Not heavy mind you, but it is rain wonderful rain! and it is a cold rain. Poor DH has to go out in this but I don't this morning. Thank you very much. I did build a nice fire in the living room stove so he can get warm very quickly when he comes in.
I am making bread this morning, some 7-grain and maybe more white bread.
I see more daffodils have opened. I have several more clumps scattered around now and one tiny little white crocus.
Yesterday was doctor day for DH, his annual cardiologist checkup, and all was good. We stopped by his Mom's so that delayed us getting home.
She wanted to know if I wanted my birthday present early (September!) DH said she wanted him to bring it to me the last time he visited and he said if he did I would have to wait to open it. I told them if I had to wait, she could keep it at her house......I ended up opening there it on the condition she wouldn't buy me another present in September! Here is what I got.....to go with the 13 inch skillet she gave me because it was too big for her. Now the question is: Where do I put them. I am starting to think a pot rack somewhere...
Anyway, we were late getting home and I had to fix lunch. We had a mystery lunch because I laid out two containers (unlabeled) of cooked food before we left. It turned out to be white beans and chicken and noodles. I heated all plus some left over creamed peas and we had a very tasty lunch with a toasted hot dog bun (I told you I was out of bread!), half each. Made me glad we hadn't grabbed a chicken sandwich at McDonald's on the way home. The point of this story is I was tired but I knew I had soaked the pea seeds that should go in the ground and I wanted the rains to help germination of spinach so I made myself go out around 3 pm.
I planted the cattle panel on both sides with the Sugar Snap and Oregon sugar pod peas so this gives me a 30 foot row (15 foot panel) of peas. I just pulled the mulch back and dug a small trench with the hoe and planted. Then I planted the rest of the garlic row east, maybe 15 feet, with Bloomsdale spinach. The whole thing just took an hour.
I am being rewarded with the rain.
16 eggs yesterday. I am getting some strange colors on the dark brown ones.
The bread is doing an autolyse so I better get back to it.
I started another fresh quart of buttermilk yesterday and bottled it up in a clean jar this morning.
I am making bread this morning, some 7-grain and maybe more white bread.
I see more daffodils have opened. I have several more clumps scattered around now and one tiny little white crocus.
Yesterday was doctor day for DH, his annual cardiologist checkup, and all was good. We stopped by his Mom's so that delayed us getting home.
She wanted to know if I wanted my birthday present early (September!) DH said she wanted him to bring it to me the last time he visited and he said if he did I would have to wait to open it. I told them if I had to wait, she could keep it at her house......I ended up opening there it on the condition she wouldn't buy me another present in September! Here is what I got.....to go with the 13 inch skillet she gave me because it was too big for her. Now the question is: Where do I put them. I am starting to think a pot rack somewhere...
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| From Blog March 2012 |
Anyway, we were late getting home and I had to fix lunch. We had a mystery lunch because I laid out two containers (unlabeled) of cooked food before we left. It turned out to be white beans and chicken and noodles. I heated all plus some left over creamed peas and we had a very tasty lunch with a toasted hot dog bun (I told you I was out of bread!), half each. Made me glad we hadn't grabbed a chicken sandwich at McDonald's on the way home. The point of this story is I was tired but I knew I had soaked the pea seeds that should go in the ground and I wanted the rains to help germination of spinach so I made myself go out around 3 pm.
I planted the cattle panel on both sides with the Sugar Snap and Oregon sugar pod peas so this gives me a 30 foot row (15 foot panel) of peas. I just pulled the mulch back and dug a small trench with the hoe and planted. Then I planted the rest of the garlic row east, maybe 15 feet, with Bloomsdale spinach. The whole thing just took an hour.
I am being rewarded with the rain.
16 eggs yesterday. I am getting some strange colors on the dark brown ones.
The bread is doing an autolyse so I better get back to it.
I started another fresh quart of buttermilk yesterday and bottled it up in a clean jar this morning.
