COLD PACKED RABBIT READY FOR THE CANNER

FINAL PRODUCT

LUNCH

FRESH FROM THE GARDEN

SATURDAY TO DO LIST

I LOVE THE WORK IS SLOWING DOWN A BIT AND I GET ONE OR TWO DAYS OFF ON THE WEEKENDS TO GET WORK DONE. THERE IS SOOOO MUCH TO DO. HERE IS TODAY'S LIST:

LAUNDRY
LITTERBOX
CLEAN BATHROOMS
CLEAN LIVING ROOM
FRONT PORCH: COMPLETLY RE-ARRANGE, STACK STARTER WOOD FOR CHIMINEA, MOVE AROUND PORCH FURNITURE UNTIL IT LOOKS NICE, SWEEP
TRANSPLANT TOMATOS INTO LARGER CONTAINERS
TRANSPLANT MARIGOLDS INTO GARDEN
TRANSPLANT EXPERIMENT BEANS TO THE GARDEN
PLANT HORSERADISH INTO LARGE CONTAINER FOR THE PORCH
PLANT FUNNY PORCH GARDEN THINGY
MOVE MULCH TO THE GARDEN
CUT DOWN SCRUB TREES AROUND THE YARD AND SIDE YARD
RAKE UP TONS OF PINE CONES FROM THE TREE CUTTING
MOVE THE REST OF THE SCRAP WOOD PILE
BURN TRASH
TURN COMPOST PILE AND ADD RABBIT POO
MOVE LARGE ROCKS TO THE GARDEN TO BLOCK RABBIT HOLES
MOW
CLEAN FRIDGE

BUT RIGHT NOW I AM WAITING FOR THE ADVIL TO TAKE EFFECT SO I CAN DO ALL OF THIS

WHO YOU LOOKIN AT???

POTATOS AND WALKING DEAD?

JUST BEFORE GOING TO MY SISTERS HOUSE TO WATCH THE SECOND SEASON OF THE WALKING DEAD, I PLANTED WHITE AND YUKON GOLD POTATOS IN MY NEW BED. YAY!

ANOTHER WORK DAY...KIND OF

Wow did I sleep well last night. Woke at 5:30am and snuggled with the kitty for another hour thinking about what I want to get accomplished today.

Then got up and poached a duck egg for breakfast over toasted homemade bread with hot sweet jasmine tea.



Checking my seedlings as I do everyday, I see that the marigolds are developing secondary leaves and a pumpkin is sprouted.





Prepping todays lunch. Last year I canned beef and potatos. Last week I dehydrated a large package of frozen veggie mix and a large package of "season mix" which is mainly onions and bell peppers.





Today I took 1 cup of veggies and 1/2 cup of season mix and added 4 cups of boiling water.

I will saute garlic and then add flour and cook until toasty brown. Then will add the beef broth and some water and salt and pepper. Then add the beef and veggies and cook until thick.

Served today after church with home made buttermilk bread. This will fill up tummies and will energize my grand boys into doing chores (maybe)

COLD DAY

I am chilled to my deepest inside parts! It was 24 when I woke this morning...and I slept late. I drank a cup of jasmine tea and enjoyed the morning. I picked up my helper at 11 and by noon we had purchased 150lb of animal feed, and a post puller. We got home and he and I moved 2 more raised beds from back to the front new garden area, laid out another 300sf of heavy black plastic under the new beds and on the sides and ends, then while I built two round wire compost bins, he pulled 50 t posts and took down 100ft of wire fence.

We cut it in half and rolled it up and dragged it over to the new garden area. I trimmed back the huge red tipped photenias that are on the back of the garden so we could work and so the beds would get good morning sun. He removed 16 t posts and drove them into the laid plastic on the perimeter of the new garden area. Then we ran the old wire fence around the new garden area. Then he mounted two of my curtain brackets and we removed the tool box from the back of my truck because I now need 2 yards of dirt to fill the rest of the beds.

I have one 4x8x10" bed full to the top with wonderful garden dirt/compost blend and one 2'x8x14" bed half full of garden dirt. This is the potato bed. I will check the calendar and see if I can plant tomorrow. As the plants grow I will add more dirt until it is full to the top.

It never got over 39 today and the wind blew all day hard.

Although I kept on gloves and a hat I am still very chilled.

I have taken 3 advils and every muscle on my body still hurts. I am going to take a hot shower and will relax the rest of the evening under a thick soft blanket.