Still focusing on the garden today.
Done:
- got into farm clothes
- emptied night bucket
- coffee
- started Tummy Beast blog entry, updated Trello
- filled all the water bottles in the kitchen, reminded Hugh to bring out the ones in his room
- reorganised my "study" in the learning room to have the
portfolio-stuffing station on the bookshelf
- started Hugh's 2020 portfolio, finished planning food for the day
- did one tank's worth of slashing in top orchard - thoroughly cleared next section for sheet mulching, including excavating all the rocks/bricks etc which had stopped me going right up to the cottage wall before now
- rest and rehydration break, made mineral water
- printed out portfolio labels for previous years, added to folders
- Eric collected a car full of paper and cardboard and three more bags of horse poo (excellent husband!)
- unpacked car (with Eric's help); did first tranche of sheet mulching
- did a second tranche of sheet mulching before it started raining
- harvested carrots, kale and silverbeet for satay tofu noodles
- made satay tofu noodles
To Do - Inside:
- menu plan and shopping list (after gardening)
- catch up on Monday phone calls/contacts
- work on handwriting with Hugh
- water rest of the indoor plants
- put away Solstice stick
- reset altar for Lughnasadh/Lammas, make a herb wreath
- 15 minutes tidying up in my bedroom
- empty compost
- empty cat litter tray
- cook lentil spaghetti sauce for Dan
- cook rice; make spinach rice pie
- make hummus
- clean out my fridge, freeze black bananas
- make rhubarb applesauce, and make some into chia puddings
- showered, cleaned teeth and dressed; wizarding walk, return library books
- 9:30pm electronic curfew and bedtime
To Do - Outside (Monday-Tuesday):
- do one tank's worth of slashing in plum orchard/windbreak bed/path
- weed out grass inside apple tree's tyre
- cut back bush in windbreak
- do a bonus tank's worth of slashing in the bottom chook run
- harvest silverbeet for spinach rice pie
- harvest rhubarb
- fix hoop houses, plant seedlings
- throw ash around the young plum trees (use a ladder)
- deadhead roses
- by Dan's cottage
- in front garden
- block geese's access to the tomatoes in the courtyard with wire/netting
- give geese more bedding
To Do - Inside + minimal outside (Wednesday-Friday):
- water courtyards twice a day; water raised beds and guild pods once a day
- compost smoothies
- water
rest of the indoor plants; repot umbrella tree or ficus into the new
brass pot and rearrange that corner; add a hook for the new plant hanger
- supermarket shopping, tip shop etc
- collect load of free timber etc in Waterloo (Friday)
- work on steampunk costume
- finish reorganising my "study" in the learning room to have the portfolio-stuffing station on the bookshelf - need to go through the in-trays and file portfolio stuff, relabel Dan's tray, and declutter/stocktake stationery supplies
- change my bedlinen
- dirty laundry round-up
- sort clean laundry and put away
- put in load of laundry #1
- put in load of laundry #2
- put in load of laundry #3
- hung out load of laundry #1
- hung out load of laundry #2
- hung out load of laundry #3
- write to grandparents
- write monthly letter to Barony
- enrol Dan in MTC
- make hair appointments for D&H
- update 2020 online portfolio with recent things; make online portfolio entries for Summer Camp
- print/file dividers for Hugh's portfolio, print layout for Summer Camp, file printed stuff, add label to folder
- write an explainer for Dan's Patreon and the SPG fandom
- start 2019 reports, 2020 HESPs
- check which months are missing for 2019; compile/print any missing monthly notes for 2019
- January (less urgent)
- February (less urgent)
- April (less urgent)
- August
- November
- December
