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yes, it is going to be very cold, cold enough to freeze your berries off if you are going to run around without enough clothes on... (if you have berries :) )

half a peanut butter sandwich and some prunes and handful of peanuts and another of almonds. glass of milk. breakfast will be here soon enough... :)

first sort is done. :) that means all the clunkers are picked out and in the bags with the pods that will get buried in the spring. it also means that any odd beans or interesting beans that i'm interested in possibly growing again are picked out and in containers that are marked for...

serenity now!

for rice you might look into upland (rice that can grow with less water) types.

i did all the dishes three times yesterday... i'd left them go from the day before and then Mom made chocolate pies and then later again. i had to check out the dark chocolate to make sure it was ok before Mom used it in the pies. good thing i did as we had one old bar (they were all...

i got a minor update done to the website and am working on a project that will make that process easier on me in the future. chipping away and glad it is looking like i'll have it done sooner rather than later. keeping up progress on the bean sorting too. maybe another few days to go yet...

we're heading into a stormy night and a half but we'll probably be ok. :) leaving the heat up a bit higher tonight as the last time we lost power we'd turned the heat down more and it wasn't fun at all for Mom that morning when it was cold in here and we were trying to warm the entire house...

weather wuss is a great name for a weather station. :)

made some good progress on bean sorting this evening so that is nice. :)

shovelled a bit of snow today but really it was mainly that i wanted to get some packed down snow scraped off the upper part of the driveway so that it wouldn't be turned into ice if it was going to be driven on repeatedly. i'm sure we'll get more snow this week. the wind was up but it wasn't...

i'd post a meme about procrastination but i'm not likely to get around to it...

i like tedious and tactile - pretty much anything that most people would consider OCD would be something i probably enjoy. i've already done a lot of the initial sorting so what comes next is more like cleaning up what i missed from before and combining beans that are likely one variety into...

yes, nothing worries me other than something like crazy people coming after us for some reason. otherwise we're ok and could go a month off food on hand - yes, we'd miss fresh citrus, onions and some other things but we'd manage. we have enough canned items to get us through plus what is in...

the beans are shelled and now it is down to sorting. while it wasn't a large harvest (for many reasons including many that are also my own fault) i did get enough of the beans i was most interested in and also some new ones to work with (like, yes, i do need more projects after all :) ) so on...