Last week, as I was making an online grocery order, an ad popped up for a 4' x 2' x 1' oval galvanized raised bed. On sale, $30. It came in pieces in a box that was about a cubic foot square, along with a bag of dozens of bolts and wing nuts. The Husband and I put it together in about 30 minutes. Yesterday, I set it on top of a big piece of cardboard, filled it with chopped leaves and store-bought dirt, and planted mustard, collards, and turnip greens in it. As I was about to wash up after the planting, I spied a package of carrot seeds left over from last year, which I sprinkled over the bed for the heck of it. Mother Nature watered it a little bit last night. According to gardening guru Uncle Jack, it's about 2 months late for planting greens. We'll see what happens.
Squirrels will probably plant acorns in it.
Last night, WHILE I WAS COOKING DINNER, the blood blister on my thumb (which I got earlier in the day from peeling wild cherry tree bark) started leaking. I squished out the rest of the blood, put a waterproof band-aid on it, and kept working while trying not to touch he food. Unfortunately, the task at hand was to wrap crescent roll dough around sliced cooked sweet potatoes, hard to do without two thumbs.
The cherry bark shavings are drying on the kitchen table. I'm going to grind half of them into powder and keep the other half intact for brewing tea.
The problem with fooling with new things is that it sends me down multiple rabbit holes before I ever accomplish a thing. This morning, I watched a video on how to make salve (I've already got the base ingredients). When the instructor finished combining everything, he poured the warm mixture into little tins. I've got some little jars, but they're not cute. I added tins to my Hobby Lobby list. Then he put cute little round labels on the tins. I added cute little round labels to my list. Then I started working out a cute little design to go on the cute little labels . . . and I haven't even made the salve, yet.
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