Sunday stroll

in which our plucky heroine notes the ups and downs...

Yesterday I topped 10,000 steps, walking in circles around various blocks in my neighborhood. It is so very weird to choose movement without any destination, I can remember only a few times since childhood that I was not both enjoying the walk or ride, and also intending to complete an errand at the same time.

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beauty in the time of isolation:

not sure what this pretty thing is, I would hazard a guess dwarf lilac, but it is way too early for that, since the one in my yard is just leafed out, but only buds for the future flowers, and this has no leaves at all...

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Plan of the day somewhat derailed:

start drawing/writing a tablet manual for Mom - tablet needs to recharge before I can start remembering how to use it... put this project on temporary hold, move on to next drawing project for Michele, medieval dancing rats and crows


plant peas outdoors- need to rearrange the backyard, will wait until not in direct sunshine later today

mod Ikea cart to hold printer (and also act as an ironing board) - gosh, it takes a long time to hand saw through 2 x 4's and super annoying to find that the first one is full of insect tunnels...ew! Not going to bring that indoors. Switch to plan B and figure out another way to support the upper surface

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on further thought and searching online, found a source for seeds suitable to grow microgreens that extra plus, wasn't Amazon, but a reputable venerable New England vendor I remember from my youth

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I am already doing this as standard operating procedure, but if you happen to have a bunch of green onions...

Allium self-sufficiency re green onions : green onions are a doddle to re-grow, I do it all the time. If you have a bunch of green onions with little rooty bits on the end, cut off the white rooty end about an inch and a half to two inches. These can be planted in dirt in a pot, or planter right away without further need of processing or starting. What I do is use a stick or large sharpie etc and make a vertical hole a little less deep than the cut off pieces, gently put them in the hole and firm around them, and water. in a few days at most you will likely see the green end elongating and starting to grow. From then on, they will continue to make green onion for you to use. Just snip off a few spears from each one as needed, always leaving at least one or more of the spear-leaves on each one. This works so well that I normally only ever purchase green onions a few times a year to restart the process.

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March SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	candied pomelo peel	back corner fence	yard waste bin
2	blood orange marmalade	pantry reorganised	recycle bin
3	cara cara marmalade	corned beef in freezer	-
4	three drawings	repair dainty bag	-
5	new ricebag cases	fruit tree pruning	x
6	x	x	x
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - my very incremental ongoing decisions of planting food and herb plants here at Acorn Cottage... I pretty much suck as a gardener, and it isn't anywhere near my favored activity, but here is a list of the things I have planted or encouraged to grow here, which mostly do their own thing with limited effort and input on my part: Italian prune plum thicket, funky apple tree, persimmon tree, quince tree, walking onions, green onions, rosemary, sage, thyme, salad burnet, chickweed, lovage, feral grapevine, feral violets, rhubarb, figs, blueberry, and black elder. Certainly not the wide range that a true gardener would have, and some of these plants are more productive than others, but I have dried fruit in the pantry, jars of sweetness on the shelves, and the ability to season cooked food, as well as add very small amounts of nutritious greenstuff.