What This Week Looks Like

in homesteading •  7 years ago  (edited)

This is going to be a crazy week here. Here’s the schedule:

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Sunday:
• Laundry because it’s raining
• Write as many Steemit posts as I can for the week
• Figure out how to convert Steem $$ to US $$
• Plan and cook supper meatloaf and artichokes (another post)
• Call and arrange to pickup piglets on Wednesday
• Water seedlings

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Monday:
• Get a truck load or 2 of mulch hay from across the river (in Africa)
• Put up the fence around the Big garden (supposed to be Sunday but rain…)
• Get ready for seed starting on Tuesday
• Clean winter debris from Big garden and put mulch back around the fenceline
• Remember to open and close the cold frame
• Put up barrier around the pigs area

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Tuesday (have helper friend in AM):
• Seed starting: 192 seedlings, 9 trays
• Finish whatever didn’t get done on Monday
• Lay out the Big garden
• Get pig and chick feed
• Remember to open and close the cold frame
• Finish setting up the pig area and the piggy dripper (to be 80’s Weds. and Thurs.)
• Plan and cook supper
• Feed seedlings

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Wednesday:
• Road trip to get piglets in VT
• Set up brooder
• Chicks ship from Stromberg’s
• Remember to open and close cold frame
• Work in Big garden, planting potatoes
• Pull shades against sun (passive solar heated house, to be 80’s)

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Thursday (have helper friend in AM):
• Make sure thermostat is working in brooder
• Grind chick feed
• Make sure piggy dripper is working (80’s today)
• Finish whatever garden work not done
• Water seedlings
• Plant kale
• Plant mesclun
• Plant beets
• Plant pansies
• Plan and cook supper
• Remember to open and close cold frame
• Feed seedlings
• Pull shades against sun (passive solar heated house, to be 80’s)

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Friday (have helper friend in AM):
• Chicks arrive
• Start moving creeping thyme from New Herb garden to under the trees
• Finish any planting not done during the week
• Start cleaning out flowerbeds
• Remember to open and close cold frame
• Wash all the screens and screen doors for the house

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Saturday (help coming to do windows):
• Wash bedroom, office, and living room windows and put screens in
• Cleanout flowerbeds
• Plan and cook supper
• Water seedlings
• Remember to open and close cold frame

Sunday (help coming to do windows):
• Wash kitchen and dining room windows
• Finish living room windows
• Start bedroom windows
• Remember to open and close cold frame

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Me, the rest of the time….

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That's quite a week you have planned! We usually just wing it. Haha!

We mostly wing it too. But we had to make an appt to pick up the pigs, so their area must be done. Chicks ship on Weds, so their area must be done. I have help scheduled, so I need to know what they will be doing and have it ready.

I really don't like so much at once, but beggers can't be choosers, so we do the best we can when we have help.

So did you figure out how to convert steem to US$? i haven't done it yet and i've been on here for 2 years! I do have a Coinbase account, so I am going to try to sell a wee bit and see how it goes :0)

No, it's been one fiasco after another trying to figure this out. So far, we've opened 2 checking accts, had the debit card cancelled on the 2nd acct before it even reached us, had fraud alerts called on us, and mostly we have no clue what we are doing!

So we are waiting for the new debit card to appear, and we'll try again, probably next week when we aren't so busy...