I thought about titling this “VD Day” for reasons explained below, but as K pointed out, my mom reads this blog. More to the point, as I noted, my mom has a dirty mind – which is where most of her children got our sense of humor, so she would absolutely get it. Anyway, I took today off work, because a) I recently had a birthday and wanted a three day weekend, and b) there were a number of little things around the house that needed doing. In rough chronological order, I
- finished up the door that I installed in August (September?). There wasn’t much left, I just needed to bore out the hole for the doorbell without tearing up the doorbell wires, with a detour into making the stupid doorbell work again. I got that finished and put up all of the old screen door (in case we reinstall it) then piled up all the old door frame, etc. VD: Victory over the Door!
- built a new, larger, compost area. We used to have a reasonable sized plastic compost bin, but that has proved difficult to use (hard to turn the pile) and too small. The new one is much simpler, just a couple of stakes holding some 4 foot tall hardware cloth in place, but it’s much larger and should be easier to access.
- cleaned out the garden for the end of summer. Yeah, yeah, it’s the middle of the fall, but the plants were still producing. It was good that I had put the compost area together, because I definitely needed the space. I felt a little bad about pulling up the peppers and tomatoes which still had flowers on them, but since we don’t have the sun or the warm days left to ripen anything, it was probably for the best. The amazing thing was how much produce was still out there: a couple of small eggplants, some peppers, okra, a number of green onions, and a ton of tomatoes.
- started preserving what came out of the garden. Some of it went into tonight’s dinner: Orzo with Veggies. There were enough ripe tomatoes left to turn into roasted tomato sauce (roast tomatoes, garlic, italian seasoning, balsamic vinegar and olive oil for an hour, then puree and can). I need to get some quart-sized jars tomorrow so that I can pickle all of the green tomatoes… unless someone someone has another good use for 2+ kg of green tomatoes.
Update: I shouldn’t forget, I also
- cleaned, chopped and froze all of the green onions; and
- updated the “title font” on my blog from “renaisannce” to “english,” as well as updated TWRC‘s events