Wake up, drink tea. Check email.
Take the dog for a 4.5k jog. My neighbors wave at us as they slow down to drive by on the gravel roads. It’s -0.5°C when we leave the house and +0.7°C when we get back.
Change into work clothes.
Put on a load of laundry.
Disinfect kitchen worksurfaces, sinks, and chicken-butchering tools.
Kill, hang, bleed, skin, eviscerate, wash, and chill two chickens.
(Get t! to hang the laundry out on the line while I am elbow deep in chicken guts).
Disinfect kitchen worksurfaces, sinks, and chicken-butchering tools.
Put on a batch of bread dough for tonight’s supper of home-made pizza and a loaf of bread.
Knit a couple of inches of the sock I’m working on.
Bring the laundry in. It’s sleeting out.
Close up the chicken coop for the night.
Mop/disinfect the kitchen floor (post chicken-butchering) while t! takes the dog out for his evening walk.
Make and eat pizza for supper. Yum. Put bread in for second rise.
Watch an episode of something on DVD (we don’t have TV reception or cable) while the bread bakes.
Post to blog.
Fall exhausted into bed.
Tomorrow: Farmer’s market for groceries, possibly flea market for tools & other things. Chores. Cleaning out and re-organizing the garage in preparation for stacking our winter firewood in it.
out here 
Leave a Reply