Done:
- coffee, breakfast
- put in a load of laundry
- drained and rinsed jars of mung beans and salad sprouts
- watered flat of microgreens, planted out half the punnet of brocolette into empty spots in #3 and #4 (where previous seedlings got chomped), picked a pocketful of tomatoes
- sowed a punnet of kale "Cavolo Nero", also into the wooden box on #5
- dirty laundry round-up (Eric), put in laundry #2
- family time: played D&D with Hugh and Eric
- foraged for blackberries
- break for fizzy water; took VitB12 tablet
- hang out 2 loads of laundry
- showered and got dressed
- 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:
- do 1-2 loads of laundry, hang out undercover
- 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 (1 punnet of Red Russian for succession planting)
- chives
- purple sprouting broccoli (then transplant to pots to overwinter inside, then plant outside after frost for spring cropping)
- plant something
- yak shaving: spray paint big pot for stevia
- second leek resprout in #4
- go foraging
- 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
