I have guests coming this afternoon so I had better get busy with turning the Airbnb over. No time to waste so I have literally blocked out today like a workday. My old fashioned workday as a teacher, changing classes every hour on the dot. I would have a bell too if I thought I could rig one up!I love to be super organized but seldom actually achieve it.
Here is my list for today. (as well as feeding everyone of course).
- Water pig sprouts. Water seedlings and little trees.
2. Toast nuts, seeds and oatmeal for guest cookies.
2. Turn bread dough out to rest. Put laundry in machine. Get ground beef out of freezer for tonight’s hamburgers. Shape dough for guest loaf and set to rise in baskets. Shape buns for tonight’s hamburgers and set to rise.
3. Hang laundry out.
4. Bring Del and Tia into the milking room to practice standing in the stanchion eating corn(vet coming Tuesday).
5. Shift Del and her mob into Dairy Mistress Field.
6. Brush both Tima and Tane (they got into the burrs).
7. Spread chicken manure.
8. Shift beef mob into Alfalfa Field Number Two.
9. Pick tomatoes, make zuchinni relish (for tonight’s hamburgers), pick beetroot and water watermelon.
10. Clean porches and outside windows of the Coop for this afternoons guests.
11. Buy milk yoghurt etc for guest fridge. Find some chrysanthemums for disastrous front garden. Mow lawns. Water trees.
Is that all? – let me think a moment. Have a look at yesterdays pictures while I think. I am still using the iPhone. I must get the camera back out soon.
Too sweet and quite friendly too. Most of my images are a blur as they potter over to gnaw on whatever part of me they can reach. Way too close. As you can see I was on the ground when I took these .
Oh that’s right:
12. Waters – refill troughs
13. Burn paper rubbish (Illinois is no longer doing much recycling, the majority of America’s recycling was being bought by China and now they have lost that market for their garbage so one by one the towns and cities are suspending their recycling programs – from now on it goes to the landfill). This is a very recent development and in the news.
14. Take garbage bags into MIL’s for town pick up.
At the minimum I HAVE to stop buying stuff encased in plastic, and we HAVE to stop using plastic bags at the supermarket. My other problem is that I take my cloth shopping bags then forget to get them out of the car or forget to put them IN the car. I have to find a way to do that better. Plus beer in cans and wine in bottles!! – How am I going to get around that problem – stop drinking?. Not LIKELY!
From now on anything you put in the trash is just being piled up in your country’s back yard. It is the same in New Zealand. Don’t feel picked on. It is a universal issue.
AND it is a problem we can solve individually. We all have the power to do better with rubbish. So – I am burning and/or composting the paper rubbish and returning the carbon to the gardens. Buying in bulk to cut down on packaging. And Right this minute I am taking my shopping bags to the car!
Our great- grandchildren will be living on TOP of our garbage if we are not very careful.
OK. Coffee time is over. Oatmeal is toasting, bread is rising and the washing is ON. The watering is done and the hoses are ready to go down the back. The Six pigs are fighting over their feed bin so I had better get them more feed.
Then TO THE LIST!
Celi
PS THANK you for all the zuchinni ideas in the Lounge yesterday. I made the zuchinni and tomato curry last night and it was fantastic. Everyone loved it so that one goes on the ‘frequent’ list. Today is the relish! Many thanks.
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30 responses to “CUTE PICS”
And you sleep when? Those piglets are adorable.
I just bought a dress made out of recycled plastic. It’s beautiful, comfortable, doesn’t wrinkle, and you do NOT iron it! My mum used cloth bags when we were kids, and I use them too. Markets and piggies: – ‘This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home….”. Have fun with your guests, busy person!
Goodness! Do you return it when it wears out and they make it into another dress? What a fascinating idea.
Here in NSWthey are trucking… via many many B-Double semi trailers on the rosds… our landfill interstate to Queensland because it’s cheaper… rather than coming up with better solutions. Makes me very cranky. We try to mimise our waste but bloody plastic packaging is ubiquitous. I keep 2 roll up carry bags in my hand bag as well as cloth bags in both cars. Not a perfect solution but wine in a box [cask wine] quality has gotten much better at the top end. Swapping some out, especially as I mostly drink it mixed with sparkling water i.e. spritzer, saves so much recycling of glass bottles.
Huge grin, Dale! – I knew I was doing something right in ordering cask wine even if for a different reason . . . . de Bortoli better methinks than a heap of cheap bottles! Oh the unfortunate cheating now after the compulsory changeover : I get all my groceries on line – late last night’s delivery all pristinely packed in a multitude of these new plastic bags just official . . . . was charged 15 cents for one bag for the whole delivery . . . . .Ha ! Progress ?
Celi, you’re one busy girl! Those piglets are adorable. Cut the tops and bottoms off the beer cans, cut down the side and use them for siding on a shed or coop. I don’t get many aluminum cans but have made a couple small sculptures with pieces cut from them – little mobiles the move and flutter in the wind – using pieces of scrap copper wire of different gauges for the structure and to hold the pieces on. My spouse used to have a device that cut wine bottles and a special file to smoothe the edges and made drinking glasses or gave them to a friend who did lampwork glass beads with them. You’re right about not recycling, we’ll end up with nothing but a garbage pile everywhere.
That second #2 is a list of its own.
I often wonder what China actually used our recycled plastic for. We got to feel all warm and fuzzy about recycling our plastics, but when China is ranked as one of the world’s largest plastic polluting nations, it makes me wonder what was actually happening to it all. Surely it would be better to develop some initiatives in our own countries for dealing with recyclables? And shipping plastic across the oceans causes more carbon footprint as well. If we can’t recycle it, then maybe something like what Sweden and Norway have going: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/14/norway-waste-energy. It’s not a perfect method for dealing with rubbish but better than landfill, and also stops the use of fossil fuels for power generation. I think there needs to be more funding given to dealing with waste disposal methods. I saw a horrifying article on the beautiful Maldives, the part you don’t see, all the rubbish the tourists leave behind, has turned one of the islands into a stinking toxic wasteland and is threatening to leak into the sea. Rubbish really is the biggest environmental concern that I can see in the 21st century, even more so than climate change (I know some won’t agree with me). As just one person it is hard to see how we can make a difference, but if everyone did their bit in cutting back on waste, it will all add up.
Your to-do list is daunting! In Cornwall there is an eco-push here, because we are so close to the sea people are more aware of the dangers of plastic. A couple of re-fill stores have opened up in walking distance of me. I can walk to buy things like flour, cereal, sugar, pasta, rice, dried fruit, washing up liquid, laundry powder, cleaning products and put them all in my own tupperware containers or reuse my old plastic cleaning sprays. So much less plastic to throw away. Now we just need the stores to sell alcohol on tap!
Whose a busy busy little bee…busy as a be should be. I got stung by one yesterday so l am ‘off’ bees… But like bees..you must remember to stop and rest your wings
I had to start putting my wallet in the cloth grocery bags in the car to remind me to take them into the store.
I don’t know of a beer can solution, but there are some home wine makers who would likely take your empty wine bottles off your hands, if you can connect with them.
Love the wallet idea!!