Did some houseplot digging today. 🙂 Yay and hurrah and stuff.
It’s been glorious here all day – dry, sunny and all pretty sparkling off the last remaining snow. The high peaks look like skiing holiday brochures!
This morning I had a lie in, despite Ady’s best efforts to make me get up. There was a *mountain* of washing up from last night so we did that and then Ady made pancakes for the kids while I peeled, topped and tailed 2kg of pickling onions that I added to our veg order as a bit of a joke and turned up yesterday. It’s good though, we get through lots of pickled onions as Scarlett and I LOVE them for lunch in cheese sandwiches plus we can sell jars of them at market day in the summer. So they are in salt ready for vinegar and jarring tomorrow.
We had an early lunch and then went down the hill to dig for a couple of hours. It was very, very cold and once the sun dipped behind the hills it was close to being miserable but two hours made a dent in it and we get to tick it off as a bit done this week, which is good as we’d not done anything since well before Christmas.
While we were digging Steve and Trudi walked round, then Mel did. It’s nice being out and working on the croft and having folk wander past, stop for a bit of a chat and then wander off again. Later while Ady was feeding the pigs he saw Mike & Debs too.
We came in just after 3 for a teabreak. Then Scarlett had a shower while I made apple sauce, an apple pie, peeled and chopped veg for dinner and then brushed her hair. Meanwhile Ady got in some more firewood and fed the animals. It was a good day.
It’s been a pretty productive week considering we have been hampered by winds and extra work in the shape of the polytunnel clear up. Hoping for an equally good week to come and some serious headway on the house plot digging.