Greetings, All.
Welcome to March.
Well, like all of you, we’ve been doing a bit of shopping. I made of list of the best items for treating this flu and we were able to get most of them last week. I’d like to get more. One thing we don’t really have or use is wipes. Could not find any that really qualify for serious health cleaning use. Did find a recipe to make hand sanitizer and wipes, but have no local lead on essential oils. I will need to work on that.
We did learn that our son and his family are prepared. Good for them. I have not talked to my daughter about any of this. I hope to do that at the end of this week. She has her big exam tomorrow and I do not want to bother her. They are not good at advance planning. She is the planner but he does the shopping and most of the cooking and is impetuous and scattered and probably could not plan a menu for two weeks, let along three or longer. Not much storage room in that house. With big teenagers they would need an entire room just for the food.
Hubby does not want to go to our Ham Radio club meeting this Saturday. We have no Covid-19 cases in our state, but he is very concerned about exposure.
Our pantry is fine. I hope. Working on better organization and inventory. I have been working on menus and cross-checking to make sure we have those ingredients stored. I am also going to check on the pantry supply for dessert ingredients for my Sweetie’s Sweet tooth so I can keep him happy. I don’t go after cupcakes or candy; it is some chocolate, but mostly savory stuff for me. Tomorrow is grocery 10% discount for old folks day, so I want to have a good list. Definitely getting more flour and yeast, Zinc tablets and looking for multi-vitamins (found no back-up) and elderberry. Have been experimenting with more vegetarian/vegan meals. Some are tasty and others not so much. I have been developing a recipe file for the ones that we really like. Things like guacamole are going into the freezer.
Meanwhile, I continue to find “stuff” things that we do not need to keep and add them to boxes for a garage sale. I will soon run out of places to put the boxes.
The silver maples are tapped. The sweets are his job – jelly and syrup.
I just read about someone who grows all of her own food on 8/10 of an acre – in England. Cannot do that here in zone 4 without a heated green house. I can at least try a hoop house to get some things in early; that is a goal for this spring. Our garden does expand and improve each year. If the family helped we might be able to grow enough.
It is time to start seeds – inside. I am thinking of starting some lettuces for indoor use in case we cannot get to the store. I miss the fresh greens and tomatoes in the winter. I don’t know of any patio type tomatoes that would be good indoors; I’ll need to look for those. No outdoor gardening here yet. There is still a foot of snow on the ground. It will be a challenge to get to the shed for the soil and pots for lettuce.
I mentioned that last summer our propane driver dropped off two pairs of work jeans for me to repair the knees. He picked them up and brought MORE farm fresh eggs; I took those in lieu of payment. I asked if “his” eggs were fertile and if I could hatch them. Lol We just put the unwashed eggs in the basement in the cool and dark.
Went to our caucus last week and met some close “as the crow flies” neighbors. They also have chickens and sell eggs. If we can make a connection with them, I will have a source for fresh eggs even if we cannot get to the store. Perhaps I can get hubby to “like” chickens and be willing to build a henhouse for our own. I’m sure he’d change his mind if the world collapsed.
Stay healthy everyone. I hope the Virus just “miraculously” goes away but I know you are all prepared if it doesn’t.
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