8 am
Aftermath
of the BIG STORM. Well, the biggest thing is that I will need to spend time
today undoing everything I did yesterday. As in: take all the plastic that I put
in front of the rabbit cages off, dry it, fold it up and put it away. The empty
cages that I brought inside will stay there, at least until I need to bring the
worms in, then I suppose I’ll put them back out. We put all the deck furniture
away, but that is fine, needed to be done eventually. I moved around a lot of
cinder blocks to anchor the plastic, so those will get put in some neat pile
somewhere. And I took the big wire cage down and put it on the ground where I figured
it was less likely to blow. I can leave it there until I need it again next
spring. Oh, and I’ll need to clean the pellets off the sunroom floor. I very
cleverly decided that I would bring the small plastic bin of feed inside to use
for feeding in case there was torrential rain so I would not have to open the
feed bin and let rain in. but silly me – forgot about whoever lives in here. They
were quite happy to root through the bin and get out the sunflower seeds. And strew
the pellets all around the floor. Well, at least it wasn’t too bad here. A bit
of wind, but not that much. And really only a little rain. It is still overcast
today. I assume the college is open, but I am NOT going in. I will take my
lovely Tuesday and deal with meeting with students tomorrow. I did go in
yesterday morning. Only met with 3, so that is not a very big dent and it will
take up most of tomorrow to meet. Really 15 mins is not enough to go over what
they’ve done and where they should go from here, half an hour each is better. At
least I have 2 sets of pairs. I’ll have to send out a message today to get a
schedule started for tomorrow.
One nice
thing I did yesterday was start the angora for more boucle. This time I am
using Bathsheba’s so it will be a nice soft gray. I think I will still use the
white merino for the core. Another nice thing we did was make a run to the grocery
store after G got home because she really wanted to make cookies and we were
out of butter. It was in the worst of the wind, so it was very exciting. Actually,
once we got out there, it really was not that windy, I think it had been worse
earlier in the day. Anyway, all 3 of us went. It was fun and silly. Well, I should
not be so blithe about the storm, as I think things really are quite bad in NYC
and probably all along the coast. But I still think it was odd of them to close
the college.
Other things
for the day – laundry of course, and dishes of course. Mostly sorting laundry. I’ll
put on some good music or some radio to listen to and just do it. I did make 3
loaves of bread yesterday, and yogurt, though the yogurt did not turn out that
great. I think I may start some more today. And I made a jar of buttermilk that
I will start draining today for qurt. Or
Quark. Or how ever that is spelled. And I just got mightily distracted looking
it up and found that qurt is the dried version and now I am curious about how it is dried. I think it is
also salty. Hmmm. Must try. And I ought to buy some dehydrator pans or
non-stick sheets so I can dehydrate some blueberry leather. Another idea – to make
some blueberry jam with the big bag we have in the freezer. The thing I am most
grateful for re the storm is that we did to lose power to the freezer. Maybe I will
get out some rabbit and think of a nice dish to make for supper. Saute, then
slow simmer, then make a kind of gravy. That would be good. I was inspired to
cook dried black beans yesterday in the pressure cooker and used them to make
rice and beans. Not really exciting tasting, though.
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