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May 23, 2022

No.648: Homemaking Notes on a Monday // Vol.27

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The weather outside is //

As I look outside my window // Seedlings are emerging from the ground and the first fruits on the trees are growing!  I get so excited seeing what’s new when I walk the garden each morning.

As I look around the house // I’m feeling the pull to do some sort of summer decluttering challenge, maybe something similar to the 30 day challenge I did last fall?  I don’t feel like we have brought a ton of things into the house so far this year, but I can still see plenty that can go.

Focusing // on frugality in a big way this summer.  Like everybody else, inflation is kicking our bums and I can feel my stress starting to rise.  We have had such an expensive spring with the farm and I’m ready to just stop.spending.money, ha!  I foresee lots of homemade items being made, free local activities planned and the thermostat put up a notch or two.

On this week’s to-do list //
– get the last remaining seeds in the ground
– mail back standardized testing
– bake pretzel bites with sourdough discard
– make chicken broth for the freezer
– finish the Spiderman cross-stitch
– make final preparations for broiler processing
– start kombucha process

Considering // shaking up my reading by bringing back the “TBR Jar”.  This month, I really focused on my Reading the Alphabet Challenge, but it may be fun to do something different for summer.  We’ll see how I feel once I finish my current stack of books.  (P.S. I have a free printable on my ko-fi site so you can make your own jar too!)

Currently reading // 

  • Fiction: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
  • Nonfiction: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser
  • Religious: The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr. Charles Arminjon (still!  I need to really wrap this up…)

On the menu this week //
Monday: pulled pork sandwiches
Tuesday: grilled chicken salads
Wednesday: one pan skillet lasagna with homemade garlic knots
Thursday: Refrigerator Cleanout Night
Friday: tuna melts

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Comments

  1. Laura M says

    May 23, 2022 at 4:55 pm

    I hope you can achieve a frugal summer 🙂

    • Ashley says

      May 24, 2022 at 3:57 pm

      Thanks, I hope so too!

  2. Shelly+Cunningham says

    May 26, 2022 at 1:43 pm

    I am inspired by your decluttering. Maybe I’ll jump into something like that as well!

    And I hear you about the price of everything. Feeding these three growing boys (men!) is killing us each month at the grocery store! Not to mention gas prices.
    Then last month our water bill spiked over $100 extra and we couldn’t figure out why. We think it was leaking toilets (our gaskets went bad in all three toilets at the same time because we purchased them at the same time!) so Josh bought new gaskets and we’re hoping that solves it!!

    • Ashley says

      June 3, 2022 at 9:11 am

      Oh man, I hope that the gaskets solve the problem! We had a similar water issue at our old house and it was so stressful when the bill came.

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