Today's Work Before Work

These first two are all Fer's fault and his lovely post on planting grapes in containers. I made a special stop this morning just to pick up one Thompson's Seedless and one Concord Seedless grape. I have been looking for something to do with these pots. I do have two grapes growing in the ground (a Concord and a muscadine) but they have never produced more than a few grapes so the pots seemed like a great alternative to me.
Also since I happened to be at the plants, I picked up another blueberry plant this one called Legacy and got it planted this morning.





I then proceeded to fix out back porch. Our back porch really isn't a porch, more like a landing with steps. It is a landing that I fell through quite a while ago.  That's is what happens when you don't fix a porch when it starts to get soft on one side. I have been going out back by creeping across the two boards on one side that are left and I don't like it. I can hit a nail as good as anyone and apparently Phil has forgotten how. It took about an hour and I wouldn't exactly jump up and down on the porch  now but it is definitely better than it was.

I then did the animals (7 duck eggs today, 2 pheasant eggs and several bantam eggs) and went back inside to the indoor work. What to have for supper? Here is what I came up with:

There's a beef roast in that crock pot with some onions(on sale $.99 bag: this was only one there were 3 in the bag), peppers(on sale $1.49; three in the bag, this is only two of them), mushrooms(just a good price), a little smoked ham for flavor(leftover from supper the night before last) and some salt and papper.
I then noticed the zucchini still sitting on the table and had to dehydrate the rest of the mushrooms so just did them both to fill the dehydrator.