A Journal of My Days: 5/26/23

The weather has turned cooler, in fact so much cooler that hubby and I needed to wear a jacket this morning while mowing the yard and doing yard work.  We were quite surprised!

In the Garden: I did more planting this week:  dill, zucchini, okra, and eggplant.

I harvested cabbage, spring green onions, radishes, swiss chard, and squash!  

We started digging our potatoes and were blessed with a good yield.  The rest will be dug sometime during the next couple of weeks.

In the Pantry:  Hubby was given several freshly caught bass fish late one evening. 

After he cleaned and dressed them, we had enough for a meal the next day and enough to freeze for two meals to have at a later date. They were added to the freezer part of our pantry.

I took all the discarded parts of the fish after hubby finished cleaning them and buried it all in a raised bed to turn into fertilizer!

Fish remains make an excellent fertilizer!

The fish itself was rolled in cornmeal and deep fried.  It was so good!

We were gifted more strawberries this week and I made strawberry freezer jam.  

Of course, we ate our fill of them too!

In the Kitchen:  I made two meatloaves, one for us and one to share.

Fitness: I wrote the following quote by journey2better.tera in my fitness journal:  "You absolutely have to work for the things you want!"  My thoughts:  you sure do, especially when it comes to one's fitness!

Sewing: I worked some more on the apron I'm making of the fabric I was gifted a couple of weeks ago. I'm almost finished and hope to have a completed apron to share with you next week.

The 25th day of the month fell this week and as is my goal, I did something towards Christmas preparation.  For this month I chose to do some additional planning and prep in my Christmas journal.  I got several pages ready to start making entries for things like food, gifts, activities, cards and more.

In my Bible study, I started a second Scripture writing endeavor, this time focusing on topics.  You can read more about it HERE along with the topic I chose to start with.

Bargain Hunting:  This week our bargain hunting took us to a local farmstand where I found these 2 eggplant plants on clearance for $.25 each.  You can see in the first picture that they are root bound but otherwise the plant looks healthy.  I 'unbound' the roots, snipped off the bottom leaves and planted them deep.  

I had every intention of planting eggplant seeds this week, but when I came across these plants at such a great price, I opted to go this route instead.  

I was asked by Annabel over at The Bluebirds are Nesting on the Farm to write a post for her Bluebirds on the Ground series.  You can read what I wrote HERE.

That's it for this week, I hope you've had a good week!

Until next time,

patsi @ A Working Pantry

She looketh well to the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27 

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