A Journal of My Days 2024: 3/18
The theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as little money as possible.”
(picture: our iris's are really showing off ... pure beauty!)
This week our temps have been in the mid-80's for a good part of the week! This of course, meant I was outside ... working in the yard and garden and in the pollen! I'm not exaggerating when I say that it has been so bad this week that there was a haze of green pollen in the air most of the week. It settled on the vehicles, on standing water and on my eyeglasses! The lenses of my eyeglasses had a green pollen film on them!
Oh, my aching everything! Even though I try to get in at least 30 minutes of exercise every day, using a hoe and a shovel and pushing a wheelbarrow along with lots of bending up and down uses muscles that obviously don't get used enough in my regular exercise routine. Even though I am sore, it is a good sore and a contented sore, if that makes sense.
So what did my week look like and what did I do to get my 'everything' aching all over. Let's find out ...
In the Vegetable Garden: Since this job ultimately benefits the vegetable garden (as in chicken poo for fertilizer), I'm including it here. I started shoveling out the chicken coop this week and hauled away several buckets of chicken poo to the compost pile and to containers that won't have anything planted in them for several weeks yet.
I noticed that the cabbage seeds I planted a couple of weeks ago are coming up. This made me very happy as they are old seeds as in 2 plus years old seeds!
Our potatoes are coming up as are our beets. The cabbage and broccoli have gotten off to a good start and my mixed greens are just about ready to start eating.
(pictured: cabbage and broccoli plants)
I planted tomato seeds this week as well. It was a busy week in the yard and garden. Speaking of the yard, we mowed it for the first time this year and you know what that means. It means that all the winter sticks and debris have to be picked up. I had started cleaning up the yard a few weeks back, but you sure couldn't tell it the day we mowed. I think I bent up and down, it felt like a few hundred times!
With the warmer temperatures, our early spring garden is thriving ... and so are the weeds! Yep, I started weeding the row garden this week along with cleaning out several more containers in my container garden. (The chickens enjoyed the weeds!)
Did I mention that our blueberry bushes are full of blooms. I tried to get a picture, but it just didn't turn out right.
One more thing before we move on to the next category ...I harvested the first of the asparagus for this year.
Yes, spring is definitely here!
In the Kitchen: I made more bread and hoagie rolls, this time for the purpose of freezing.With us going into a very busy gardening season, everything I can cook ahead and get in the freeze will make things easier.
Nothing to report this week except that I found a free blouse pattern that I really want to make! I just added it to the always growing sewing list!
Bible Study: I completed and posted lesson 22 in our ladies Bible study on Esther. It can be found HERE.
I also download the Bible memory verse app, Verse Locker to help me memorize scripture. My hubby learned of this app from a friend of his. Part of the Proverbs study that I'm doing involves memorizing Scripture and I think this app will help. So far, we're memorizing Proverbs 1:7 and Proverbs 23:17. I've got the first one memorized and am working on the second.
In the Herb Garden: I pulled Stevia seeds from my seed bucket and read up on the best time to plant, which is after our last frost date, the first part of April. I used to grow stevia and want to start doing it again.
In the Flower Garden: still waiting on that 'warm enough weather' to plant the seeds. It won't be much longer!
Continuing Education/Skills: I'm working on my herbal education again. This week I did further research on nettles, mullein and detoxing the body through the use of herbal teas. Nettles are known for helping with allergies (I'm currently enjoying a small amount in my morning kefir smoothie.), mullein is known as a respiratory aid and of course detoxing the body helps the liver.
Also, I continue to collect herbal tea recipes and add to my list of herbs I need/want to grow for those teas.
This week’s frugal quote/discussion topic … Frugality doesn't happen without effort. What are your thoughts?
That’s it for this week, what has your week looked like?
until next time,
mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry
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