Man!
I didn’t think I would get everything done
before midnight.
But I surprised myself and had everything done
– including ALL the dirty dishes – BEFORE 9 p.m. :-D
Of course, I am getting up earlier since Bob’s
spirit left Earth, and that helps: it is strange – getting up before dawn, but
it helps me accomplish stuff that needs to get done before the day ends.
And when the Shabbat Rest weekend rolls
around … I WANT things done Friday’s before the sun goes down, so I can kick
back and relax until Sunday evening (I am a Christian Jew, so I combine the
Jewish Sabbath & the Christian Sunday rest days: a 3-day weekend works great
for me) ;-)
Even though we have had rain the past few
days, my onion beds always seem dried out at the topsoil, so I always water
those 3 beds no matter what to keep the onions happy and plumping. Onion
roots are shallow, so they almost always need daily watering – they get watered
even if nothing else does.
The rain barrels were filled to the top: I did
the happy dance; LOL
After I watered the onion beds, I sprayed the
cabbages, collards, and kale with BT. Cabbage worms decimated my cabbages bed
last year; and I want to get a handle on the situation this year before it gets
out of hand. While I was watering the onions, I noticed the Katrina Cabbages in
the Redwing Onion Bed, had doubled in head size during this rainy week:
I noted that Collard plant next to the
cabbages had some leaves that can be pulled too … but that will have to wait: I
have bread to bake and housework that needs tended to today, so I don’t have
time to mess with the Collards – maybe Monday; I am not going to interrupt
my 3-day weekend to get at it tomorrow. They will hold until Monday. I need
the whole weekend to unwind from the stressful past 6 days.
Checking all the beds for moisture levels, I
gleaned all the mature Miner’s Lettuce leaves, some fat and juicy Purslane
leaves, and 4 Mignon Baby Carrots for a Supper Salad tonight:
Moving down the line, I grabbed 2 little
YELLOW & GREEN Zucchinis’ in passing – these will go into the salad too for
crunch and color effect. I love zucchini, and will eat it any way it is served:
fried, baked, souped, raw, shredded in salads: and the health benefits are
pretty awesome too! Zucchini improves digestion, slows down aging (I’m game
for that!), lowers blood sugar levels, keeps your heart healthy, improves
eye health (another huge plus in my book), boosts energy levels, helpful
for weight loss (thank You, Yeshua!), keeps hormones balanced (are
YOU loving this veggie yet?), helps guard against inflammation (YES!). Read
MORE about this amazing vegetable at this link: (https://foodrevolution.org/blog/zucchini-benefits/) …
And I was tickled pink to see that I have
beans on ALL my bush bean plants :-D
Purple ROMANO PURPIANT Bush Bean.
Green NICKEL Bush Bean. A baby French-fillet bean.
Yellow SOLEIL French-fillet wax Bush Bean.
Working my way to the back-end of my garden,
I pulled 2 of the biggest little Tom Thumb Lettuces in the Shallot container;
and all of the red Mascara lettuces in the Tomato bed; to add to the greens I
pulled earlier. The lettuces have pretty much played themselves out, and will
be reseeded:
I noticed that the pretty blossoms on my Patio
Baby Eggplant plant are gone – probably beat off by the rainfall we have had
– but I still do not see even the start of a fruit anywhere on the plant.
It is disappointing …
I pinched a few Nasturtium leaves for a taste
of zip in my Supper Salad, and picked a few perky Nasturtium & Viola flowers
too, while I deadheaded the spent ones, and pinched off the seed pods; these flowers
are starting to go to seed, so if I want them to continue flowering through the
Summer months, I need to start pinching off their seed heads/pods:
And I got sidetracked by the grass sprouting among viola's blooming in the beach rock back yard - so I walked around plucking the grass blades out here and there, before heading back to my veggie garden area.
The Jack-Be-Little pumpkins are growing like
gangbusters! The tiny pumpkins of 6 days ago have tripled in size, and I
counted 15 showing and growing. And look at those HUGE blossoms - wowzers!
The veggie garden tended to, I walked around
to the front of the house, curbside, and deadheaded the spent Shasta daisies to
keep the daisy plant looking fresh and pumping out new blossoms (they will
bloom right up to Fall if deadheaded) – putting those cuttings into the
corn beds for mulch.
Outside chores done, I gathered my veggie
gleanings and walked around to the carport where the W-H-Y Trap was doing its
job …
Satisfied that everything outside was humming
along as expected, putting on a colorful show ...
.... and providing substance on
schedule; I went inside to start cleaning my gleaned greens, and making
preparations to get my bread baking underway.
I washed, drained, and wrapped the gleaned
salad greens in a bath towel and stored it in the ‘fridge to wick the wet off
the leaves while I started my bread – since this was the Sabbath day, I made
Challah (http://jeastofeden.blogspot.com/2018/07/low-cholesterol-challah-shabbat-bread.html).
While the bread was doing it’s first rise, I
unwrapped the greens and went outside to pull 1 red & 1 white onion; the
red would go into the salad, & the white would go into the tuna spread I
was hungering for ;-)
I swept the floor, and did my exercises, during
the bread’s second rising.
Around 5 p.m., I had a very simplistic Supper
while my bread baked:
A very simple Supper tonight because my day was super busy: I could not have eaten anything bigger or heavier on the stomach - I was so beat. Tuna Sandwich with some of the green salad added.
Satiated with my simple meal, I turned my
baked bread out onto a cooling rack, brushed it with butter-flavored Crisco to keep
the crust soft, and covered it with a kitchen towel while it cooled.
Then I washed my hair (I want to look my
best for visiting Angels – and for Yeshua & Bob looking down on me),
changed into some comfy clothes, poured a glass of wine (my tail was dragging at this point); and called it a day.
A satisfying day, in which everything that needed to get done, GOT done.
L’Chiam (to life!)!
I love you, Babe.
Always.
OX
P.S. Babe: Everyone walking by today commented on your boxes that you designed and built for me - you did good. As always. ~kiss
