Sunday's Musings on Monday

Since it really is Monday, first let me say Happy Birthday to One of the Most Wonderful Kids in the World!!! Teenage monster is now over half way through her teenage years! Man o man, where has the time gone.

Yesterday, Grim took her to the show. With them gone, me and Mouthy got started on planting seeds for the garden. Here is a list of what is planted.

13 Tomato Cherry Rainbow blend
7 Roma paste
14 Polish Linguisa paste
7 nasturtium
7 calundula
7 chamomile
13 Mammoth sunflowers
6 black bean dry
7 scarlet runner dry
14 bush beans
7 Italian rose bean dry
5 sugar snap peas
5 dragon tongue dry
5 trionfo violetto fresh
5 bright lights Swiss chard
5 ford hook Swiss chard
5 spinach
5 jack o lantern pumpkins
5 white pumpkins
5 jack be little pumpkins
3 sugar baby watermelon
7 warty French pumpkins (my seeds)
7 Boston marrow winter squash

Once the soil can be worked I still have to plan shell peas, carrots, beets & onions... Oh, and potatoes, too!

Last year I stated late and my plants never really got going. So I had to purchase most of what I planted. So this year with the help of the grow lights and an early start I should be really good shape. Oh, but I will be buying lettuce to plant. I know it is so easy.... every time I've tried to grow from seed it just never works for me. So what's a couple dollars for a summer full of lettuce.

Now if only my apple and pear tree, blueberry bushes and grapes produce this year, I will be ecstatic!

Man, I almost forgot. I started another batch of sprouts for the family and sourdough.

Grim and I had to go to our fruit market tonight. I was shocked to see that green peppers were $1.99 each. Most of the shelves of produce were empty. I can say thou that there was still a big supply of cabbage, sweet potatoes, beets, parsnips, turnips and carrots. Thank the gods, that I know how to cook. I can cook these things even thou my family isn't very fond of them. I am a firm believer that it is going to get a lot worse before long. I'm blessed that my family trusts me enough to go along with what I think we need to do.

Gotta Run,
Yart

Challenge #10

This week I found an long lost friend, with the help of the computer. Well, I went to get her on Sunday. She came here for a couple hours. I wish the visit would have been longer but she forgot her meds. In the time that we have been apart she has been diagnosed with Rapid Progressing MS. This actually explains a lot of issues she was having the last time that I was in touch with her. She is no longer the self assured person she once was, she now is quite and reserved. The medication she is on has affected her memory and her reasoning. Even with all that I am so happy that I found her. And that she is once again part of my life.

1. Garden work: Watering & I pulled the last of the broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. Planted carrots, lettuce and radishes on Saturday.

1A. Harvest something: Tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, peppers.

2. Preserve something. 8 quarts of tomatoes, dehydrated tomato skins ( for later grinding), made sauerkraut (fermenting as I type) That will go into jars in 6 weeks.

3. Food storage. Nothing this week

4. Other preparedness tasks: Canning and cleaning. Plus getting the stuff for back to school. ( I put some of the stuff away so that if need be we have it for a boredom buster).

5. Try a new recipe: No its been to hot to cook. So we are just eating salads and quick fix foods like tacos and hot dogs. But not at the same meal. LOL!

6. Financial preparedness: Now we are snowballing that money on to the next bill. Still waiting to see if I get a call from either of the places I applied at.

7. Work on local food systems. Not this week.

8: Learn something. I learned how difficult it is to get around with 2 broken toes.

9: Serve someone. Sent some of the garden products to my MIL. She froze the cauliflower so now she has it for the whole winter.

Gotta Run
Yart