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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up: Preparing for School

In my life this week …  Despite needing a few days to recover from an over busy weekend, it was a good week.  There wasn’t much gardening to do, nor much preserving, though we dried some lovage and are planning to freeze some basil in oil today.   (I use both the dried lovage and the […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Another Full, Full Week

In my life this week …  God has been so good to us in so many ways:  We’re hoping to save money by heating with wood. This week our fireplace insert was installed.  Then we were given several cords of firewood, free for the cutting.  Our cherry plums continue to produce, and the second tree […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Indulging our Squirrel Complex and More

In my life this week …  We’ve been outside, gardening, doing yard work, and cleaning up the barn to hold a woodpile…for we’re going to try to heat our home with wood this winter.  We’ve never tried anything like that before. We pickled cucumbers, lots of them, with grape leaves to make them crisp.  Apparently […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Mostly Gardening

In my life this week …  We finished planting the garden!  The final task was replanting the peppers that never came up…and since it’s so warm, we even put in some eggplant.  I hope they will produce.  We may still need to replant some of the kale and Brussels sprouts, though. Our Manchurian apricot trees, […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Three-Fifths Done!

In my life this week… We planted more of the garden.  Even the tomatoes are in, a few days early, but the forecast looked good enough to risk it; frost in mid-June is not nice!  It’s been so busy with the garden and all, that I felt overwhelmed.  Then my husband took us to a Medieval […]