Tuesday 18 February

Ta Das:

• emptied night buckets
• dirty laundry round-up
• put in laundry #1 (linen/towels)
• coffee
• put in laundry #2 (delicates)
• made breakfast; picked fresh blackberries to go on pudding
• hung out laundry #1, brought in dry laundry from shed
• put in laundry #3 (linen/doona), hung out laundry #2 in shed
• got into farm clothes, cleaned my teeth
• cleared more area for mulch (finished plum orchard, started cutting path around blackberries near goose shed)
• added another layer of horse poo to #3
• took Dan to psych appointment
• went foraging for plums and blackberries in the paddock with Dan 
• transferred frozen blackberries to container, put in more blackberries to freeze

To Dos:

• make compost smoothie for zucchinis, water any containers I didn't get to yesterday
• fill window box in Dan's courtyard with potting mix; sweep concrete pad, remove rubbish from courtyard, move hall stand to concrete pad, bring in big grey planter
• start laying out paths in food forest, mulch remaining beds
• do BotVC stocktake and plan, menu plan, shopping list

Rest of the week has increased chance of rain, so aim to do as much in the garden as possible today then take three days off to do the shopping and work on paperwork and costuming.

Costuming:

• finish copper overskirt (except for ruching)
• finish green skirt
• do duct tape bodice pattern

Paperwork:

• find or reconstruct Hugh's HESP
• do a substantial amount on Dan's