Tuesday 12 November

Done:

• made my bed
• emptied night bucket
• breakfast, coffee
• put away one section of drying up so I could do some of the washing up that Eric had left to go manky overnight
• updated Weekly Dashboard, blogs
• did a small load of washing up so I can eat
• took Dan to doctor
• went wizarding
• ate lunch
• got cysts chopped out of my head
• fell over and achieved nothing else for the rest of the day

Sunday 10 November

Done:

• breakfast, coffee
• distributed birthday presents for the Smoo
• assisted in the preparations for making the birthday breakfast request of Eggs Benedict (ie. working out how many of the ingredients we didn't have and sending Eric to buy them)
• finished writing Imbolc to Bealtaine retrospective on Old Briar Farm
• got into farm clothes
• did a tank's worth of slashing at the bottom of the leach field (including bracken/blackberries)
• showered and dressed to shoes
• made rainbow quinoa salad bowl with satay sauce for lunch
• researched raw vegan recipes
• made Hugh creamy tomato pasta for (late) lunch
• researched more raw recipes
• made 8 days' worth of amazeballs
• set Dan a challenge to go through their vegetarian recipe book and find some new recipes they thought they might like, and set a day each week (Friday) to teach them to cook 
• made Massaman curry and put rice on to cook

To Do:

• go wizarding

Saturday 9 November

Done:

• fed the cat
• unswaddled the capsicums and tomatoes from their blankets; rescued the basket of strawberries from the precarious hook
• breakfast, coffee, reading the papers
• started new blogs; updated Weekly Dashboard for a new week; proposed doing the family cleaning today instead of tomorrow (Hugh's birthday)
• dirty laundry round-up
• brought in dry laundry from wood shed, sorted and put away
• made lunch
• followed the progress of the Crown tourney (both Wulfgar and Oze knocked out before the finals)
• showered and dressed to shoes, cleaned teeth
• went wizarding with Dan
• did some other stuff...?
• made a green smoothie for dinner

Friday 8 November

Done:

• coffee, breakfast, started updating blogs etc
• set up a Gmail filter to stop getting distracted by Academia.edu emails
• got into farm clothes
• planted, staked capsicums
• emptied rest of the tip shop loot out of car
• measured the length of the planned brushwood fence and put in new stakes
• put in a load of laundry (towels, linen)
• showered and dressed to shoes, cleaned teeth
• made lunch (Thai peanut quinoa rainbow salad)
• hung out load of laundry in wood shed
• made fruit and nut chocolate
• went wizarding with Dan
• walked up the road to find out why the police car was parked across the corner - to find the local tow truck winching yet another car out of our gully *sigh*
• dirty laundry round-up
• emptied night bucket
• planted tomato seedlings into square pots between #5-#6; mulched with hemlock and chicken bedding
• started weeding the raised bed in Dan's courtyard
• cooked tofu stir fry and rice for dinner

Thursday 7 November

Done:

• made bed
• breakfast, coffee, B12 supplement, read the intertubes
• updated Weekly dashboard, blogs
• watered plants
• dirty laundry round-up
• changed towels, bathmat, teatowels, hand towels
• put in a load of laundry (clothes)
• changed cat litter
• worked on Alfonso
• had lunch
• made the remaining trellis wire into three tomato cages, installed them in #2, added a stake for the fourth tomato (Sweetie)
• lit the fire'
• hung out in the beanbag reading Simon Doubleday's biography of Alfonso, which have never managed to get more than a quarter of the way through despite it being thoroughly readable

To Do:

• Alfonso
• leftovers management/food prep
• maybe plant capsica if it stops raining long enough

Wednesday 6 November

Done:

• made bed
• breakfast, coffee
• more Alfonso research
• showered and washed hair, dressed to shoes, cleaned teeth
• finished shopping list
• Huonville:
• Billy Hill
• tip shop
• lunch and more study at DS cafe
• Nisha's HFS
• Salamanca Fresh
• Woolworths
• Mitre 10
• got home around 5pm, did more stuff? didn't write it down...

Tuesday 5 November

Done:

• made my bed
• fed the cat
• breakfast, coffee, read Guardian, Feedly etc
• emptied the compost bucket
• dirty laundry round-up, put on a load of laundry (clothes)
• rang Venus and Mars to try to make appointments for the kids - left a message
• rang Bethany Smith to try to make an appointment for Dan - left a message
• B12 supplement, cleaned teeth
• brought in dry laundry from woodshed, sorted and put away
• hung out laundry #1 (plus extras that were in a basket), put in a new load of laundry (towels, linen)
• [11:30] put up Do Not Disturb sign - working on Alfonso
• talked to Beth re some concerns she had about Dan's Instagram content
• Bethany rang back, made appointment for 29 November 
• [1:00] stopped for lunch
• printed and read Szpiech on filiation and sonship
• hung out load of towels/linen
• printed and read Burns' intro to Stupor Mundi
• showered, changed broken bootlace in my Docs, got dressed to shoes, went wizarding with Dan
• went back to struggle with Alfonso some more, managed to write a new paragraph although I'm not entirely sure if it fits where I've got it
• [6:30] gave up braining for the day

To Do:

Monday 4 November

Done:

• coffee
• fed the cat
• worked on Monday Phone Calls/Contacts block
• completed Centrelink report
• worked on online portfolio
• consulted Dan on recipe suggestions for things they do or think they might actually eat, updated board
• started menu planning; planned my food for the day
• finished menu plan, including consulting Hugh re his birthday meals
• showered, dressed to shoes, cleaned teeth
• went to doctor's appointment, made an appointment to get cysts removed next Tuesday (yay!); stayed out and did some wizarding
• picked buk choy, silverbeet, lettuce, chickweed, gotu kola and spinach leaves for a green smoothie, and a radish for someone who likes radishes
• made a green smoothie for lunch
• talked to Adela re choosing to transition to Bethany Smith in Huonville
• made hummus
• handwriting with Hugh
• went through The Science of Cooking, a C16th Hungarian/Transylvanian cookbook, with Hugh, starting a new A&S project for Twelfth Night (theme: Eastern Europe)
• fixed the door of the hoop house with Hugh
• finished reading through the cookbook and started compiling the recipes we'd noted as possibilities
• ate a square of satay tofu as a snack
• started making dinner (with Hugh's help)
• continued reading the Transylvanian cookbook, did a bit of reading up about medieval Transylvania and Hungary to make sure that it qualifies for "Eastern Europe"

To Do:

Sunday 3 November

Done:

• emptied night buckets
• coffee, breakfast
• paid for Dan's musical theatre workshop
• swept kitchen floor, induced Dan to put (most of) the washing up away
• swept hallway, bathroom, living room and learning room floor
• updated Weekly Dashboard, started Tummy Beast blog entry
• wrangled cats regarding doing more house cleaning (E vacuuming, H dusting/spiderwebs, D mopping)
• remembered about the HVT Kids Drama Club meet this afternoon and found out we have enough cash to take Dan after all
• dirty laundry round-up, put in a load of laundry (clothes)
• hung out load of laundry from yesterday (towels)
• brought in dry laundry from wood shed, sorted and put away
• supervised Hugh and Dan; scrubbed the scungiest bits of the kitchen floor
• changed cat litter
• ate lunch (leftover satay noodles)
• brought in laundry from outside line
• took Dan to Huon Valley Theatre Drama Club, went wizarding
• ate dinner
• hung out laundry
• 10 minutes handwriting with Hugh
• took Dan to Silver Words

Saturday 2 November

Done:

• breakfast (well, okay, leftover cheezecake), coffee
• put on a load of laundry (clothes)
• gave Eric a F&V shopping list; unpacked F&V shopping
• did portfolio layouts recording Dan's recent obsession with music theory channels
• researched for some interesting books on geography topics to get Hugh for Christmas. Ideas:
• Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth: Australian Native Foods Recipes and Sources
• What the World Eats
• What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal
• did dirty laundry round-up
• put in laundry #2 (clothes)
• put away last of the plastics which the kids boycott; induced E to do the washing up
• went through fridge and removed old food
• made lunch (last of the leftover curries from Monday, served on quinoa)
• updated Weekly Dashboard (in progress); finished Brick House entry and monthly notes for October
• changed towels (not bathmat)
• showered, dressed to shoes, cleaned teeth, moisturised face
• hung out three loads of laundry; put in a load of laundry (towels)
• started new weekly Brick House entry; started November Monthly Notes file; started daily Tummy Beast entry
• went through the first few sections of the Game of Life maths workbook with Dan; then discussed scheduling regular sit-down lessons with Eric during the week that work with their other commitments (1pm for half an hour on days when everyone is home, starting Monday)
• transplanted five calendula seedlings to the inside fenceline of the potato patch
• tied up the loose netting on the netting house
• ate a food
• finished updating Weekly Dashboard; finished editing, printing and filing October monthly notes 
• went wizarding with Dan
• 10 minutes handwriting practice with Hugh
• put chickpea Massaman curry in the slowcooker, tidied up after myself
• made a cup of tea and a hashbrown toastie
• watered the plants, opened #5 and emptied compost bucket into it, cleared kitchen table, put remaining squishy bananas into the freezer, discussed dinner ideas with E
• sewed second line of black ribbon onto Eric's blue tunic
• had dinner
• took Massaman curry out of crockpot and put it in the fridge so it didn't turn into sludge overnight

Friday 1 November

Done

• breakfast, coffee
• emptied cat litter
• raked up one barrow of grass (from tyre beds) and gave it to the chickens
• raked up two barrows of grass and hemlock (from leach field) and filled #3
• rest and hydration break
• raked up one barrow of grass and hemlock (from leach field) and added it to potato patch
• raked up one barrow of grass (from tyre beds) and gave it to the geese
• showered and dressed, ate lunch
• went down to shops for extra feast ingredients with Dan, did wizarding
• started prep for feast
• cooked a lot, supervised Hugh and Dan cooking
• ate food, made an offering at the hawthorn tree with Dan
• fell in heap