Old Projects Day

Blessings Darlings!

On top of the usual cleaning and hauling manure - today I finally put together a cheap garden composter that I bought like 4+ years ago.  Had to send the spawn to the storage locker to find it there before putting it together.  It's REALLY cheap, but was REALLY easy to put together, now that I finally had the time and will.



I weeded the obvious junk mail out of the mail that the CH had thrown on the dining room table, and got some other stuff off of there.  Might finish that tomorrow.  Might not. 

Maybe tomorrow I'll put the equally cheap 'greenhouse' together!

The purple dead nettles I wildcrafted yesterday cooked down to about a cup and a half total, even with the addition of wild garlic.  I added half of it to my scrambled eggs to get one of my servings of veggies today.  Tasted good, thank the Gods. 

If it's not too rainy tomorrow, I hope to harvest wintercress from down the road from us.  

Stock futures have opened - looks like it's going to be another bumpy day tomorrow.  Buckle those seatbelts!

Frondly, Fern

Unemployment Fail

Blessings Darlings!

Morning update:
The online filing for unemployment site is failing due to so many folks using it.  Will try later today again.  Spawn got thru' earlier this week, he's set up and will get the debit card in a few weeks.

Didn't get thru' all the To Do list yesterday, but got SOME done on everything.  Might go back to manure hauling today, but the mud IS intimidating.  So doing housework.  DAMN that shower stall is clean!

Got more stressed about the whole thing late yesterday, enough so that it made it hard to sleep.  If that happens again tonight, and if I still haven't gotten thru' the unemployment site - I'll do it at 2 am.  And probably clean more.

Husband just asked "What will we do about filling the cars? Pushing those buttons, using that HANDLE?"

Breath.

1 - we're not going anywhere.

2 - the cars have gas

3 - here are wipes I bought years ago - add some water to the package and use them. BTW -

4 - Here are wipes I made with paper towels and alcohol

5 - here are more of the gloves YOU USED YESTERDAY.

 Afternoon update:
Them senators who sold stocks instead of warning and preparing the US need to get prosecuted.

Dinner tonight is chicken and dumplings, with leftover chicken and wild garlic greens.  Used a drop biscuit recipe for the dumplings and also made my first batch of drop biscuits with half the recipe.  Successful attempt!  

Again - did a lot today, but never as much as I'd hoped to get done.  Bored during this at home time?  Oh hell no.

Frondly, Fern

As If

Blessings, Darlings!

As if there is anything ELSE to do when unemployed due to the Corona virus pandemic, I suppose I might start blogging again.

Or get my garden well started, even if it's a bit early.

We're financially privileged enough that we'll get thru' my being unemployed (especially since I'll be applying for unemployment with in the next 12 hours) - the Chubby Hubby is over 70, and now on Social Security.  But as you might have noticed from his (and my) age, we are in at risk ages.  And the Spawn has asthma.  So I'm happy that the Spawn and I are now home (we worked in the same restaurant.) 

Oh - we live in the first town in West Virginia to officially have a case of Covid 19.  I'm sure I'll blog about that 'officially' thing sometime. 

But first I have a cake in the oven, and seeds to start, and I really need to set up a new schedule for myself now that I'm not working nights.  I might choose to start getting up earlier, now that I don't get home at 11 pm and want to eat and otherwise transition after getting home. 

At any rate - I'm likely to blog more, but it's likely to be boring stuff like what I did in the garden and what I cooked.  With occasional rants on 'why did folks clean out the dry beans from the stores, but not buy any spices to use on them?' and such.