Hi everyone! I hope you had a great week. Most of our weekend and Monday was cold, so I did some house projects and schluffed around indoors. On Tuesday it warmed up by 20 degrees or so, so I went to the nursery and bought some seeds and flowers and worked outside for this week!
1. Books: I saved several dollars by buying books on Ebay rather than Amazon. For the last few months I've been trying to check prices on both stores before ordering, as I want to get away from shopping on Amazon. If I can save money by NOT shopping on Amazon, then great! 2. Venetian Cornmeal Cookies: I tried a new recipe. The frugal thing about it was: it's a recipe I won't make again. It was a strange mix of really cheap ingredients (cornmeal, flour, sugar) and expensive ingredients like vanilla bean, raisins and orange zest. And it made a less-than-stellar cookie. If I'm going to use pricey ingredients, then by George I want it to make a good cookie! Or a good something else, like custard. 3. Yogurt: I made yogurt out of milk that was about to expire. 4. Garden: I planted carrots, lettuce and re-planted some sprouted onions in the garden. I also weeded, worked up and covered the soil so it will be reading for more planting in May. I also transplanted some volunteer lettuce and mulched it with grass "clippings" (I just pulled them out by hand) nearby. We also harvested cilantro, spinach, and parsnips. 5. Seed starting: I started the remaining warm-season plants indoors; cucumber, squash, gourds, pumpkins, and herbs (basil, cilantro and parsley). The cucurbits are fairly cheap to buy at the nursery as plants ($0.30-$0.50 per plant), but I had the seeds anyway, plus they don't sell some of the varieties that I planted. I will save about $24.00 if the herb seeds grow. Not only that, but it takes time to pack everyone up, drive to the nursery, pick out plants and drive home. So essentially I'm saving $35.00 with the same hour that I would have spent spending the $35.00. 6. I trapped and killed a racoon that was slaughtering my chickens. I also caught a mouse. 7. One of my hens went broody, so I moved her to a special broody spot. I hope she stays and hatches her eggs! In 10 years of having chickens, I've never tried to hatch eggs with a broody hen. Most people remove the first eggs and replace them with their preferred eggs, but I'm just going to let our hen sit on the four eggs that she has already adopted. Baby steps. 8. I cut a bouquet of lilacs for our table. That's about all for this week! I hope you all have a thrifty weekend! ~Prudence~
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