Today was sunny and warm (55 degrees high). Jack kept wanting to spend time outside. I went out for a little bit with him a couple times this morning, but I told him “I have work to do” and made us come back inside. He doesn’t do “alone”, he has to have someone with him at all times.
Then I did a little bit of work.
Then I noticed the weather report and that it would be raining the next couple of days, so…I gave in. We went back outside and I worked on one area of the garden. We now have one small bed ready for planting. And one walkway area mulched.
I think this bed will be for lettuce and peas. Let me check my garden plan I made last month – I am close, I have this bed marked for lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes, onions. I think the idea was to pick a few, not plant all of those. I think just lettuce and peas will do, the lettuce kind of takes over and I actually made the bed smaller than I had planned in order to make the walkway which is an addition to the driveway because if we have a vehicle parked there, there is nowhere to walk.
The strawberry bed still has some snow and is quite wet, so I didn’t work on that area, though I would have liked to. Its going to be even wetter if we get rain for 2 days!
This was in pending posts from 4-28-2009
Look what I found in my garden this morning!
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This will be my testing area for WordPress since I hope to do more styling projects. I am starting out here with the mnmlist theme by Leo Babauta . It has the very very bare essentials.
I have pretty much abandoned this Word Press site for this one because I needed to learn Joomla. I have moved all the posts from this site to the new one, just haven’t moved the pictures of my grandchildren over yet, …too much work…
This is what I want for Christmas please!
Whenever I mention to people that I am making bread, they say “oh! you have a bread machine!”
NO I do NOT have a bread machine. You do not need a bread machine to make bread for pete sakes! You just mix the dough and then you knead it for about 10 minutes. It is an enjoyable thing to do, although it can be a little hard on the hands, especially if you have arthritis in them like I do. But for now, it isn’t bothering me and I am teaching Caitlin how to do it too.
I learned how to knead dough way back in the 70’s when I first learned how to bake bread. I didn’t bake bread for a good number of years, but now that I work from home I have time and the inclination to bake bread again, among other things I have started doing from scratch again. It isn’t difficult to knead, but here is a good video that explains why kneading is important, and how to do it:
How To Knead Bread Dough
4 cups hot water mixed with
2 teaspoons borax
1 teaspoon washing soda
4 tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon Murphy’s Oil Soap
The water has to be hot in order to dissolve the borax and washing soda
I used this recipe on our walls, with a little Murphy’s Oil Soap added, and it did an excellent job of cleaning off the yellow smoke gunk. Wipe it on and let it set a minute or two, then I used some rinse water (although if you don’t smoke, you don’t really need to rinse) for best results!
1 gallon water, mixed with
1 cup ammonia
1/2 cup vinegar
1/4 cup baking soda
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 cup sugar
4 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Directions:
Blend cocoa powder and sugar in a bowl. In saucepan, bring milk to scalding, stirring frequently. Mix 1/3 cup hot milk into cocoa-sugar mix and pour that into the saucepan. Stir and add vanilla.
