What a beautiful week we’ve had! We had rain twice this week; once on Monday evening and then early on Saturday morning. It is very unusual to get any rain in August, and we missed our 1-2 days of rain in July that usually come (they never did this year). Monday’s rain was a half inch…
I am still ill but was determined to accomplish as much as possible last week. Unfortunately, that went like this: I was laying in bed on Sunday with a pen and paper on the bed next to me, and I thought, “Why don’t I write a list of the things I can get done this…
I spent almost all of last week sick in bed. I managed to get up to wash a few loads of laundry and do a couple of things. I’ve written all of the posts I had hoped to share with you last week–but a couple of them aren’t published yet until I can get up…
I sewed a new cover for Winter’s bicycle seat using leather scraps we had. We’re going to make some covers for her handles as well as repaint her bike in the next couple of weeks. From the garden, we harvested grapes, a few tomatoes, figs, a pear, 2 Armenian cucumbers, a zucchini, basil, and green…
This past week, I did a lot of rearranging of pictures in the house. I changed out some pictures in frames that we already had and hung pictures in the house in new places. I also redesigned my gallery wall above the dining table. I had to steal three matching frames from elsewhere in…
It’s the middle of summer and temperatures here reached 114º (45ºC) last week. We’re mostly staying indoors, but we did get some things picked from the garden, including table grapes and Concord grapes. I’ve had a Concord vine for many years, and this is the first time I’ve harvested from it. I have 2…
This post contains affiliate links. I spent a lot of time organizing this past week. We moved furniture around in the house to other rooms, filled several bags to donate (and dropped them off at the thrift shop), sold furniture on the local Facebook garage sale page (and put a price tag of $0…
We picked peaches, apricots, and grapes from the garden. I canned 4 quarts of applesauce, 10 1/2 pints apricot vanilla jam, 9 quarts of peaches, and 9 quarts of grape juice from our garden produce. I canned 4 quarts of cranberry juice and 4 1/2 pints of cranberry sauce with cranberries I had bought in…
Last week did not go at all as I had planned. The garden has a myriad of fruit ripe all at once, which is normally ripe over a three month period, leaving me scrambling to harvest and preserve it. Normally we would just eat most of it fresh and preserve some of it, but the…
We picked apples, plums, peaches, and apricots from the garden. I cut two bunches of grapes from the garden. We cut larkspur, gladiolas, and lilies from the garden for three flower arrangements inside. I planted seeds for cucumbers yet again in my garden, as most of my seedlings have once again disappeared. Though I…
I harvested Green Gage plums, Dorsett Golden apples, 2 bunches of Red Flame grapes, and the last of the blackberries from the garden. I cut garlic chives, Swiss chard, and green onions from the garden. I cut larkspur and roses from the garden. I sewed a peasant blouse for Elsa from some fabric trim I…
Last week I had three family members gone at camp for the majority of the week. I took on many of their chores myself, so my list for this week is much shorter than usual. When everyone asks how I get so much done, it really is because everyone helps with chores. We picked figs…