Tuesday To-Do 5/12

Last week inside: Purge office.  Breakfast sandwiches.  Peanut butter crackers.  Popcorn.  Grapes.   Deep clean 2nd bathroom. Clean ceiling fans.  Check AC filters. Clean under kitchen sink.  Reorganize pantry. Gather dead plants and compost.  

Sausage, egg, cheese bagels
to freeze for family's
weekday breakfast.

This week's chores inside are: Finish last week's chores.  Clean kitchen corner.  I had a plastic drawer storage container break and I need to reevaluate and reorganize everything that was in that container and in that corner.  I need to organize the green baker's rack that has spices and other baking items. Make more of hubby's oats.  Reorganize the living room bookcase.




Last week outside chores:   Finish weed eating the driveway.  Fill the raised bed on the other side. Sow tomatoes.  Plant pole beans, squash. Work on doggy door path.  Dust the chicken coop. Wash the feeders and tub.  Find DE (diatomaceous earth)-it wasn't at the closest feed store so will check in big town. Stake peach tree.  Go through wood pile for new step. Breed Flower and Thumper (rabbits). Reorganizing the tool shed.  Start on burn pit.  Cut down saplings.

This week's chores outside are: Finish last week's list: Catch the newest litter of free range bunnies before the hawks get them.  Fill one trash bag from porch.  Straw the ducks.  Cut the weeds around the front steps.  Wash the house and the feed shed where it is getting yucky and green moldy looking with vinegar water.  If that doesn't work, I will pour in some Joy dish soap, but vinegar usually does the job. Pull the honeysuckle off of the garden fence, and inspect where rabbits might be getting in...still. 

Honestly, last week seemed very busy but just with the basic chores.  Weeding the garden, watering the garden, taking care of the livestock, sowing and transplanting, making lunch snack bags and cooking meals and extras. I just didn't get to progress with the chores as I should.  I think that the next two weeks (or more) are going to be the same way.  My daughter has a lot of things going on such as concerts, graduation and all of the ceremonies that go with that, and banquets for chorale, etc.  I am feeling unproductive on paper, but busy as a bee in real time.  That can make one anxious if you don't sit down and remember what you really did.  For example, it took over two hours just to mulch the blueberries after taking the wheelbarrow down into the woods, raking under the pine trees, sorting a little bit, running from ground hornets, packing it in the wheelbarrow and pushing it back to the yard, opening the berry fence and then finally actually mulching the berries and giving that a good douse of water.  Of course, then doing that one more time just for good measure.  Also, Oreo has a horrible cut on his front leg that we are trying to mend.  I believe that he got hit by a car.  His head healed and I see where his back is somewhat scraped looking under the fur.  We are spraying his leg with Blue-Kote and wrapping it up until he tears it off a couple of days later and then we do it again.  I am not sure it is healing, but I did give him penicillin shots and he definitely feels better and the "infection" smell is gone.  Oh, and having only worked in the medical field for 18 years or so, although in a clerical / supportive role, transcribing the doctors' notes from various fields, including family practice, it never occurred to me that being allergic to penicillin and it touching your skin would cause an allergic reaction.  Good thing I am staying on the farm now, I guess.

Oreo recovering from
his outpatient procedure,
or just trying to milk it to stay
inside...