Thursday 9 January

Done:

• emptied night buckets, made my bed
• harvested snowpeas and lettuce for breakfast
• coffee, breakfast
• got into farm clothes
• weeded grass; deadheaded foxglove, penstemon and calendula; dug out and re-set some of the bricks in the border between garden bed and steps
• let the geese and guinea fowl out
• pulled out two long bed edgings from the middle chook run and started working out bed placement in the trapezoidal bed at the top of the apothecary/kitchen garden; overheated in the sun and ended up weeding the bricks in the shade instead
• watered containers in the courtyard; harvested greens for lunch
• made a batch of TVP/butter bean sausages and ate two for lunch, with a side of sauteed greens
• removed pear and cherry slugs on the nashi by coating leaves with wood ash
• continued updating Trello dashboard
• dirty laundry round-up
• change towels, bathmat, hand towels and tea towels
• put in a load of laundry
• brought in dry laundry from wood shed and line
• changed cat litter tray 
• deadheaded more calendula
• harvested rhubarb and silverbeet
• made rhubarb applesauce, and made some into a chia pudding
• emptied compost buckets
• sorted clean laundry and put away 
• changed altar for Midsummer (belatedly!)
• ate supper (chia pudding)
• made another chia pudding for tomorrow
• made spinach rice pie
• made hummus
• blended up the pumpkin soup

To Do:

• make compost smoothies and refresh containers
• go through seedbox
• plant out succulent cuttings etc in driveway bank; continue grass control (by hand)
• do at least one tank's worth of slashing in hay field
• do 15 minutes tidying up in my bedroom
• put away Solstice stick
• reorganise butler's pantry so I have a bigger vegan pantry section (then Dan can have the cupboard under Hugh's)
• reorganise Dan's and Hugh's cupboards
• clean out my fridge, freeze black bananas/make banana cake
• make apple muffins
• make Italian vege risotto
• make butter tofu
• make black bean stroganoff
• make Steak Diane tempeh meatballs
• put in a load of laundry (towels)
• put away piles of stuff on my bed
• add photos to my last OBF blog entry; or make a separate photo post
• update Trello and drag myself back into some semblance of organisation *sigh*
• work out what needs to be done for the family costume-wise before Steamfest in early March
• make Eric a new tunic and undertunic for his birthday
• 8:30pm electronics curfew
• 9:30pm bedtime

Craft
Garden
Cooking/Food Preparation
Laundry
House
Personal
Administrative