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| Rubber made conversion into Worm Farm. |
- Twiddle our thumbs for seed catalogues (I call them seed porn).-- I heard Dianne got this year's Gurney's yesterday. Now, what shall I grow this year? I dreamed of seed saving, but there are just too many juicy varieties to repeat.
- Be in awe at the lettuce still straggling out under Indiana pseudo-winter. Mine is popping out of my pallet garden. Dianne's is in a window bed.
- Craigslist for a new kitchen compost caddy that is cleanable, handled, air-filtered?, and 'pretty' for the red kitchen I have. Right now, we've lost our old one and have used various recycling containers, including the old pretzel stick container.
- Discuss the problems of not eating local, but guiltily shovel in chocolate and even melons from ... Another meal interupted... Brrrriinnnnggg (Telephone noise)
- Take a phone call from a Craigslister, secure a pound of redworms for a great price, negotiate a meeting space, google how to turn an extra one of my rubbermaid tubs into a composting bin for the basement steps and schlep down to the local resale shop for a plant stand and tub to go underneath. Fancy-pants composting caddy problem resolved. Voila. Did I mention I have to do a honey do for my honey as an in-kind trade for make my rub-a-dub-tub into a worm-eating home?
- Feed the chickens and collect the eggs. Up the protein. It's winter and they are scroogy about egg laying.
- Defrost the freezer if, as mine is, over-taken by ice. Good thing my deep freeze is in the unfinished basement where the water seeps down into the sump pump drain. Too bad I need to use a bunch of pesto tonight. My kids won't be crying though. Layla used up our bounty of Basil and we have enjoyed it in Soynoodle Pumpkin Soup, "Dad" Pizza and in Rustic Butter Bean Dip. See recipes in post, shortly after I return from the resale shop.
- Come back to my computer and start checking out Garden's Alive for good fun ways to make my produce grow better this year. I heard spraying squash with fish poop water is great for getting rid of squash beetles while also fertilizing.
- Replace the bulbs in my seed starting lamp and begin some winter lettuce or herbs in doors.
- Nibble the feathery rosemary and thyme that is struggling inside the warm heat of my home. Stay true, little herb. Stay true!
