Well, it's been one of those weeks... I can't seem to remember a lot of thrifty things that I did. But here goes:
1. Garden: we harvested spinach and cilantro from the garden. I've noticed that ALL of my spinach is beginning to bolt, so I will probably freeze what is left. I planted ornamental gourd and watermelon seedlings. This is only the second time I've started all of my own seedlings rather than buy some (or all) from the nursery. The tomato seedlings look scrawny (as has been my experience with heirlooms) and many of the seedlings faced transplant shock, but so far most of them are doing well. 2. Laundry: line-dried most loads of laundry this week. It was incredibly humid, so I did end up putting two loads in the dryer. 3. Cooking: made sourdough bread and yogurt. We go through a decent amount of yogurt this time of year with smoothies. 4. Chickens: foraged different plants for our small chicks, who are still inside. In doing so, I'm teaching my toddler plant identification. This week we picked chickweed and wild mustard. I have also been setting our live traps for raccoons. I let our chickens free-range during the day, and in June the predators come out like crazy. This week we lost one chicken to a raccoon attack, and caught one raccoon. Since I only had five hens to begin with, losing one was a big loss. We'll see what the count is next week. 5. Exercise: played softball at a local park. I noticed that the playground had not been roped off, so we may utilize it this week as a bike ride destination. That's all for the week! I hope your June is shaping up to be a good one. ~Prudence~
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