Lists...

 

   Some days my "want to do" list has to be replaced with my more realistic "what I can do" list.  Some days, like yesterday, my list consists of making a quick dinner and throwing the rest of the roasted chicken carcus into the crockpot to cook on low overnight to be made into bone broth.  It was a very high pain day and took all my energy just to move.  I finally started coming out of my flare in the early evening and was able to help Jeff get some shade cloth up over part of the greenhouse roof.  It was getting way too hot in there and literally "cooked" my Walla Walla Sweet onion starts.  Jeff is getting me some more starts today on his way home.

   My list today consisted of potting up my rosemary plants, repotting some tomato plants that I bought over the weekend, into bigger pots, and potting up some pretty Hulahoop petunias into two different pretty planters.  Also on the list was turning that delicious bone broth into some chicken noodle soup.  I threw in some of the mixed veggies that I had dehydrated to see if they would rehydrate well and they did!  Yay!  I had some of the soup for lunch and we will most likely have some for dinner tonight.  It is so good that I really don't mind having it again so soon. 😉

   I already have my list for tomorrow started.  I want to get my stacking planter filled and then seed in lettuce seeds of all kinds of varieties.  I'm thinking that I may keep this more in a partially shaded area because the weather here is very strange right now.  We have been having summer like temperatures, but it will be doing a drastic drop by this Thursday and then stay there for a bit.  I held off planting the lettuce because I did not want it to bolt in the heat. I did however put my spinach, bok choi, napa cabbage, and radish seed in because by the time they germinate and start coming up, the weather will be more Spring like.

   Jeff has been working on the front porch and steps that he is building, but took a break last night from it.  I think it was well needed.  He had been overthinking how to build it and was getting really frustrated with himself.  I went out there Sunday afternoon, looked at it, and came up with a easy building plan based on math for the rise on the steps.  Usually Jeff is the math guy, but in his desire to adjust the rise to work better for me, he got into his head way too much.  He was also exhausted and hot by this time, so he was not thinking clearly.  Monday was a long and tiring day at work for him and he was still exhausted from the weekend working out in the hot sun.  Yes, my man needed the break.  I am sure he will be back at it again after he comes home from work.  I will give credit where credit is due though, it was Jeff who originally taught me how to measure for and build steps.  Those years of him being a carpenter had me learning a lot from him.

   My neighbor with the little yappy and annoying dog is out looking for and yelling for him.  I am praying she finds him.  We have a rather large fox that has been making the rounds and hunting up here.  I have seen it right in the road in front of my house and it was stalking my other neighbor's dog also.  Luckily, they came out and say what was happening so now their dogs do not go out without them.  I worry about my Ginny cat, but she seems to stick to the backyard here, unless we are out in the front yard, and I keep the gates closed to deter the fox.

   Well, I was up by 5:45 this morning, so I think I am going to go and have a bit of a rest for awhile.  Be blessed my friends!