Dear Cindy,
I think we're finally finding a routine. Sort of.
The strike escalated after the stat holiday.
Luckily, we have a relatively low cost of living, and have savings, and know how to budget ourselves for the significant reduction of my income while on strike. I feel for the families where both partners work for the government and those just starting out, and those who live in a high rental/mortgage situations....
Monday is no school. So the boys plus one went swimming while I walked the picket line.
I baked two loaves of sourdough and gave one away.
I made some poached eggs and toast for breakfast. Minus hollandaise sauce. I've never been good at making that.
I made up a batch of hamburger soup with venison from last night's taco dinner.
I put a pork leg roast in the slowcooker so we have a supply of ready to eat meats for our egg sandwhiches lunches.
Tuesday is a holiday so it's heavy garden chores with help. We need to:
- harvest carrots, wash and put in buckets of soil for winter
- harvest potatoes, dry and bring in to cellar
- bring in the pepper plants
- bring in the cabbages
- remove the broccoli row
- take down the wall of green beans and harvest them for winter dried beans
- remove all the weeds from all the sections of garden
- pull out the cucumber plants
- eat all the salad that still remains
and I'm sure I'm missing some jobs.
Wednesday is picket and chess club and baseball
Thursday is virtual picket and garden chores
Friday is picket and tae kwon do and board game clube
Saturday is swim lessons, weight/strength coaching and the haunted corn maze
Sunday we got our killing frost. The boys are headed to a neighbour to help with pulling in their garden.
Good week over all. Still lots to do before the ground freezes hard. Apples on the tree and beans to dry and store.
