...with the bedrooom finished...the Man has started refinishing the chest of drawers...Our Airman had two identical ones in his bedroom...they had belonged to the Man and his brother originally...and
we painted one of them white for the yellow room and put the little purple flower knobs on it...it's so cute...
...this one will go in our walk-in closet and it'll be black with glass knobs...he's just getting started with wood filler and sanding...kitten had done a number of scratches on the bottom drawer of this one...
...we got a tremendous amount of rain this week...
...and since it's the first of the month...I did all of those little chores...cleaned the Berkey and the dishwasher...how often do y'all clean your dishwasher grates and filters...I think I may need to do it more often than once a month...it was pretty gunky...
...we had a purple onion that was on it's last legs...so I cut it up and froze it...not sure why purple onions are called red onions...haha...
...I trimmed the outer leaves of the Napa cabbage and made a big batch of the Forks over Knives salad...I did it in the food processor this time and it was so much quicker and I like the shredded texture better too...
...we took down the Halloween decorations...
...and rolled the dangling lights back up in the bubble wrap...
...and carted everything back up to the attic...I think I may go into the attic more than your average person...haha...
...we did the weekly shop...
...Aldi had baby cukes so I got a bag of those...and we went to the health food store specifically to get Miyokos and they only had the block no tubs...arghhh....
...I made a double batch of Toby's dip...
...well...of course I did...
...I checked on the winter greens...there are some weeds in there...but the little greens are still pretty tiny...so I'm going to wait a bit to pull them up...
...and it was finally time to pull up the cowpeas...they are pretty much done and I'm going to go ahead and pick the remaining green beans/peas and we'll see if they dry up normally or not...
...first I took the strings down...and just sort of laid the vines on the ground...picking all the peas as I went...
...the vines were pretty massive...
...and so were these fat still green peas...
...all disconnected from the fence...it'll be funny to see the bare fence again after so long...
...and like the vines the roots were pretty huge as well...
...pulled up all the plants...
...and carted them to the curb for city pickup later this week...
...and then I raked up all the leaves and debris and added it to the pile...
...then it was time to plant the second pot of baby lettuce plants...
...the existing square feet of lettuce...already providing us with a couple of salads a day...
...the Italian pepper plant is still thriving...
...and so is the trimmed Napa cabbage...
...so I cleared a couple of square feet of garden to plant the new plants...one right beside the existing lettuce bed...
...and one beside the Napa cabbage...
...but I didn't need the second one...as I got all of the little plants tucked into the one beside the existing lettuce bed...so I'll plant some other winter 'crop' there...
...these are all the green cowpeas...more than I thought...
...I took down Mom's hanging flower basket...I'll take better care of it in the garage this winter and we'll see if it all comes back again next year...
...and here's the pile of cowpeas by the curb...we probably won't grow cowpeas again though...it was a fun 'experiment'...and after stringing them to the fence they required nothing but water...I'm looking forward to seeing how many peas we end up with from that row of peas too...
...oh...I also found a few more okra when I was pulling up the cowpeas...
~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!
