I harvested the first of the Meyer lemons for the season. I taught my daughter how to fix the hem on her pants that had come undone I took advantage of online Black Friday deals and ordered some clothing on sale (60% off) and ordered tickets on sale to fly to my daughter’s university graduation….
I sowed seeds in the garden for spinach, sorrel, lettuce, mache, green onions, artichokes, snow peas, cilantro, and parsley. With rapidly rising food prices across the world, homegrown produce will be worth even more by the time it is ready for harvest, and is a good investment of funds that should yield a higher rate…
I gave two sons a haircut. I buried kitchen scraps in the garden: banana peels (and cut off bruised spots), ends of romaine lettuce, watermelon rinds from our homegrown watermelons, the skins from my homegrown butternut squash, eggshells, and apple cores. These should help feed the worms we have added, which should help feed the…
I took cuttings from the bushes in the front yard to make new plants for the backyard. I mixed more manure into the garden and sowed seeds in the garden for lettuce, green onions, parsley, mache (corn salad), sorrel, snow peas, spinach, chives, and nasturtiums. I transplanted lettuce seedlings that had self-seeded in a corner…
I harvested butternut squash, watermelon, Swiss chard, and peppermint from the garden. I sowed seeds in the garden for lettuce, green onions, Swiss chard, and poppies. I bought fall annuals on sale at the local nursery. I checked their ads on their app (they run Friday through Wednesday) and bought several of the flowers I…
I harvested basil, mint, lemon verbena, a watermelon, and a large zucchini from the garden. The watermelon is an open-pollinated type, so I saved the seeds to plant next year. I haven’t grown watermelon for a long time, and the seeds I planted earlier this year were quite old, but they still grew. My children…
Each year, right around the last day of October, a great wind comes in and the temperatures drop. This year, the wind showed up much earlier than normal. It included a bit of rain (something we don’t usually get in October) and even snow on the mountains, something I have never seen in October! The…
I harvested mint and one large zucchini from the garden. We used it to make zucchini potato pancakes. My husband gave me a haircut and cut his own hair as well. My husband continued welding the large rose arbor for my climbing roses. Having a custom piece made for our garden would cost thousands of…
I harvested chives, basil, lemon verbena, and mint from the garden. My youngest son played with the large cardboard box that the paper towls came in all week. My teenager turned it into a rocket ship for him, and my youngest made “improvements” all week to it. I searched online for a fix to a…
I gave three sons haircuts. I purchased grapes on sale for $0.88 a pound. Even at this price, we go through so many so quickly. I hope the new grapes do well in the garden and that we have a good crop in a few years. I purchased apples on sale for $0.88 a pound,…
We came home from our trip to a warm refrigerator that had turned itself off. I was able to turn it back on without any problem, but the food in the refrigerator was lost (the food in the freezer was still cold). We cleaned out all the dust on the coils with an air compressor…
Note: All photos in this week’s post are from the garden at my children’s university, which we visited a couple of weeks ago. Last week we were invited to stay on a houseboat on Lake Powell. All we needed to bring for food was enough for us and the houseboat owners for three dinners. They…