Why am I doing Frugal Fridays on Monday? Because my husband was out of town for 3 weeks, and life got a little crazy. And the baby decided he didn’t want to sleep. At all.
It’s all good, though. Hubby is home and baby has decided to resume a good sleeping pattern. Therefore: Frugal Fridays. On Monday.
Successes/Blessings:
- I canned 4 more pints of Cinnamon Rhubarb Jam (this is seriously the tastiest jam I’ve EVER made).
- I dehydrated 10 bananas for our food storage.
- I made yogurt and granola. I added walnuts and coconut to our granola this time because I had remnant bags of them floating around the pantry. I also used honey from my uncle’s beehive (he gave me a frame to extract a few weeks ago. YUM-O).
- A neighbor informed me of a sale going on at the used book store. When I showed up, they women there guessed that we were a homeschooling family, and told us to take as much as we wanted and that they weren’t going to charge us! How sweet!! We got a big reusable shopping bag full of books.
- I havested 4 quarts of black raspberries and a handful of sugar snap peas. I haven’t gotten many peas as I’d hoped for…mostly because the weeds have taken over that part of the garden. My fault.
- My son found out the hard way (by falling into them) that we have stinging nettles behind our garage. These have never grown here before, but I’m very excited! (Although I felt terrible that the little guy got a rash). I made a poultice out of some plantain leaves from the backyard and added in some aloe from my aloe plant. The stinging and rash were gone within minutes!
- I hung our laundry to dry most of the week.
- I went an visited my bees this week as well. They’re living on an uncle’s property while we work toward buying a house with more land. We had a shaky start with these bees. They were a split from one of his hives. They had a live queen, but she wasn’t laying well (spotty brood pattern). Then we put a virgin queen in the hive last Friday, came back a week later and saw this beauty (if you’re wondering what you’re looking at, it’s capped brood (babies). As you can see, her majesty is laying very well!)
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The Cinnamon Rhubarb Jam sounds yummy! Can you share the recipe? Congrats on your hive success. I am reading up on keeping now and hope to have my own, maybe next year.