On Monday morning I was up at 4:30AM and got my post up. Then I cleaned up the kitchen and laid out the equipment for processing peas. I was out in the Small garden to pick peas by 6AM. I’ve already written about what I found.
But I did get quite a few sugar pod peas.
When I realized I wouldn’t have many peas to do, I decided to take a day off and watch movies. I got a shower when I came in and got started on peas.
So I was supervised while I watched a movie and shelled peas. I got them processed and the kitchen cleaned up by 8:30AM. I got 2 pints of sugar pods. I got the laundry started for the week and sat down to watch a movie.
I went to the doctor’s appointment and was home again by 1PM. Back to the movies while I ate lunch.
This is how we watch movies.
At 2PM I heard someone come in and thought it was my brother. But it was Tom with the milk order and a huge box. My general helper and I use large pieces of cardboard boxes that have the heavy glossy paper on the outside when we work in the gardens. Her dad had bought a lawnmower and she sent the big box to me.
The cardboard sheets protect us from wet, hard wood chips, and cold. The pieces can last up to a couple months, depending on how often they are used in wet. I was getting low on them.
The boxes had to be thoroughly inspected. I proceeded to take them apart and cut them into usable pieces.
I got about 10 pieces and that should last me the best part of 2 years.
My brother and I had planned to make a stirfry to use up a couple of the zucchini, a red cabbage, the few peas I had gotten, and other vegetables. I had thawed a ground chicken and we seasoned that with sesame oil, tamari, ginger, onion, garlic, celery salt and pepper. It was really delicious, but a bit hot for an evening at 91F.
On Tuesday morning my brother and I plan to get 4 more of the big windows done and screens in before he goes to work. It’s to be very hot and humid again, so I might just stay in the office and try to finish the bills/budget.