Tag: food preservation
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Wedding Weekend
What happens when there’s three days of wind and rain and you don’t check on your broccoli and Brussels sprouts? A Brassica Massacre. When I went to check on them this week, they were nearly all nibbled away, and the culprits, the bright green cabbage worms, were still lolling about. I must have picked eight…
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Closing Time
This was a catch-up, clean-out, clean-up, fix-up, and shut-down kind of weekend. Tom did the fixing up: unclogging sink drains, setting up the new dehumidifier, and attempting to fix the back screen door. The kids and I cleaned up: the bathrooms, the kitchen, changing sheets, the cat box, and more. The garden moved a bit…
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Desert Bound
Posting a little early this week because I leave soon for Arizona, for a work trip. Today I borrowed and bought a few items, finished packing, and ran some errands. My flight is early Sunday morning. So far I have spent $125 towards this trip (haircut and color) plus about $20 worth of snacks for…
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The Suburban Semi-Rural Sweet Spot
I have been watching a lot of homesteading videos. I’ve never been one to sit and watch YouTube, but in an effort to stop doom scrolling on my lunch break, I looked up the videos of More Than Farmers, an Ohio family I follow on Instagram. I have since watched quite a few of their…
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The Trying
Lots of crawly friends in the garden this week: The swallowtail caterpillars are growing. And this spider, perhaps a cross orb weaver or spotted orb weaver, built a web between two of the garden posts and now has a tasty treat stored there. Sunsets are creeping earlier and I have to rush into the garden…
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Summer Reprieve
Wrapping up a very quick trip down the Shore. Getting in the last beach and boardwalk time of the season (maybe, you never know). We stayed one night at the Tahiti Inn, which was serviceable for $240. N, F and N’s friend stayed at the house my parents are renting. Good times with the extended…
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Relentlessly Dorky
The title of this post came to me as I was falling asleep the other night. I was thinking about how I’ve been waiting all my life to be an old person who prioritizes my rest and my nonglamorous hobbies. I’ve been middle aged at heart forever. Sure, there’s some things I miss about my…
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Yass Cream
This week was the opposite of the previous week: chilly and rainy! No complaints here. I was able to bring my fall seedlings outside for extended periods and didn’t have to water the garden. The fall seedlings are really perturbing me. They don’t like hot weather, but they need to go in the ground soon…
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August Interlude
Not much happened this week. I looked into laptop options for T; N bought a bike, with some birthday money from us and his own money. We worked on training Rocco and Molly received adoption applications. There were more doctor appointments for some of us. It was in the 90s all week but I still…
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Staycate the Premises
I hate to be writing this post, because it means my staycation is finally over. What a lovely break it was. I randomly, at the last minute, took off on Thursday and Friday, mainly because the weather was supposed to be wonderful. I wasn’t 100% sure what I’d do, but it all fell into place.…
