The flowers aren't the only things excited by the spring weather. I seem to have kicked into productivity hyper-drive, too.
A brief list of some of my major projects from the past week or two:
-Baking bread, 8-10 loaves
-Processing and dehydrating the last of the season's pears, available super cheap at the local farm stand
-Flagging out our garden plot, which will be tilled by a hired tractor today
-Starting (and subsequently not killing) tomato, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts seeds
-Planning fencing to contain our chickens' ranging, which will otherwise kill the flowers we plan to plant out front
-Did I mention that I redid our front walk a couple weeks ago? We have flagstones now.
-Taping off and priming the walls and ceiling of the kitchen and dining room, which I hope to finish painting by Saturday
-Baking brownies spontaneously to celebrate birthdays and significant occasions
-Hand washing most of our laundry
-Learning new recipes, including Thai curry, falafel, an awesome roasted veggies thing that Ryan wants every day
-Feeling much stronger in handstands and tumbling, doing pull-ups, and generally being pumped about what my body can do
-Attending the Small Acreage Expo and attending a lecture that made me excited about liming our soil
-Making friends with our neighbors, who are surprisingly young and cool
Whew!
P.S. In case you were wondering, the yogurt treatment worked great for that case of nasty chicken butt!
2 comments:
i am wondering about this awesome roasted veggies thing!
I found the recipe-- if you can call it that, it's more a concept-- here: http://www.thewednesdaychef.com/the_wednesday_chef/2013/07/the-best-roasted-vegetables-ever.html
Basically, it's just chopping things up small. Everything. The best part is that if you make a lot of this, you can throw roasted veggie pieces into everything else you make that week.
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