tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43596189079268895202024-03-19T04:48:49.082-04:00Mrs. Patsi @ A Working Pantrypatsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.comBlogger618125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-4956934625469133992024-03-18T05:00:00.054-04:002024-03-18T05:00:00.128-04:00A Journal of My Days: 3/18/24A Journal of My Days 2024: 3/18The 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 patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-81849750936527035862024-03-17T05:00:00.016-04:002024-03-17T05:00:00.144-04:00Use It Up Food Challenge: 3/17/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of food that patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-17257113709765172332024-03-15T07:25:00.000-04:002024-03-15T07:25:07.747-04:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #11This was week two in our month of 'relaxing' our intensity of hunkering down and it has been a quiet week in our home. We've kept it simple ...We did a small stock up on some pantry basics at Sam's Club still staying well within our budgeted amount. We paid the bills that were due this week thanking God that we were able to do so. So many are struggling to keep their patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-75217461625881410552024-03-11T05:00:00.112-04:002024-03-11T05:00:00.127-04:00A Journal of My Days 2024: 3/11A Journal of My Days 2024:
3/11
The
theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as
little money as possible.”
(picture: an iris in my front yard.)Let’s
see how we did this week …
In the Vegetable Garden: I planted storage onions and the last of the potatoes. I staggered the planting of our potatoes this year so that they wouldn't all be ready patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-15225309014631330822024-03-10T05:00:00.011-04:002024-03-10T07:40:38.461-04:00Use It Up Food Challenge: 3/10/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of food that patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-33008198321371646702024-03-08T05:00:00.006-05:002024-03-08T05:00:00.129-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #10This was week one in our month of 'relaxing' our intensity of hunkering down, so let's see what it looked like ...We paid all the bills that were due this week and on one we paid a little extra. Not a lot, but every little bit adds up! We don't want to get out of the habit of chipping away at our debt, we're just making the chips smaller this month.We added to our savings this week aspatsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-89294961233964089272024-03-07T09:52:00.005-05:002024-03-07T09:57:09.274-05:00Learning or Improving Upon Skills: Kefir CheeseIf you read last week's A Journal of My Days, you will know that the skill I've chosen to learn or improve upon this month is all things dairy.This week I've chosen two old dairy skills to revive and improve upon: kefir cheese and yogurt.This post is about how I made kefir cheese this week ...Working with what I had, I pulled a 2-quart glass pitcher from my cabinet and this colander. patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-56803257230978035412024-03-04T05:00:00.009-05:002024-03-04T20:20:41.114-05:00A Journal of My Days 2024: 3/4The
theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as
little money as possible.”
Let’s
see how we did this week …
In the Vegetable Garden: A friend gifted us with 2 blueberry
bushes, and I planted them in the orchard at the end of two of our raised beds.
I also
planted some cabbage seeds and did some weeding … yes, weeding! One area of my parsley patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-41359854060984745222024-03-03T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-03T05:00:00.126-05:00Use It Up Food Challenge: 3/3/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of food that patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-59459867420738893922024-03-01T05:00:00.042-05:002024-03-01T05:00:00.132-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #9Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #9
Today is the first day of March but before we get caught
up in planning our financial goals for the new month, we need to see how we did
in February. Did we meet any, some or
all of our financial goals? Let’s take a
look …
Here’s what our February goals were …
Our savings goal for this month is to save at least $1 more
than we did last month, we’re patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-82740421853105434082024-02-26T05:00:00.039-05:002024-02-26T05:00:00.241-05:00A Journal of My Days 2024: 2/26The
theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as
little money as possible.”
Let’s
see how we did this week …(picture: One of our roosters was cutting loose in a hearty cock-a-doodle-do!!!)
In the Vegetable Garden: We got our potatoes (Red Pontiac) planted!!! I also planted some peas (Little Marvel), leeks, beets and staked my claim on a row patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-85791345302013069992024-02-25T05:00:00.014-05:002024-03-07T10:00:50.001-05:00Use it Up Food Challenge: 2/25/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of food that patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-416971939416844832024-02-23T05:00:00.010-05:002024-02-23T05:00:00.250-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #8This week has been a normal week in regard to our budgeting and spending. After last week, that was welcomed!There is just a bit less than one week left in this month and the anticipation of meeting this month's financial goal is building in both my hubby and me.We speak of it often, which is a good way to keep it in the forefront of our minds. We want to meet this month's goal patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-45541229221832789732024-02-19T05:00:00.003-05:002024-02-19T12:12:23.171-05:00A Journal of My Days 2024: 2/19The
theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as
little money as possible.”
Let’s
see how we did this week …(picture: rhubarb)
In the Garden: I worked on getting seed potatoes
ready to plant so that we could plant them when the weather
cooperates.
I also
shelled out dried fall peas from last fall’s harvest. I got those shelled outpatsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-45815841835002077222024-02-18T05:00:00.001-05:002024-02-18T05:00:00.236-05:00Use it Up Food Challenge: 2/18/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-75295321542167153332024-02-16T05:00:00.010-05:002024-02-16T05:00:00.246-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #7Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #7
This has been a mixed week of saving, stretching and oh no … additional
expenses. It seems like every time we turned around there was an unexpected
small expense that popped up.
It was just that kind of week.
The good news is that all of it fit in and under one of our budget categories for the month, so we are still good. patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-67390847063526354002024-02-12T05:00:00.003-05:002024-02-12T05:00:00.145-05:00A Journal of My Days 2024: 2/12The
theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as
little money as possible.”
Let’s
see how we did this week …
In the Garden: Hubby borrowed a friend's tractor and disked up our row garden. In return we're sharing bunching onion plants with him as he hasn't been able to find any in our area. We've been growing them for years and have patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-71370020338744569092024-02-11T05:00:00.003-05:002024-02-11T05:00:00.134-05:00Use It Up Food Challenge: 2/11/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of food patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-24116603594476968452024-02-09T05:00:00.002-05:002024-02-09T05:00:00.275-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week # 6Hunkering Down in 2024:
Week #6
There’s something almost magical about reaching week number 6
in our journey. It's a milestone that says if we can do this
for 6 weeks, we can do it longer! The
next milestone we’re aiming for is the 3-month mark.We think we can! We think we can! We think we can!
So, what did hunkering down look like for us during the 6th
week?
patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-53641038135100449522024-02-05T05:00:00.005-05:002024-02-05T20:11:34.614-05:00A Journal of My Days: 2/5/24 The
theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as
little money as possible.”
Let’s
see how we did this week …In the Garden: We had a couple of days last week that
hit the upper 50’s and lower 60’s. As
soon as my household chores were completed for the day I headed outside.
I also
worked on cleaning up and even moved a few of our containerpatsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-27825505278359831772024-02-04T05:00:00.001-05:002024-02-04T05:00:00.261-05:00Use It Up Food Challenge: 2/4/24 What is a 'Use It Up Food' challenge? It's about food waste or more specifically not wasting food ... It's about repurposing our leftovers into another dish, It's about using every part of fruits and vegetables, It's about using up the really small amounts of food ...It's about using up food scraps, peels and stems ...It's about being mindful of every bit of food that patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-47719757465741726232024-02-02T05:00:00.001-05:002024-02-02T05:00:00.146-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #5Hunkering Down in 2024:
Week #5
The end of January is finally here, and I can do the tally to
see how we did ‘hunkering down’ financially for the month.
Did we meet our goals of adding to our savings and paying off
the first debt in our debt snowball?
YES.WE.DID!
It was not fun at times!
It meant that we had to say ‘NO’ to some things we wanted to
do!
It meant that we did indeed patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-43852373935221385622024-01-29T05:00:00.001-05:002024-01-29T05:00:00.135-05:00A Journal of My Days: 1/29/24(Picture: We started out the week needing this fire, but by the end of the week we were walking around outside in short sleeves as in temps in the upper 7o's and low 80's. What a crazy weather week it's been!)The theme for this year is “Laser focused, hunkered down and spending as little money as possible.”
Let’s see how we did this week …
In the Garden:
I spent time patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-2178409894888041262024-01-28T05:00:00.002-05:002024-01-28T05:00:00.196-05:00Use It Up Food Challenge 2024: 1/28What is a 'Use It Up Food'
challenge?
It's about food waste or
more specifically not wasting food ...
It's about repurposing our
leftovers into another dish,
It's about using every
part of fruits and vegetables,
It's about using up the
really small amounts of food ...
It's about using up food
scraps, peels and stems ...
It's about being mindful
of every bit of food patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359618907926889520.post-60563933366725548142024-01-26T05:00:00.001-05:002024-01-26T05:00:00.130-05:00Hunkering Down in 2024: Week #4Hunkering Down in 2024:
Week #4
We’ve been hunkering down financially for 4 weeks now, next
week I’ll do an overall view of January combined with a kick start for February
and answer the question of did we meet our financial goals for January.
However, since we have almost another full week to go before
the month ends, we need to keep our focus on the here and now.
That can patsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570517928939568824noreply@blogger.com22