Back to Basics Challenge - Week 1

A bit haphazard this week, but...

What's happening in the garden

• Sowing seed
• Last of the Snow peas - those are broad beans in front, coming up nicely after total and utter chicken related disaster.  Bamboo sticks are providing support as they always get blown over if I just use string.

• Planting - 8 leek seedlings from the Organic Seedling lady at Hornsby Markets
• Harvesting - Dug over last years sweet potato bed and got 70g carrots, 375g sweet potatoes - both totally unexpected :). Also, 1 lemon, 1 spring onion, 5 pak choy, 9 Tatsoi and 240g turnips.

• Lettuce bed starting to look a bit gappy, but some good stuff coming on quickly

• Egg total : 20

What I've been doing

• Planning for The Future
• Weekly menu plan
• Budget - sort out paying appalling rates bill 
• Researching turning raised vege beds into wicking beds to save water, and stop them going bone dry on days when its 35+ and a 60kmph westerly
• Working for the Future
•  Cooking extra loaves to stock up the freezer (and then giving them all away :))

Fun Stuff

• Building Community 

• Care package for Mumndad
• bread, yoghurt, soap, vegies
• Care package for ill friend with ill baby
• bread, vegies, dinner (spag bol), eggs
• Generally interfering in Other People's Lives and Dispensing Sage Advice - all with the best of intentions :)
• Learn a new Skill
• New skills on the list are spinning and bee-keeping. However, am very wary of taking on too much so for the moment will stick with re-hashing rarely used skills
• Grow seedlings without murdering them due to neglect
• Be nice to other drivers on the motorway

Becoming less porky

• For a starting point, at the beginning of this year I weighed around 82 kgs
• Present weight 77.3 kgs

Week Summary

• First week back at school for the screamies - getting back into the routine and Not Being Late (ahem), and planning like a military invasion to get both to school with correct equipment on right day
• Post birthday party clean, tidy and Make Good Use of left over birthday cake
• Load of wood procured - last for year hopefully
• Taking steps to slow down and look after mental health OR floating around garden with cup of tea for at least half an hour a day
• Fifteen thousand appointments

:)