Around the Homestead - Week of August 15th - 21

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Gardening Report:

• Friday -  no gardening work  just waiting for harvest to come in and DH's and My anniversary - we went on a date... stopped at the Co-op for one (heehee country couples anniversary!) and bought 30 tomato stakes
• Saturday - sprinkles of rain off and on all day
• Sunday - rest
• Monday - sprinkles of rain off and on all day so we didn't turn the sprinklers on
• Tuesday - sprinkles of rain off and on but we still ended up having to water the gardens as the full rain never came.
• Wednesday - watered gardens
• Thursday - watered gardens, picked beans, okra, tomatoes, peppers, picked peaches and figs

 

Harvesting Records for the week:

• 2 eggs
• 11 okra pods
• 19 slicing tomatoes
• 6 cherry tomatoes
• 4 onions
• 3 radishes
• 2 roma tomatoes that the migrant workers tossed out by the road near our home.  They tossed them because they were fully ripe.. nothing wrong with them. They are to pick them green or just slightly ripe. Then they get shipped to where they get gassed then shipped on to the stores.  Now you know why the "store" tomatoes never tasted like real tomatoes from a garden. LOL
• 4 gypsy peppers
• 1 jalapeno
• 1 cowhorn peppers
• 1 cayenne pepper
• 5 peaches
• 5 figs
• 1 cup of grapes from our vines
• 1 gallon basket of green beans
• 4 green onions

Home Preserving Log:

Canning

Freezing

Dehydrating

Inside Work:

• Friday -
  • School work with children
  • 3 loads of laundry
  • ironing
  • girls cleaning room and decluttering
• Saturday - running errands and spending time with family, not much inside work done
• Sunday - rest
• Monday -
  • School Work with children
  • laundry
  • cleaning
• Tuesday -
  • school work with children
  • laundry
  • cleaning and straightening up
• Wednesday -
  • school work with the children
  • laundry
  • cleaning
• Thursday -
  • school work with the children
  • more laundry

Menus:

• Friday Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Toast, HG Tomato Slices, Iced Cinnamon Rolls (given to us), mini Banana-Walnut Muffins (given to us)
• Friday Dinner: turkey dogs
• Friday Supper:  Dh took me out for our anniversary while dd#1 babysat her siblings - she gave them sandwiches to make it quick and easier on her
• Saturday Breakfast - scrambled eggs, bacon, toast
• Saturday Dinner -   treated out to a local Mexican Restaurant
• Saturday Supper - Salad, Sandwiches, Fresh Plums
• Sunday Breakfast -  Oatmeal
• Sunday Dinner - Pinto Beans & Cornbread, Zucchini Relish
• Sunday Supper - leftovers
• Monday Breakfast: Oatmeal and Bananas
• Monday Dinner:  sandwiches
• Monday Supper:  beans and cheese burritos
• Tuesday Breakfast -  french toast and fruit
• Tuesday Dinner:  sandwiches and salad
• Tuesday Supper: we met dh at Taco Bell for celebration of his and oldest dd's first day back at Bible College this semester and as a celebration for Nathan's 3rd birthday although we had went to Ryan's earlier this month.
• Wednesday Breakfast -  granola & fruit
• Wednesday Dinner -  sandwiches
• Wednesday Supper - sandwiches and salad
• Thursday Breakfast - pancakes and fruit
• Thursday Dinner - sandwiches
• Thursday Supper -  Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup (dd#1 made it)

 Other:

• Friday - Our 11th Wedding Anniversary (dh and I went on a date and paid dd#1 to babysit)
• Wednesday -
  • a friend at church gave us about a 5 dozen lot of mixed canning jars
  • another friend gave the two youngest girls 2 dresses each that she had bought for the girls.
• Thursday - our farmer friend dropped off a bushel of tomatoes to us and said he would be back with more. He stopped back by with:
  • 3.5 bushels of slicing tomatoes farmer friend
  • 3.5 bushels of roma tomatoes from farmer friend

 

Blessings Abound!

 

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