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The weather outside is //
As I look outside my window // Spring has arrived! I was talking to one of my kids and we both agreed that green is one of our favorite colors. Is there anything more beautiful than new life sprouting everywhere you look? The grass is growing, the leaves on the trees are filling in and the birds are singing louder each morning. Now if we could stop with these sporadic hard frosts, I could really start planting with abandon! Soon…
As I look around the house // Oh homemaking…I’ll come back to you someday soon. In some ways, I miss the days of just puttering around!
Reflecting // on how there are seasons of hustle and seasons of rest. The season we are in right now feels a little intense, but it’s not forever and I know a slower pace is coming…in June. Only 64 days to go, ha! And even though this homesteading gig is never-ending and exhausting, it sure is satisfying. We have accomplished so much this month. (You’ll see the full extent in my post tomorrow.)
On this week’s to-do list //
– finish up Easter basket gifts
– determine what week works best for standardized testing and order
– work on farm marketing
– keep working on the food forest
– start collecting trees/twigs to make wood chips
– edge around the “cottage garden” beds
– decide how I want to grow potatoes (in towers? in the ground? in hay? so many choices…)
Currently reading //
- Fiction: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Nonfiction: Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown and We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter
- Religious: The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr. Charles Arminjon and A Memory for Wonders by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, PCC
- Read Aloud: Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
On the menu this week // Who am I kidding? I’m sure it will be a hodgepodge of breakfast for dinner, random things from the fridge and chicken on the grill. My mantra: it’s only for a season.
“Nature green” is the best indeed 🙂 (and it rhymes lol!)
YES!