Wednesday 5 February

Somehow it is already February, and we've just celebrated the first of the harvest festivals. I'm doing that thing of "Where the hell did the year go?" even though for quite a bit of it I can look back and see exactly where it went.

Done:

• coffee
• got into farm clothes 
• emptied night bucket
• dirty laundry round-up
• put in load of laundry #1 
• put in load of laundry #2 
• started daily Tummy Beast blog entry, finished shopping list
• did one tank's worth of slashing in top orchard/plum orchard
• put in load of laundry #3 
• screwed pipes of hoop house on #5 North to front of bed to keep hoop house stable
• harvested herbs, carrots, kale, snowpeas, zucchini and silverbeet for scrambled tofu
• made nettle tea and scrambled tofu
• hung out three loads of laundry (Eric)  
• did one section of mulching in top orchard
• showered, washed hair, got dressed  
• supermarket shopping, tip shop etc
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• filled all the water bottles in the kitchen, made sure there are three in my fridge
• updated Trello 
• watered the indoor plants
• watered raised beds and containers in both courtyards
• worked on levelling/mulching Dan's courtyard
• rest and rehydration break, made mineral water
• put away shopping
• 9:30pm electronic curfew and bedtime

To Do - Inside:

• catch up on Monday phone calls/contacts
• work on HESPs and 2019/2020 online/hard copy portfolios
• printed out portfolio dividers, added them to Hugh's portfolio, sorted out existing content
• work on handwriting with Hugh  
• 15 minutes tidying up in my bedroom
• change towels, bathmat, teatowels, hand towels (Thursday)
• cook Mexibeans 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
• work on steampunk costume 
• reorganising my "study": need to go through the in-trays and file portfolio stuff, relabel Dan's tray, and declutter/stocktake stationery supplies
• change my bedlinen
• 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
• bring in laundry from wood shed 
• write to grandparents
• enrol Dan in MTC
• print/file dividers for Hugh's portfolio
  
• write an explainer for Dan's Patreon and the SPG fandom
• start 2019 reports, 2020 HESPs
• compile/print missing monthly notes for 2019
• January (less urgent)
• February (less urgent)
• April (less urgent)
• August
• November
• December 

To Do - Outside:

• emptied horse poo into #4 and covered with hay
• compost smoothies 
• do a bonus tank's worth of slashing in the bottom chook run
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• harvest silverbeet for spinach rice pie
• harvest rhubarb
• 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