I woke up this morning and thought, "I think I forgot to write a blog post yesterday. Wait a minute, did I even write one last week??" That's how crazy the last eight days have been! First with Memorial Day weekend, then we had three days in succession of evening activities, plus a fencing crisis. And it's only going to get crazier as my market strawberry patch begins bearing fruit in a few days.
Anyhow, I thought I'd pop in and share a few frugal things I did this week. 1. Paused a newspaper subscription. I pay about $2.50 a week for the Epoch Times. I'd subscribed for a year, but haven't been able to read more than the headlines in the last few weeks. My first thought was to cancel it, but then I discovered that you can pause it for up to three months. So I did. Moving forward, I may only renew such subscriptions for six months at a time; October thru March, since I simply run out of time during the warmer months to read. 2. Fixed the chicken fence with fencing we already had. It should keep the chickens IN, which will keep them OUT of my strawberries, vegetables and flower beds. Hopefully it will also keep our steer IN, as he's already defoliated about 1/3 of my strawberries under plastic, just from getting out a few times. My next step, probably happening this weekend, is to fence in the strawberries. 3. Harvested spinach and radishes from the garden. I also froze a bunch of spinach, since it's starting to bolt. My garden brain has been spinning with all that I want/need to do. I planted sweet corn this week, but the patch is so small I don't know if it will pollinate itself. I want to start a new bed by my vegetables and plant some field corn there. I also found a bunch of poison ivy that I need to spray, plus I harvested rose petals this morning and the lavender is due for harvesting in a day or two... I'm telling you, my mind is a blur with all of the outdoor things that need to be done. 4. I made a few local history discoveries this week. Family Search now has people linked to most, if not all of their records, which saves a lot of time and allows you to find records of the person that were misspelled or otherwise misrepresented. For example, one person I'm researching is named "Oliver", but his name is also spelled "Olive", "Olivia" and even "Alvin" on census and other records! I'm not sure if the links between records and people are a new feature or just new to me, but it's a lot of fun and makes research (for a novel series I'll be writing) a lot faster. 5. Our electricity bill has been switched from a standard rate to on- and off-peak hours; off peak being the cheaper hours. So I've rearranged my cooking and laundry schedules to accommodate that. Sadly this probably won't reduce our bill, but it will prevent it from increasing. I find that this is better for the summer anyway, since it's miserable to cook during the heat of the day... and we are going to have several 90 degree days in the coming week. That's about it for this morning! I need to hurry off now and get the dishwasher running and dry some of those rose petals before the increased electricity rate kicks in this afternoon. Blessings, ~Prudence~
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About PrudenceI am a Christian homemaker who lives in the Midwest. I enjoy sewing, gardening, reading and thrifting. Archives
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