Positives for February
I got a secondhand spiralizer, and it is SO MUCH FUN to play with. Zucchinis become zoodles! Sweet potatoes become sweet patoodles! And it's brilliant for slicing (and coring!) apples and pears for the dehydrator. Five dollars at a charity shop has proven to be win-win-win-win.
Taking a few days off work to make for a five-day weekend has been glorious. Lazy and productive, relaxing and invigorating, fun and busy, all at the same time. It's my favourite time of year, when the garden is in full glut: too many zucchini and beans and tomatoes and apples, just enough corn on the cob, the first of the pears and late-variety peaches, and a growing weightiness to the honey supers on the beehives. Putting an entire cattlebeast -- 200+kgs of beef -- into the freezer this week just adds to the comforting sensation of long-term food security.
Home-brewed raspberry-wheat beer is also a win. Light, crisp, zingy, fizzy, aromatic, and barely alcoholic. It's perfect, especially on these hot summer days when Dearly Beloved is harvesting her hops, I'm harvesting and french-slicing and blanching and freezing beans, and the dogs are lying on the cool tile in front of the fan, chomping on frozen lamb bones.
I'm not going to mention the negatives that rammed themselves into my life this month -- despite the plethora of them -- because I'm determined to focus on the positive this year.
Maybe next year will be 'write reviews for the books I read' year?
Taking a few days off work to make for a five-day weekend has been glorious. Lazy and productive, relaxing and invigorating, fun and busy, all at the same time. It's my favourite time of year, when the garden is in full glut: too many zucchini and beans and tomatoes and apples, just enough corn on the cob, the first of the pears and late-variety peaches, and a growing weightiness to the honey supers on the beehives. Putting an entire cattlebeast -- 200+kgs of beef -- into the freezer this week just adds to the comforting sensation of long-term food security.
Home-brewed raspberry-wheat beer is also a win. Light, crisp, zingy, fizzy, aromatic, and barely alcoholic. It's perfect, especially on these hot summer days when Dearly Beloved is harvesting her hops, I'm harvesting and french-slicing and blanching and freezing beans, and the dogs are lying on the cool tile in front of the fan, chomping on frozen lamb bones.
I'm not going to mention the negatives that rammed themselves into my life this month -- despite the plethora of them -- because I'm determined to focus on the positive this year.
Maybe next year will be 'write reviews for the books I read' year?