In the Garden: Picking cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and zucchini; inspecting for vegie plants for pests; feeding the worms; emptying the kitchen scraps bucket into the compost bin.
In the Kitchen: Sorting through the party leftovers ;-) Menu planning for the week. Making honey-toasted muesli.
In the Laundry: Washing, washing, washing. Hanging clothes out in the sun. Soaking the dishcloths and tea towels in homebrand Napisan to whiten them up.
Projects we're working on: 1. DH is researching electric bikes to ride to and from work when the weather is favourable. They are essentially a normal hybrid road bike with a motor that can be utilised as required (i.e. going up the hills), which should make the 17 kilometre (10.5 mile) one-way trip much quicker.
2. I was going to try making some large cloth nappies, until I discovered some cheap, homemade waterproof AIO's (all-in-ones) on eBay (around $10 each), so I have ordered 4 to see how they go (and I probably won't need any more than that). They should make a nice positive impact on our weekly garbage weigh-in.
Projects I'm contemplating: Making some good quality nativity costumes for the kids for use in future years. It won't be long before I have three kids in school and will therefore require a variety of nativity costumes each year for the choir or nativity play, so if I get the plans and requirements together now, I have a year in which to get at least one made ;-)
Greening up our Christmas: My side of our families decided yesterday to forgoe presents for the adults. Instead we will donate $50 per family to the charity of our choice. DH and I will probably "buy" something from Oxfam Unwrapped, and Mum mentioned the Salvation Army as their preferred choice. I suspect we will end up doing something similar with DH's side fo the family, but we haven't yet confirmed it; that's next on the To Do List.
Utilities: Gas 36.5 MJ/day; water 359 L/day; electricity 14.1 kWh/day. As I mentioned above, we had two visitors over the weekend, and a party with 11 extras on Sunday, so I shouldn't be surprised that our electricity and water use averages rose markedly over the past few days. Nevermind, back to being careful now, and see if we can get those averages back down again!
3 comments:
That muesli looks delicious. Have you posted the recipe on your site?
I *love* the way you set out your blog; so easy to follow and interesting.
Hi Kate, the muesli recipe is on my cooking blog, I'll activate the link from this post for you in a sec :-) Thanks for the kind words too! Cheers, Julie
A joke Christmas pressie we used to exchange each year with a brother-in-law and his wife was a brand new(still in the wrapper) purple 1970's Millers shirt bought at the Salvos.
The following year they gave it back to us with a bright orange patterned tie;then we returned it to them the year after with a lime green belt, we got it back with a red hanky tucked in the front pocket,etc.
Rules were simple - anything had to be bought at an op shop!
Money went to charity,no useless gadgets to throw out,inexpensive and gave us all a few laughs.
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