-Shopping-I always have to go shopping and to the feed store on Saturday. Phil will be working again so I will be going by myself (the car is much, much smaller than the truck).
-The 3 gallons of pink lemonade wine must be racked into the jugs. Normally that would have happened last weekend but the wine did not get to fermenting last week. Either the yeast was not good or it was just too darn cold in the house. Either way I made a yeast starter (yeast, sugar, water, yeast nutrient), let it grow for a day then added a cup of wine and let it grow again, added more wine and since I could see it was doing well, after a few hours I added it to my bucket of pink lemonade. It has fermented nicely this week.
-The pumpkins have to be dealt with. Some of them have to be canned to make pumpkin pie or whatever with. I am looking up recipes though so I can try something besides pie and bread with it. Pumpkin soup will probably be nice.
-The pansies need to be planted. I bought some pansies to plant in the larger cement urns but they have lived in the greenhouse for the past week.
-The garden needs tending. Some of the seeds did not come up and need to be replanted. A deer nicely dug into the cauliflower bed and although it missed the plants (mostly), I need to clean it up some. There are also lots and lots of leaves in the beds that need to be cleaned out.
-I need to get to my friends house and drop her off more eggs (I have 7 dozen again) and also give her some of the pear relish. Going to my friends house takes time...we talk a LOT. I will try to get that done before work today.
-The house needs a good cleaning. The house is dirty and cluttered. I need to stop putting this one off.
And, of course, there is always in the back of my mind (where I tend to shove it) my knowing that those last three meat birds have to go. I have had them way too long (I have come to like them--or perhaps that is what I keep telling myself so I won't have to do the work of butchering them). There are also a lot of bantam roosters that need to go as well. Just yesterday I opened the nest to one of the hens and found 11 live chicks (and one dead). Luckily I already had the brooder going for 3 chicks that the two of the other bantam hens hatched. So they all went in together. (The last batch of quail, 8, are finishing off brooding in a cage in the greenhouse).
Oh my goodness... that's a lot to do! Your chicks look good... and we have a plethora of bantam roosters with nowhere to go!
ReplyDeleteThese are mille fleur x Japanese and they seem to produce a lot more males than females for some reason.
DeleteHi Becky! You're such a busy lady! You need to swap vehicles with Phil so you'll have enough space to haul all that stuff. Or do you drive the truck? There's so much I need to do this weekend! Fighting a migraine for two days leaves me depleted and unable to accomplish much. We will be going to get the baby and Mom and Dad tomorrow, so there's that day, too! I guess there's always next week! Just take it one day at a time! Blessings from Bama!
ReplyDeleteI could drive the truck...if he would LET me! I hate having migraines. I had them real bad there for a while but now I have them seldom again.
Deleteget done? lol, around this homestead nothing ever really gets done with...and everything just leads to another something needing doing. gosh, does that make any sense? i am having some worrisome issues with the ticker and thought maybe i would just spend tomorrow in the bed with a good book to read...and recharge my batteries a little bit...but no, gotta go help a lady get her quilt put together and a few other things so i guess i will be lucky if i even consider taking a nap. this has been a mean and ugly week and i hope we dont see another like it for a little while, but just as i typed that i hear on the news that the rats of the pres. cabinet are abandoning ship and resigning. keep on prepping!
ReplyDeleteI have a heart condition so I understand the worrisome days. I ended up somehow buying 3 bags of potatoes this weekend (not sure how that happened-3 different stores) but now I have potatoes and pumpkin to can :(
DeleteGood luck with your to-do list. You'll get a lot (but not all) of it done! That's just the way it is. I can tell you're like me, my husband says the reason I get frustrated for not getting all of my things done is because I try to do so much more than most people. I'd rather be like that though, I have to stay busy to be happy!!
ReplyDeleteFor me: have a baby Great Pyrenees that I'm raising, inside now, until she's old enough for her job as a guardian for our other animals. She is stubborn to train for anything (as she's supposed to be) so lots of cleaning up behind her and dodging her razor sharp teeth as she's started chewing and seems to prefer toes and ankles to anything else we offer! Need to pick up another goat this weekend and my laundry and house cleaning are hopelessly behind! Ugh to those!
Have a great weekend! :)
Yeah, it's not going to all get done, I can see that and we are only half way though Saturday :(
DeleteYou have a long to-do list! Wishing I could send you a mini me to help. Our garden needsput to bed yet. There are still a few stragglers that need cleaned out and leaves to rake. The house? GAH! That 4 letter word DUST is breeding and I need to get to it. Hoping you have a finished to-do list for the weekend!
ReplyDeleteOk, I'm not dusting! Lol, dusting is left for days when I am really, really, really bored.
DeleteThey always say that if you want a job done quickly, give it to a busy person... I guess you are that sort of person.
ReplyDeleteSpent my weekend visiting my 86-year-old MIL. Some of the dust in her house is pre-WW2!
Well good for you MIL. I don't think any day of your life should be spent on worrying about dust.
DeleteA friend of mine once commented that, on a self-sufficient farm of any sort, the ToDo list only ever gets longer, never shorter. Slightly depressing thought, but I've found it to be true.
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