It was a cold frosty morning when I pulled the shades up at 7AM on Monday morning. I got busy and got my post up, a load of dishes done, and laundry started. Then I got the call that the solar people were cancelling, lack of techs. Bet there were a few hangovers from the Super Bowl.
I pointed out we had a big storm coming in Tuesday and they would not be able to get on the roof if they had to. But they moved it to Thursday morning anyways.
My general helper was coming and no solar freed us up to do errands. My local coop was having a big sale on chicken breasts so I planned to stock up for the year. I ordered 30 breasts, completely forgetting it meant freezing them all… Gotta love brainfog….
These are frankenbird breasts, just ½ of a full breast weighed 1.56 lbs. It’s taken a lot of getting used to, as our heritage birds breasts, both sides, made a lb.
So we got them washed and pulled off any excess fat.
While my helper was washing, I was making vacuum seal bags and labeling them.
We each had a sealer, the white one made for meat. But the black one got the job done. Once they were sealed, I made extra large bags and we put 8 or 10 in each bag and sealed them. This would protect the bags with meat throughout the year. We finished about 2PM after thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting the area and equipment.
The original plan had been to do errands and then make garden plans. So we got started on that. She drew the New Herb and I drew the Big and Small gardens.
Because the New Herb didn’t require the program on the computer, we started that one first. I had marked up the Strictly Medicinal catalog on plants I wanted to grow so we used that to fill in the holes in the beds. We also consulted the starting chart for herbs and the inventory list for herbs.
We’d almost finished when she had to leave at 4PM. She expected school to be cancelled on Tuesday due to the coming storm, so she said she’d come out if she could get here and we could work some more on the plans. So that’s Tuesday, a storm of plowable amounts and garden plans and seed orders.