Achin' Bacon.

Blessings, Darlings!

Now the turnips are sprouting!

Dear Gods, my back went crazy after the garden work yesterday.  Along with putting cardboard down, I'd forked up and removed some grass from the already-established garden.  My back took serious offense at that.  But my knees didn't!  I really have to get the hubby and spawn doing more of this. 

I wasn't this out of shape last year at this time.  Last year I was working on regularly, losing weight, all those good things.  Then ... I stopped going to the gym to save $ because it was clear that at the very least my hours at work would be cut back.  And then they were.  And three months after that, business at work dropped again, due to the virus.

It's a good thing I put bricks on the cardboard yesterday, rather than relying on 'thoughts and prayers' - today is extremely windy, and everything is staying in place.

The Spawn shopped today - a day earlier than I expected that he would.  So the list he shopped with was, at best, 'incomplete'.  He spent $16 on what he thought were necessities.  But no lunch stuff, no salt (we're out of table salt to refill things, but have superfine and kosher), no provolone, etc.  We'll just have to wait a week for those. Oh, and no egg roll wrappers - we'll have to make our own.  Excuse me, *I* will have to make our own.  I'd better start the bean sprouts for the egg rolls, too.  We're smoking some pork shoulder tomorrow, and while we'll use most of it for bbq sandwiches, 9 oz of it will go into a big batch of egg rolls. 

Wintercress/creasy greens FTW! Using them as a Bi Bim Bap veggie today. Using it for 'spinach' crepes sometime this weekend.  Getting all the veggies ready for the BBB is a bowl-intensive thing.  Prepping them, and then washing everything afterwards, is a work intensive thing.  But it came out amazing.

I'm taking my achin' bacon to bed now.  Sleep tight.

Frondly, Fern

Husband has sore throat.

Blessings Darlings!

The governor finally closed the state, kinda sorta.  Hardware stores still count as vital businesses, somehow, tho.

The Chubby Hubby has nasal drip, and is freaking out.  He's in bed with a glass of Tang right now.

Due to rain, I didn't haul any manure today, but I did take a walk and harvest a lot of creasy greens (wintercress).  Probably won't cook them for dinner, will make something the CH will be more at home with.   Didn't do laundry, either, since line drying was out.

In this time of uncertainty - I wanted an egg substitute in the house that I could use for baking with.  Since no one in my house has issues with soy, my go-to for this is soy flour.  Two oz by volume each of soy flour and water equals one egg.  Of course, for the past three weeks the local stores have been out of both soy flour and soy beans, and I didn't want to drive to Frederick MD to get either of them.  So I went to order them online.  And Bob's Red Mill was totally out.  I had to buy soy flour from a vendor I knew nothing about.  The First World Horror!  At any rate - they said they'd be here between 3/25 and 4/1, but it arrived today.  I'm happy.

I should take a pic of the cherry tree - it's in full bloom and lovely.  Maybe tomorrow.

Frondly, Fern