Back to Basics Challenge - Week 9

What's happening in the garden

• Planting - zucchini and squash seedlings, tomato and basil seedlings, and two red currant plants
• Harvesting - spuds, broccoli, lettuce, celery, lemon
• Observing, asparagus making an appearance
• rhubarb starting to come up (the white blurry blob is a statue-thing, new camera days away, hurray :))

• Avocado tree on the verge of flowering

• Egg total : 13 - Pecky still broody

What I've been doing

• Planning for The Future
• Weekly menu plan / shopping list
• Detailed plan for care and feeding of overseas visitors

Fun Stuff

• Building Community
• House presently filled with people and laughter and good food

• Learn a new Skill
• Teaching kids to knit (will do a detailed post on it this week)
• Teaching kids how to use French knitter both left and right handed (which made my brain hurt)

Becoming less porky

• Present weight 73.9kgs (top of healthy weight range 67kgs)

Week Summary

• Coping well with guests - having a plan makes it so much less stressful
• School term starting to wind down
• Miss 6 lost a tooth - tooth fairy did right thing :)