The day is gorgeous!!!!
Cool and calm, a perfect day for dreaming of the future, getting things
done and simply breathing.
It’s been a wash day for me, washing curtains, rugs, bed and
loveseat covers …. It’s to rain a few
days this coming week but today and tomorrow are to be very nice. We’re going
to load hay tomorrow so today is a big laundry day. I’ve oddly always enjoyed
doing laundry. By hand or machine, on the line or even in a dryer. I enjoy the
washing, handing, folding … all.
We actually started the day a little wonky in that Anya got
her front legs under a top line and over a bottom line of fencing. It took
great forethought an effort to get stuck thusly and more so, it took bolt
cutters to get her unstuck. One of my greenhouse cattle panels is patching the
spot for now.
All of our pekin ducklings were sold before they hatched and
are now at their new home. I’m getting ready to start another batch and they’re
also already sold.
In my most recent trading I got a little manual ice cream
maker with a cylinder that you freeze. I was skeptical at first but now I’m a
true ice cream eating believer! It work
wonderfully and our own goats milk ice cream is the best ice cream we’ve ever
tasted. I’ve made French vanilla, chocolate, banana and blackberry.
In that same deal I got a lovely huge cotton Fall
tablecloth, a set of 8 drinking glasses, a little sturdy warm rug, a set of
curtains and a little table runner. It was a fairly unusual deal but well worth
it .
And speaking of trades, last year I traded for some rabbit
furs. I’ve been planning to make a winter patchwork fur bed cover and still
might eventually but I’m getting ready to make a couple pairs of moccasins and
if one fur is large enough I’m going to make one pair of fur lined. I’ve not
made them in years and no longer have a leather needle (which I might be able
to find) but if they do come out well enough I’ll use a pair or two for trading
as well. Probably wait and make them custom to fit. I’m limited on leather but
have several large pieces that someone dyed red (given to me free), so red
moccasins will be it :)
I’ve finished all the tomatoes and almost all the zucchini
and am waiting to find out about shell beans and then hopefully some more
tomatoes plus cucumbers and green peppers. We’ll see. We could surely use them.
There may be a deal on trading some propane things I have
for sale, for firewood. That would be a great thing! We’ll see on that as well.
I’ll be unpacking some blankets a little later, it’s been that
cold at night :) They always washed, dried well and stored in
cedar chests until needed again. When I unpack them I usually hang them outside
for a bit to airout. I love the cedar smell but it can be overwhelming too.
It seems like I just packed the blankets up a couple of
months go.
I still need to get the last curtains done, start a batch of
walnut salve, start a batch of elderberry cough & throat syrup, rack off
another bottle of mead, check the Winter Tonic, sweep the floors, do the
dishes, milk the goat …….
There’s a lovely garden spider just outside the window. How
very blessed we are.
Within the last 24 hours
2:22 am
12:12 / a few minutes apart on two different clocks
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