Sunday 29 March - Coronapocalypse edition

Done:

• coffee
• removed chickpeas in slowcooker (dammit, should have done this last night but forgot)
• finished watching the Microgreens video from Milkwood
• breakfast; accidentally had one too many coffees oops
• drained and rinsed jars of mung beans and salad sprouts
• sowed punnet of spring onions 
• sorted all the laundry in the living room, folded Dan's laundry and put it neatly in a basket so it doesn't get unsorted again waiting for them to take it outside; put away my laundry
• showered and got dressed; dirty laundry round-up
• sorted and paired socks in Lonely Sock Club
• tidied my growing/harvest counter in the kitchen
• changed towels
• changed cat litter tray
• spent some time in the courtyard breathing and observing
• break for fizzy water; took VitB12 tablet
• started laying out ingredients for briami, washed many many spud
• sorted spuds from out of the two baskets; layered bigger ones in a box between newspaper
• made a giant tray of briami 
• sowed a flat of microgreens from the pile of old seed (mustard, cress, lettuce, rocket) - most of this stuff will probably germinate
• made vegan cauliflower cheese
• sowed a punnet of lettuce seed
• clean out the slowcooker, put in spaghetti sauce

  To Do:

• Cooking/Food Prep:
• make spaghetti sauce (slow cooker)
• make chia puddings
• make amazeballs (please)
• make silverbeet tofu quiche with cauliflower almond crust
• Laundry:
• sort and put away any laundry that is in or comes into the house
• sow some seeds
• spring onions - try sowing in a window box then bringing it inside to the living room?
• lettuce (windowbox); bring window box from Dan's courtyard into my courtyard for some TLC
• kale (both kinds - Red Russian is doing really well!)
• chives 
• plant something 
• yak shaving: spray paint big pot for stevia
• second leek resprout
• go foraging
• apples; blackberries
• preserving: 
• clean out a big jar, try first small batch of sauerkraut
• make apple blackberry compote
• try pickling or fermenting green tomatoes?
• transfer frozen blackberries to tub; freeze diced rhubarb and start a new tub
• harvest something: 
• rhubarb; ripening tomatoes; silverbeet
• manage food storage: 
• update next week's shopping list as appropriate (ongoing)
• put the freezer stockpile items in the freezer; sort stockpile as needed
• put almond meal in a jar or put the bag in the freezer 
• Garden (other):
• chuck some old cow manure around the rhubarb
• ORDER VEGIE MIX before my cabbage and brocolette seedlings spend too long in their punnets
• Community resilience:
• Country Brewer for Fowler's kit 
• LLSG for vegie mix

• put in laundry #1 (clothes) - on hold due to rain
• (with Eric) install fence/gate posts along the east border of the food forest - on hold due to rain
• install round galv iron bed in plum orchard - on hold due to rain
• Dan's courtyard: dig out and level area behind brick step, add pavers (may need builder's sand) - on hold due to rain
• hang out laundry #1, put in laundry #2 - on hold due to rain
• hung out laundry #2, put in laundry #3  - on hold due to rain
• hung out laundry #3, put in laundry #4 - on hold due to rain
• bring in dry laundry that got wet again overnight, sort and put away all of mine - on hold due to rain
• hung out laundry #4, brought in dry laundry - on hold due to rain

Saturday 28 March - Coronapocalypse edition

Done:

• coffee
• got into farm clothes
• sorted Eric to go to the laundromat to wash Dan's doona and Hugh's fleecy bedspread
• did F&V shopping at Chris' stall
• made scrambled tofu for breakfast
• put chickpeas in slowcooker
• (Eric) put doona and blue bedspread on line 
• updated next week's shopping list
• put in laundry #1 (linen/towels)
• discussed garden plans with Eric, moved all the posts to the side of the house, got him started with fence/gate posts along the east fence for Dan's courtyard/food forest
• rolled round galv iron bed into plum orchard
• drained and rinsed jars of mung beans and salad sprouts
• (with Eric) Dan's courtyard: replaced gate post and rehung west gate; made brick step; built and erected trellis frame; fixed problems with east gate; added netting to trellis and gate
• fell in a heap but tried not to comfort eat too badly
• got a reply from Country Brewer - they do have the Fowler's Simply Natural unit in stock and have a new order in if they sell the last one they have in the shop before I get there, but I'm waiting for a price now (and I should probably talk to Eric about my desire to buy one - at least it's couching it as "supporting a local business" rather than a big online company)
• later that night: heard the satisying (and amusing) sound of marsupials boinging off netting where no netting used to be

To Do:

• Cooking/Food Prep:
• make briami (when I have cooked chickpeas)
• make chia puddings
• make amazeballs (please)
• make silverbeet tofu quiche with cauliflower almond crust
• Laundry:
• sort and put away any laundry that is in or comes into the house
• sow some seeds
• spring onions - try sowing in a window box then bringing it inside to the living room?
• lettuce (windowbox); bring window box from Dan's courtyard into my courtyard for some TLC
• kale (both kinds - Red Russian is doing really well!)
• chives 
• flat of microgreens (lettuce, mustard, cress, etc)
• plant something 
• yak shaving: spray paint big pot for stevia
• start potato tyre stacks
• go foraging
• preserving: 
• make apple blackberry compote
• try pickling green tomatoes?
• transfer frozen blackberries to tub; freeze diced rhubarb
• harvest something: 
• rhubarb; ripening tomatoes; silverbeet
• manage food storage: 
• sort out a better solution for the potatoes
• put the freezer stockpile items in the freezer; sort stockpile as needed
• put almond meal in a jar or put the bag in the freezer 
• Garden (other):
• chuck some old cow manure around the rhubarb
• ORDER VEGIE MIX before my cabbage and brocolette seedlings spend too long in their punnets
• Community resilience:
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Friday 27 March - Coronapocalypse edition

Done:

• emptied night buckets
• coffee, breakfast
• updated stockpile spreadsheet
• started gathering ingredients etc for curried sweet potato soup in the slowcooker
• rewashed load of delicates in the machine
• dealt with Dan's "chuck out" pile of clothes
• got into farm clothes
• reworked my night bucket station
• dirty laundry round-up (excluding Eric)
• put in laundry #1 (clothes)
• hung out delicates
• put curried sweet potato soup in the slowcooker
• cup of tea; watched Milkwood video on sprouting
• started jars of mung beans and salad sprouts
• hung out laundry, put on laundry #2 
• watched the first part of Good Life Permaculture's Crisis Food Gardening video in case there were any new tips etc (and I've learned that for winter slug control, I should definitely ditch the mulch in Dan's courtyard, and lay more paper to kill the grass, then top with vegie mix and sow broadbeans direct into that)
• made hummus and felafels 
• hung out laundry #2, put in laundry #3 
• roasted sweet potato boats 
• made nashi, walnut and currant muffins to use up the nashis which were turning bad
• put on chickpeas to soak
• ate potatoes, mayo and spronions for lunch
• hung out laundry #3, put in laundry #4
• brought in dry laundry, sorted and put away all of mine (including the stuff on the bed)
• fell in a heap
• pulled up old mulch from potato beds in Dan's courtyard, added to second raised bed
• added netting to west fence in Dan's courtyard to keep geese/pademelons out and cat in
• supervised Dan triaging their clean laundry for donations/binnables
• hung out laundry #4, brought in dry laundry

To Do:

• Cooking/Food Prep:
• make briami (tomorrow, when I have cooked chickpeas)
• make chia puddings
• make amazeballs (please)
• make silverbeet tofu quiche with cauliflower almond crust
• Laundry:
• dirty laundry round-up (Eric)
• take load of doonas, blankets to laundromat; hang out
• sort and put away any laundry that is in or comes into the house
• sow some seeds
• spring onions - try sowing in a window box then bringing it inside to the living room?
• lettuce (windowbox); bring window box from Dan's courtyard into my courtyard for some TLC
• kale (both kinds - Red Russian is doing really well!)
• chives 
• flat of microgreens (lettuce, mustard, cress, etc)
• plant something - yak shaving: spray paint big pot for stevia
• go foraging
• preserving: 
• make apple blackberry compote
• try pickling green tomatoes?
• transfer frozen blackberries to tub; freeze diced rhubarb
• harvest something: 
• rhubarb; ripening tomatoes; silverbeet
• manage food storage: 
• sort out a better solution for the potatoes
• put the freezer stockpile items in the freezer; sort stockpile as needed
• put almond meal in a jar or put the bag in the freezer 
• Garden (other):
• chuck some old cow manure around the rhubarb
• ORDER VEGIE MIX before my cabbage and brocolette seedlings spend too long in their punnets
• Community resilience:
• email or call Country Brewer re Fowler's kit

Sunday 15 March

Done:

• [6am] breakfast, coffee
• watered houseplants
• emptied compost buckets
• put farmhouse soup in the slow cooker
• emptied my fridge of dead stuff; restocked some of the jars on the shelves
• made chia puddings x 6
• found some recipes for what to do with green tomatoes
• [11:00] made cauliflower rice and reheated tempeh mootballs for early lunch
• put away drying up, did most of the washing up (including food processor blades, frypan etc)
• put in a load of whites
• made two batches of TVP/butterbean sausages and put in freezer
• put in a load of white sheets to soak, then wash
• changed cat litter tray
• wrangled Hugh to put out the laundry (not sheets) and bring in the dry stuff
• made cabbagey TVPmincey noodley thing
• helped Dan with their hat project (bias binding, top-stitching)
• picked tomatoes

To Cook/Make:

• hummus and felafels
• pull one silverbeet plant and strip; caramelise big batch of red onions; make spinach rice pie
• amazeballs x as many batches as I can before I die of boredom/run out of ingredients
• pick bunch of rhubarb; make rhubarb applesauce and freeze half in small jars
• make lentil burgers; buy more dry brown lentils and cook/freeze
• apple and blackberry crumble (made with or by Dan)
• roast sweet potato and pumpkin slices/dice/boats
• pick any ripe tomatoes, cook down with red onions, balsamic vinegar and basil/oregano for pasta sauce; bottle
• make a batch of green tomato and apple chutney; bottle
• mix up a new batch of trail mix

To Do:

• change towels
• hang out sheets
• change my bedlinen
• 20/10 in my bedroom
• 20/10 in work room
• 20/10 in kitchen
• 20/10 in living room
• 20/10 in learning room
• 20/10 in bathroom

Getting In Garden Supplies Ahead of Shut-Down (Eric's "Honey-do" list):

• take shredder to Harvey to see if it works
• spoiled hay from Jenny on Fourfoot Rd
• trailer of topsoil
• trailer of horse poo 
• trailer of sawdust
• install proper latches on gates to Dan's courtyard
• assess stocks of nails/screws/other hardware for job list
• buy roll(s) of chicken wire
• help me move big tyre
• help me move new round garden bed