Small garden plan:
https://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com/garden-plans/1720120
On Thursday, I cleaned up the kitchen and got chores done, including keeping the fire going in the office. It was VERY windy and cold.
New Herb Garden plan:
https://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com/garden-plans/1752987
Then I sat down and updated the 2023 Small garden plan and created this year’s edition. Next was the New Herb garden for last year and then this year’s plan. I finished around noontime.
Mostly clear and sunny, but that wind!
L – r: magnolia, crabapple, McIntosh trees
Everything is on hold in this cold.
First Fence garden: wishing and hoping…
These fence gardens haven’t been touched since 2019. I’m hoping to get to them this spring before we start the vegetable gardens.
The chicken stock was done and needed to cool down. It was a perfect day for that!
But before I could shut the door and open the windows on the back porch, I had to move all the seedlings out. So the dining room window temporarily filled up.
Once I had that done I sat down for a few hours for a change. I had an event in the evening.
I prepared asparagus for our supper. I prefer mine steamed, my brother likes his grilled. Then I heated up the leftover chicken dinner and ate early at 5PM. I was picked up at 5:45PM.
It was an interesting lecture on the 10 children that were indentured to families from 1740’s to the 1840’s in Hatfield. Eight of the children came from the almshouse on the Boston Common. And only 2 of them left a trace after arriving in Hatfield.
One was Thomas Banks. He was a “character” and was mentioned in the 1910 History of Hatfield and again in a later history. His nephew Nathaniel eventually became Governor of Massachusetts, elevating the family to the level of those who had held the indenture contracts in Hatfield. These were mostly the wealthy or politically important.
Thomas eventually became a landowner in the poorest section of town but had not enough wealth to be able to vote.
We were home again by 7:30PM, both ready to stay in our warm houses for the night.
On Friday I have exercise class, stay for the Senior lunch and then watch a TED talk on Laughter. My general helper will be here at 8AM and we will be packaging up the bone stock for the freezer before I leave for class. She will do odd jobs while I am gone.
Wow... Your chicken stock is finally ready, very enticing. It must be very tasty
How does the chicken stock taste?
Nice right?
I've not tasted it! It just got packaged up and frozen. But past batches have tasted just fine.
This is really amazing
Wow this is really nice
Thanks!
It's still cold and windy? Can't you plant when the weather is like this?
The chicken stock would make very tasty meals I'm sure.
I love the way life eventually turned around for Thomas.
It’s well below freezing and the ground is frozen.
The chicken stock is really sizzling, it's so concentrated with all those ingredients and I don't need to ask how it tastes, excellent 🤗
Yes, that’s really the point, to make a nutritionally concentrated food that is pretty versatile.
It is actually great to that finally today you have been able to clear the land