1.) keeping all those odds and end vegetables in the freezer and bags of split peas and lentils in the cupboard pay off making big pots of soup to eat during this freeze in.. even if Esme and Mark don't eat it, I eat it and they can eat the other things. I just don't actually get to making the pots of soup often enough and when they make dinner I usually eat it with them.
2.) we did the stock up runs last week 'just in case' and just in case did happen - we bought extra goat feed, cracked corn and chicken feed, and we've opened them all. I should have stocked one extra bag of dry cat food, too. We have enough because I stocked up an extra stack of their wet food they get every night - but it would run out before the other feeds
Our prep was running after work to what place was open - feed store one day, propane the next day (we stood in line for an hour, luckily did get some), stocked up on a few groceries that day which we are using now - Esme found the very last gallon of whole milk at that time the store had - and we are using it - and the store was out of almost all kinds of bread and many vegetables already - next day hunt for bread and a few other things, got one loaf, next day : hunt for bread for Grandma and a case of water, dropped her off one loaf from the same place we got one the day before, which we used just a little bit when the power was out and the well was off.
used : both containers of ready-to-mix pudding I bought, Esme's ramen, frozen biscuits, bacon, split peas, all the cookies, baking powder
could have used but then found some in our storage : quart jar rings! and we need to find the propane adapter for the bottle - we didn't need to use the camp stove this time around but we came close , I filled all four clean quart jars we had with water and put rings on them and put them in the room with the propane heater in case we really did get to a bad level with our water. we wished we had filled up the two five gallon buckets and set them in the bathtub (our bathtub does not hold water long-term) although we had filled about six gallon containers and used three of them before the 9 hour power outage ended. We were SO lucky to not have pipes burst.
glad to have had in storage : brown lentils, whole wheat flour, regular flour
3.) Mark and Esme aren't eating the soda bread, either - but I am. I've had it every day since I made it in some way or other. I had put half of it, sliced, in the freezer, and put that in hot soup today.
4.) when I'm studying lots of languages together, my facebook has NO idea nor my pinterest - they're picking it up somewhere as a cookie or something, and then my ads and recommendations are in all sorts of wild languages. Interesting, but also eyebrow raising.
5.) you'd think I'd start editing one of my books, yea, you'd think that
6.) did start a weaving, made a washcloth, finished a rug, and cleaned part of the upstairs
7.) did the budget for the next few months being pessimistic because I have missed a week of work and I know we will need to be even more careful
8.) reminded myself that risking vehicle, life or limb is the worse of those situations, multiple times, and of course I still beat myself up about it every few hours
9.) audited my knit items that I've made that I was told by many 'you'll never use that' etc... yea, ta-da, using all of it, thank you. It's not time wasted. The shawl that took months to finish, wrapped around me right now. The other little shawls that were 'why do you need that?' one of them is in my bed as an extra shoulder cover at night. The gloves that took weeks, each pair, EXTREMELY useful, and when one is wet the other one is ready. The rugs and small wraps and slipper socks and hats and scarves. I've got them, and I know how to use them. The queen sized knit striped blankets I spent more than a year making - four of them - one for each of us and one for grandma - we each have one on our beds right now and are using them.
10.) staring at my garden seed trays that I never planted much out of last year, but did use the things I did plant
11.) Mark has grown an absolutely enormous and lovely aloe vera crown from the bits he took off my plant upstairs that is still struggling to live
12.) Turkish, Polish, Czech, Japanese, Lithuanian/Latvian, French, and that guy in the podcast assures us that if we don't focus on just one language for an extended period of time we'll never learn it. Spock Eyebrow.
13.) If we had breeding goats they'd be dropping tons of babies right now - seeing it all over the feed, quadruplets, quints, sextuplets, etc. etc.. one goat is a lot, and fifteen chickens - and I don't spend quite enough time with them as it is.
14.) We are thinking about getting a few more chicks this year because of the aging out of the flock we have - and winter hardiness was always a big point for us - the Sapphire Gems have done fairly well, still have four out of the six but the two that we lost a few years ago were one right after the other. The Cinnamon Queens have been the best. I feel sorry for my little Americaunas sometimes so much smaller than the others, except the yellow one, Speck, which might have been a cross over from another box, because she grew up an entirely different color and size than the others.
15.) lots of notes, what we need to stock up on again, budget, reminders for later etc.
16.) ribboning the extra whole fresh carrots and putting them in the freezer from the meal a few weeks ago worked great - the last of that went in the soup today.
17.) when the soup is nearly overboiling on the stove, the celery seed smells strongly *ha*
split peas
frozen bits of bacon, onion, summer squash, carrots, ginger,
bit of olive oil
celery seed
black pepper
small bit of 5 spice powder
water
boil long until the split peas are well mushed
blend it all up, put up a quart jar to cool and then in the fridge
eat the rest
*eating the rest*
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