And just like that, four days have elapsed. Sheesh. It doesn't feel like four days since I last posted, more like forty years! In between baking I got a lot done on the homestead, we all did!
The hubs has been milling raw edge lumber out of a massive Bull pine that gave up on life out in our south pasture. The boards that he mills are going to be siding on the new skeet field high and low houses, and I am super excited to see how they turn out!
The hubs and I have also been working in tandem to get the lavender harvest finished, which we finally did, Thursday. I cut the last of the bloomed out lavender, he ran it through the still, and holy fragrant jars of bliss, do we have a lot of hydrosol!
Another thing I have been cutting is bergamot. Each morning I have been snipping the fragrant plant's leaves, washing them, and putting them in the dehydrator for a spell to dry. Thursday's harvest was especially eventful as I got to witness the turkey version of Big Fight At The I Hate You Corral.
It was a quiet and unseasonably cool morning, and I was enjoying my early morning leaf picking solitude when a cacophony of gobbling erupted. There were toms and hens chest bumping and pecking each other, and the event hit it's crescendo with a flock of poults taking to the air and gracefully alighting themselves on the peak of my roof.
It was an interesting pre-breakfast experience!
Yesterday, before I went to the bakery in the early AM hours, I got to meet my new friend Clotilde. She met me in my bathroom sink as I stalked into that particular room to do my morning routine. She definitely achieved bringing me into a more alert status, as the lovely little arachnid is the size of my palm.
Later that day, when I got home from work, I put her in a cup and placed her outside. I am still impressed with how hard she smacked the paper plate that I covered the cup with. Clotilde is such a strong girl! She also now lives in my iris patch.
Over a two day period with a bakery work blast in between, I got a huge to do done. For the last month the entirety of one storage shed was sitting, covered in my carport. I really needed to weed, condense, and purge all of the things and get them organized into our other storage shed, and let's just joyfully say now, THAT CHORE IS DONE!
It is amazing how one can accumulate things over the years, especially if you have offspring. There were intermixed boxes of everything from homeschool curriculum to photos, to old clothes, to holiday decorations and everything in between. It has all been properly sorted and stored now, and I am more than pleased with the pile of trash and donate that I ended up with. I'm also more than a bit tired.
And on that note, I am gonna go take a well-deserved, at least I think so, nap. The next forty-eight hours are going to be a big baking marathon as the next two weeks are the busiest in the park, but as I wrote in a comment earlier, then end is nigh! I am almost done!!
