I bet it's mostly science and hard work but the combination often looks like magic from the outside! Just like you losing weight "spontaneously" is going to look like magic to anyone who doesn't know how hard you're working
Love this! It kind of is magical science like alchemy or something when we do find things that help to lose weight without it seeming like Sisyphus and his trusty boulder!
Oh God, not another thing! Haven't we suffered enough?
Well done on the better-fitting clothes. You are doing swell, as they say in your country.
Thanks Em! In the news they are saying that Russia's war with Ukraine is causing fertilizer shortages here. As someone whose family had a subsistence farm and worked some pretty rocky, awful soil (but did ok at turning it around), I wish farmers would go back to enriching the soil the old fashioned way - by plowing cover crops in instead of using commercial fertilizers.
Also here there is the added bonus of fast rising inflation making groceries noticeably more expensive than last year. That is why I am putting in a garden first thing.
I hope you don't have these problems where you are!!! If things do get like that where you are, take a few bags of garden soil, lay each bag on its side and poke holes in it for drainage, roll the bag over and cut the other side off the bag, and grow veggies directly out of the bag. If it gets too cold out, put a clear plastic bin over the bag to protect the veggies. Insta-garden!
So tired & sore so that you "took the morning off" & went shopping
I find shopping really exhausting. I think stocking up on things like honey is a good idea. Honey lasts forever & it's getting very expensive.
Your garden must really be taking shape.
Ha! I actually was a little tired from shopping as I bought these huge pots at the store, and that combined with the huge toilet paper and paper towel bags meant that I had to stuff the car like I was playing 3D Tetris! I am researching how to get bees for K's beehive, but we also need to put in a lot of flowers that all bloom at different times of year first. So just getting a little emergency honey first! But I do plan to have some bulk dried beans and grains on hand just in case, too. I don't like the rising inflation and just want to hedge our bets. I figure if the sky is falling, we'll be prepared, and if not, we will have cut our grocery expenses a lot.
Yesterday zipped by so quickly. In the morning the electricity was out (turns out a squirrel getting in the equipment caused it) and so I went to a cafe and recharged my phone and computer. Then I ordered tea camellias for making black and green tea. Did I mention there is a tea plantation here I want to visit to learn how to grow my tea plants? Can't wait to try this! Also mowed half the lawn (much easier this time) and got the potatoes in. Then poof, the day was done. Talked to J and K who were going to a movie and dinner, which is nice. K usually has so much homework, so it's good to see them out doing nice things.
My garden is coming along well, but I mostly have things in pots in the screen house right now. The huge cloth raised beds need to be filled next, and I have to hurry because my root stock strawberries are already here, plus I need to put the yam slips in soon. So today is a tromping through the woods day gathering more rotted wood for the bottom of the raised beds. Lumi really likes following me though the woods, so this will be fun. Happy morning!