Busy, Not Busy Weekend Ahead

[unicornduke]

 Four day weekend, took today off work. I took the 3 gallons of jalapenos I harvested yesterday and donated them to the food bank (oh my god the jalapenos have gone nuts, I've frozen and eaten so many and they won't stop coming). (side note: I made mac and cheese, added five jalapenos and now it tastes just like jalapeno nacho cheese. incredible) I've got paprika peppers drying in the oven.

 I have no set plans yet for the rest of the weekend (other than farmers market) but depending on how I'm feeling I may do the following:

bake cookies
make ice cream
play video games
dry more peppers
order arepas
shell the rest of the garbanzo beans
clean and reorganize my room
process the rest of the flax

I dunno, may just sit around and do nothing too

Comments

[graydon]

A restful nothing is an entirely sound choice!

I quite admire how your list goes from "cookies" to "first, dig a specialised water feature..."

(I might have to give making arepas a try.)

[unicornduke]

well actually.....haha

I suspect by the end of the 4 day weekend, I'll want to move around a bunch and cleaning my room seems like a good enough amount of stuff to do to fill that. I recently sold my horse saddles on craigslist so that freed up main room space. I'm going to dig my half filled shelf out of the closet, reorganize that stack since something have been pulled out of there and do some more shifting things around. should be a short enough project to complete in 2-3 hours.

my fiber has been spreading slowly as I've been spinning more than crocheting or knitting. Stalled out on a crocheted sweater so my yarn stash has been increasing rapidly as my usage has come to a halt. The fiber is bulkier but it's on a shelf that isn't going to hold yarn well since it's narrow. So things to move around, probably put some things in bins. who knows, maybe I won't do anything although that hasn't happened today.

[graydon]

I was (in case it isn't entirely obvious) thinking of retting flax from stems with the "water feature" remark.

Sounds like a useful mass of organisation, and I can't imagine that it's easy to be knitting warm things in August.

[unicornduke]

ahh, that makes sense. Right now, I'm just rippling to remove seeds. Due to many things , the flax processing further than that is on hold. Between B and I, we've got a big chunk of flax retted from last year. This year's batch of flax was a seed grow out since the seed degrades relatively quickly year to year due to oil content. I'll just stick the cleaned stems at my parents until a time when we can get around to retting it.

For further processing, B's dad is working on a break but it's taking a while because he's old and there's a pandemic and all that jazz. That plus B is living in her sister's house when she visits where last year she lived in a yurt on the farm property (it burned down towards the end of last year). Plus pandemic stuff means I'm not visiting their farm much.

Many things. Many things.

I'm pleased with my cleaning progress and got a partial shelf opened up for sweaters and towels in a place where I will actually use it. I've spent all summer sitting in front of my little AC unit, where it isn't the worst to knit or crochet so I have been making progress

[graydon]

That is certainly a lot of stuff!

Ever run into the idea that flax was grown mostly as a saponifier for wool processing? (I am NOT suggesting you try it; things that are noted as smelling real bad in old sources are ... not the best plan.)

It's probably going to be the kind of September where I have the heat and the air conditioning on, here. (Just not at the same time!) Hope you get a more orderly transition to coolth.

Staying put in a pandemic is totally the thing to do, yeah. I wish more people had this basic element of sense!