding the garden and significantly improving the soil.
• The rabbits have taken more time than expected (including building a rabbitry).
• We’re–slowly, but surely–expanding our prepper community.
• I’ve been hiking regularly with the dog and my pack (and I reached my goal of 70 pounds).
• Bringing on guest bloggers to post regularly.
• Survived/thrived during a multi-day winter storm power outage.

Review where you are, what you’ve done, do what you can, and know where you’re going. Continue–or start–working a little bit each week to make yourself and your family more self-reliant and self-sufficient.

(Wednesday: RV As A BOV/BOL?)