Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Tuesday 28 January

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 

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