I was up at 4AM on Tuesday. I had a LOT of work to get done before I left to go play at 8AM. I got my post up and then went out and processed the stock to package it for the freezer. This all the waste. I wish I had pigs, they were the only ones who would eat it.
Once it was strained, I put it into quart containers for the freezer. I got 10¾ quarts. Then I started the process of cleaning up the awful mess tallow makes. That took quite a while.
The waste has nothing left in it even though it looks edible. I’ve tried to use it for something, but it just tastes nasty. Hence pig food, if I had pigs.
Now that the roaster was out of the porch, I could put all the seedlings back where they belonged. Then I watered them well. So we have the dining room table and couch back, until next weekend. I plan to do the last batch of stock then.
I finished washing and drying the laundry, but didn’t have time to fold it. I got the kitchen mostly cleaned up. Then I got ready and left. We got back at 12:30PM.
My general helper had done an errand for me, cut more crabgrass for Larry and had just started cleaning out the cold frames. I got changed and came out to help her get the covers out of the garden shed. Then we figured out which ones went where and were done.
I checked to see if I had any amendment for the Big garden but it was all gone. So we just cleaned out around the rhubarb and comfrey and mulched the corner.
Then we started cleaning out the rest of the garden.
She moved over to the garlic, and pulled up the flag markers. Only 1 garlic hadn’t come up. Then she cleaned all the debris out from them. I kept working on the main garden and got nearly ½ of it done.
My legs started to cramp so I stood and pulled up all the kale that had died. I found 5 that were still alive. The deer hadn’t killed them. My helper had moved to the south end of the garden and she got another section done.
My son found that 1 of the bags of wood is nearly a truckload. There’s a lot of kindling in the bottom of the bag. I moved the truck up to the shed and he will unload it on Wednesday.
It was such a gorgeous day to be outside. We got such a lot done. On Wednesday I hope to finish the cleaning out of the Big garden, and if I have any energy left, I might clean out a flowerbed as a reward. Or maybe I’ll plant pansies…