Been keeping up with the spinning challenge … I’m doing a little every night, and it’s really good for me. I feel like I’m starting to get good at this!
Thought I’d do an Independence days update while I’m here–
Planted: potatoes, garlic, tomatoes
Harvested: tomatoes, carrots, strawberries (just a few, but very good!), chard
Preserved: more [...]
Hi, everyone!
We’re having a bit of a cool spell — it’s only 90 instead of 102 here! — and our summer is going pretty well. I just read Sharon Astyk’s blog, which reminded me to do my Independence days update. It’s been quite dry here, the bit of rain we got a couple of days [...]
It’s been hot and humid here, with no rain for a couple of weeks. We could use some rain.
Planted: corn, more tomato plants, shallots.
Harvested: chard, onions, peas, blackberries, a strawberry here and there.
Froze the peas, also still drying weeds for the bunnies. Have a couple large bags full now.
Today I’m making broth out of chicken [...]
Seems that summer is here — temperatures in the 90+ range, sunny, and humid.
Planted four more tomato plants, harvested a lot of onions and scallions, some peas, and a couple cups of blackberries (which disappeared like magic! ). And of course lots of weeds for the rabbits.
Made a braid of six of the [...]
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.
Just been a little busy.
We got the daughter graduated (whew!), the boys are doing their band thing every day, and we’ve been doing a lot of discussion about the wedding, which is in mid-July. Fortunately my daughter has found a place she really likes, [...]
Been fun the last couple of weeks, getting ready for my daughter’s graduation, my boys starting the high school band (they integrate the junior high kids into the high school band right about now), and of course doing all my usual.
Here’s the recap:
Planted two tomato plants, and put up a post and twine trellis for [...]
Sharon Astyk’s post reminded me about Independence Days, which I had thought about in the “oh yeah I need to be doing this” but not in the sense of “oh yeah I need to do this NOW”. Thanks for the nudge!
So we’re back on. She has altered the rules a bit … every day you [...]
I haven’t posted for a while on what I’m doing, so I thought I would
Planted snow peas today … been repotting some of the many tomato seedlings on my kitchen windowsill … spun some handpainted salmon-colored roving (no, I didn’t paint it, I got it from the farmers’ market last year) … did [...]
I’ve been gone a while, haven’t I? Didya miss me?
This week I went to a wedding, went back to playing World of Warcraft (my whole family got copies of The Lich King), and have been having fun on chess.com
And it’s supposed to snow today! Yippee!
But Sharon posted her Independence Days update the other [...]
I haven’t done a link day in a long time, and I’ve found some lovely ones I thought I might share with you:
Okla-vore – this is a lovely little blog I just ran across, which has some really interesting links.
Next Up? The Food Crisis — by Bob Waldrop, who’s the founder and president of the [...]
Well, let’s see….
Harvested some lettuce and carrots.
Shucked more sunflower heads (making a dent in the pile in the bowl on my kitchen counter).
As far as ‘preps’, I’ve been working on a sturdy base for my 300 gal. water barrel, and between my husband and I, we’ve worked out a plan to get the thing not [...]
Well, I’m glad all the hubbub is over so everyone can get back to work. I don’t know about you, but I’ve found the election fairly distracting.
Planted red winter wheat today, harvested some purslane. Found out the rabbits like dry leaves!
I found out that from a post on an email group talking about how sheep [...]
I love it. It’s a great way to remind myself to get out and do something every day.
Forgot to write about what’s been happening lately, so here goes:
Planted: lettuce, brassicas (broccoli, tyfon, cabbage, pok choi), beets, garlic. Some of the garlics I planted before are coming up!
Another thing that’s happening is that I had saved [...]
Dinner was fried local ham, local apples and local butternut squash (I cheated and cooked them in the microwave), and homemade cornbread (with cornmeal from Kansas, so that’s regional). Simply delicious.
Planted: more garlic. I just got in a dwarf Orinoco Banana plant, which is supposed to be hardy to zone 7. So I potted it [...]
Because that’s what I’m usually involved with.
I have tooooo many links over there on the right side; I have more there than I have writing in the middle. So I’ll be making a page for all my linkies, in case you wonder where they’ve gone to.
Also, I’m on twitter (redstategreen). Yeah. Might not be too [...]
Things are getting crazy in the world of finance, aren’t they?
Well, taking steps to be more self-reliant are always good. We’re doing fine here but just talking with friends and family, it hasn’t been that rosy. Found out a friend was in foreclosure but managed to cut a deal. My sister and her husband lost [...]
Just thinking about how things have been going in the news lately, I’m beginning to think that these Independence Days are more important that ever. Anything that makes us more self-reliant, less tied into the global economy and more tied into our local communities, makes us more able to take care of our own and [...]
It’s a beautiful day here today, and cool enough to get some actual work done. I’ve started my fall cleaning (which I do instead of spring cleaning since I like fall better).
Planted: garlic
Harvested: a particularly large sunflower head, some green beans.
Managed: composted some bunny litter and shucked a couple of sunflower heads that had been [...]
I realized that I haven’t posted my doings for a while. Here goes:
Planted: Parsley. I also have these carrot plants that sent up lovely white flowers, which are now brown and curled up into a cup-like structure at the top of their stalks. I know that’s where they keep the seeds, so today I rubbed [...]
AKA using what God gave you.
We throw away wayyyy too much stuff here in America, and the time will come when that isn’t an option anymore, whether through financial tightening, lack of supply, or lack of landfill space. Part of being self-reliant/independent is managing the things you have so you aren’t being wasteful.
I [...]
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