Hello!
How has everyones week started?
The last couple of days I have been trying to work through some essential food processing tasks among other things to get back on track.
Unfortunately it seems my list is getting longer and not shorter!
Yesterday I got to the corn. Tonight I made chicken sweet corn soup with some of it and it was pretty good!
The chooks were really happy as they got the cobs to play with!
They are totally bored of the tomatoes, but the corn is still a very exciting treat!
Yesterday the stall made $5!!
*Shrugs* its $5 I didn’t have before.
Today was much more impressive… $25! One lady I invited in as she showed interest in some other things, so we went around the garden with her little boy picking carrots, herbs, chillies – I don’t put everything out there as I just have to deal with it if it doesn’t sell.
While it doesn’t look much – there is an awful lot of tomatoes in those 4 containers!! I got all the manky tomatoes – ones that were going a little funny or had been nibbled on (Basically anything not being sold to passers by) cut out all the dodgy bits and made up a pasta sauce (Along with my capsicums, onion, garlic & herbs)
Just got to find room to get them into the freezer. They will be great to have when we no longer have the fresh produce.
I did a small amount of actual gardening.
This has been driving Jeff mad – my collection of dead sunflowers and sweet peas.
I wanted to collect seeds so I needed time to get to it – ripping things out is easy. Collecting the seeds, more tedious!
Pip was my cheer-squad
Anyway, it was a start. Next is to collect the fennel seeds and pull all those up – they are getting a bit messy too.
Actually everything is messy right now!!
This afternoon I went up to see my cousin, Fiona and return the camping/hiking gear that her family was generous enough to lend us! It was great using their stuff and deciding what gear we want to invest in to continue this hiking thing!
On the way home I was lucky enough to see a pretty nice rainbow -so I actually stopped the car to get out and get a few shots.
Seriously – I am such an A to B person when driving. I hate stopping!!
But I think it was worth the pause to admire!
Cheers
