Happy Thanksgiving & A Street Smart Hen

Hello, friends.  Last week, I sewed a button on a shirt, and mended the embroidery on another.  All laundry was dried on the line.  I weeded the rest of the carrot bed, and brought another 5 gal. bucket of weeds to the chickens.  Another day, I worked on the beet bed, and the chickens got another bucket of weeds.  I hand washed a cashmere sweater with homemade soap gel.  After an appointment, I stopped at a thrift store, and found a stainless Farberware sauce pot for $6 and a bag of blackout fabric for $5, both for the skoolie, and a canister for my shop.  I harvested the first collards, and made dirty rice and collards, which we enjoyed with our sweet potatoes.

Golden paste was made for the pups.  I used $25.25 in rewards towards my CC bill, which was paid before accruing any interest.  Kale was harvested for a salad.  Hay was placed around the carrot bed, and on the portion of the beet bed I've weeded.  J & I cleaned up the tromboncino and cucumber trellises, and will burn the remains.  More calendula seeds were gathered.  I'd been noticing mama game hen, who raised a brood this summer, had begun disappearing again.  She was eating with the others in the morning, but was gone when I came back to bring their mash, later in the day.  I wandered around the second chicken yard, and looked in the woods around the yards, then J joined in, but we couldn't find her.  We decided she had to be closer.  I thought to look under the coop, which had a small opening just big enough for a tiny hen, and sure enough, we found a nest with 15 eggs!  I watched for her the next morning, and about a minute after the others were let out for the day, she snuck out from her hiding place.  That girl's got street smarts! :o).

I was able to pick up organic lemons last week on sale.  As I've used them, I grated and froze the lemon zest, for future recipes.  I filled the dehydrator with celery, and powdered it when dry.  Knowing Thursday would be my only day at home this week, I decided to bake sweet potatoes for pie Sunday morning.  We're still working on finishing the '22 sweet potatoes.  All that are left are the huge football ones, which are perfect for pies.  I baked a pie and froze it, so that piece of our Thanksgiving meal is done, except for reheating.  We plan to have a quiet day at home, and I'd prefer if my entire day wasn't spent in the kitchen. but to have some time to just enjoy the day.  If you're celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you too have an enjoyable day.