Muggy thursday

OOOh it was muggy today, all hot and cloudy and ick!
earnt - zero, spent - zero :)

Look what I found in the field today! Honestly, who loses a spoon in a field?? And its good metal so yes, I am going to wash it up!!! Found it whilst hand drilling 12 rows of parsnips with this...

Ah the hand drill. My amish cousins would be happy with this! I believe it was cobbled together by my grandad! But it does its job and I know how to use it for different sozed seed. That was one thing dad did teach me! We also drilled 28 rows of carrots, but we used the tractor for that!
This morning DS handed me his mending as he went off to school. Mum, can you fix these please.
Doggy...

We think he's had doggy since he was about a year old! And his arm was in need of some stitches! And his neck too. All done now, and doggy looks happy about it!
The school trousers, when we went to the city we bought some new hooks and bars..

As the ones on his best trousers had given up.

Cheaper than a new pair of trousers!!

Ah a classic fairy mend!! He'd managed to rip the fabric where the old hook was so its had a little patch too! I was pleased that he asked for a mend rather than new trousers. He's learning that things aren't throwaway!

Another attempt at spirals as I was cooking wedges anyway. Better deep fried! Then crisped further in the oven :)

Yummy tea with scotch egg :) And DS got his 'scotches'.

Yes, deep fried sausage balls! It won't harm DS as everyone always worries he's anorexic. They haven't seen him eat! That annoys me. He's tall and slim, like DD was at that age. I'd understand if he was a chunky monkey like me, but he's underweight. He eats three meals a day plus snacks. He eats veg alot. Oh well, can't get anything right being a mum!!

Finished another bottle of milk so I've used my super cheap salad leaves in this one :0 see how they get on.

And started some rolls at teatime as we're out of bread! Have to knead before beddybyes :)
BBS x

Seeds, pods, pennies and pie

Earnt - £7.00 plus a cheque of £13.50, spent - zero:)
Yay, some money in the food jar!!
Today was busy busy!!
Time for some more brassica's!

This is my very messy greenhouse workbench! And a seed tray (it makes modules) I think I seeded 4 today, each seed dropped individually into the little holes!!

And these are the trays I took out of the greenhouse to harden off :) Lettuces and cabbagey things! I forgot to put labels on them...so its potluck! And a tray of flowers :)

The little salad pots are ready to eat, well the first one is! I think I'll save them for next week. I'll have to do another mealplan as my four weeks finishes on friday!

I tidied up another piece of garden. I have random bits of garden all over the place. Mainly where things won't get run over! This is perpetual spinach and wildflower garden! With added chives :)

And the ceramic sink that was too huge for my tiny kitchen!! Looks better anyway, and a little bit of beauty goes a long way!

Filled 84 little pots with soil ready for tomorrow. Its time for some summer squash :)

Used the empty soil bag, as its black inside, to heat the soil up a bit :) Waste not want not!!
Tea tonight was lasagne with the last bolognaise sauce I froze...

(Don't ask the date on the lasagne sheets!!)
With, and this was mommys fault, spirals!!

I forgot I got this doohickey when I bought my mandolin!

Hahahha groovy potato!!

Ex chinese tray!! Brushed with oil, sprinkled with season all, in the oven the same time as the lasagne!

One potato, two potatoes..three potatoes!!!

The boys loved them, but I'd have liked them deep fried so they went crispier! That will be an experiment for another day!! But they are definitely GROOVY!!

Pods!! OH put me in a couple of cup hooks and hooked them on for me when I was gossiping with mommy:D I can see them from my kitchen window and they make me smile alot!!
And there was rhubarb pie too as the oven was on...but I'll put that on another page as I gotta include the recipe for mommy!!!
My hands now feel like sandpaper :)
Hohum:)
BBS x