#making do

Batch cooked chicken today (salt & pepper legs & Cajun BBQ thighs). While that's cooling off for the freezer, going to wash some new jars so I can store up veggies tomorrow.

Not canning anything yet (will be soon!), but if you store fresh cut veg in water in an airtight container they last longer. We do carrots, celery, & peppers this way.

I still check on what the monks are doing now that they have finished their Walk for Peace, and today I found out the head of the walk is planning to write a book about the walk based on the extensive journal he kept during that time. That made me laugh, but not for the reason you think. Here is this guy who got up before dawn every morning, meditated for an hour, walked 25 to 30 miles (half the…

… to get some physical labour done! My broken old body may betray me now and then, or the weather may not be cooperative, but gosh I do love it when I can do physical labour! I actually ended up going into town again today. I realized we weren’t going to have enough kibble for the outside cats to last us until our first stock up shop next week, and with other things on my calendar, it was…

Well, I seem to have pushed myself a bit too much, yesterday. I actually needed to use painkillers before doing to bed last night. In the morning, I asked my daughters to do the morning routine while I took more pain killers and tried to get a bit more sleep. Which the cats sabotaged, of course! My younger daughter needed to hit the grocery store, so she went along with me to the hardware store…