picking fruit tree leaves

 

Monday

I got up at 8. I brushed, etc. I processed the milk just delivered. I put sauerkraut in some of it to see if it would ferment. I washed jars and put them in the oven to sterilize. I made cheese with the second half of the milk. I washed, soaked and dried three packages of strawberries and threw them in the freezer.

I ate fiber gel, then read outside. I made and ate breakfast. I walked to the post office, where I picked up a package of shaped metal rods. I opened the package and put each one where it could help a plant.

I looked for leaves of fruit trees online. I found 8 kinds at one site and ordered them. I had to order blueberry leaves from a separate site. I listened to interviews online while I mended the comforter that Popken dropped off.

I went to pick pear, apple and peach leaves. I washed the leaves, then put them in the dehydrator. I jammed the leafless stems in a planter. I picked hymns for the band for Sunday. I jotted notes, then ate ham.

I went to the chapel for band. When I realized I had left my music in the driveway, I went back for it. We played through the hymns and then songs for Talent Night. I put a stick in the rod pocket of the Communion quilt.

I came home and mowed the lawn for 45 minutes. I worked on my blog. I watched a video on turning aspirin to dinitro-something. Lots of work. But I wish I could do the first part where he distills two bottles of aspirin into pure salicylate.

I made tea, and we watched TV. I took the leaves out of the dehydrator and put them in labeled bags. I put new leaves in the dehydrator along with some jars of yogurt-to-be. I watched some Call the Midwife and went to bed