Ulog 92: Everywhere I Look... More Homesteading Projects Are Demanding My Attention

To say the last couple of months have been out of the norm for me and my homestead is an understatement. Between my recovery from the auto collision to my husband's heart attack and surgery to getting things changed over from winter to summer gardening and my son's wedding coming up this weekend, life on the Golden D Homestead has been a whirlwind of activity and fluttering of interruptions.

As you can see the mint plant I had in my indoor winter garden, which I have propagated twice over the last few months, is outgrowing its pot. So I need to separate it again and transplant.

I fear it may not wait for me, and Mother Nature's rampage of rain and severe weather to stop, before it grows even more; or gosh forbid, starts to die off.

And this is an easy chore for me to do. The others down the list get more and more detailed and time consuming.

In our ventures out-and-about, we were able to score these two windows that someone had tossed out for garbage pickup. While they aren't the exact size I need to make a cold frame that has been on my homesteading to-do list for three years now, I know I can use some ingenuity and make them work for this small garden bed box. Granted I wish they were wood framed instead of the vinyl, but I can make-do.

I'll be researching more about how to do this build and am hoping to get some useful tips from this page on the Morning Chores website page

Mr Golden D brought these home from work a few weeks prior to his heart attack and they sit in the same position that we put them the day he brought them home. I was originally going to make a good, and solid, table for next to my BBQ grill (and also my new smoker), but we were able to find a decent one to do the job at another garage sale a few weeks back. So now I need another idea.

These pallets aren't your every run of the mill pallets either. They are solid with 1/4-inch plywood for the base and un-splintered 2x4's. They are heavy duty!

So now I am thinking they may be good to use towards making a gardening potting table. All I need is two or three more like this and I can whip it up!

Just a couple of days ago I wrote a post about a new homesteading skill I am taking refuge in to learn. And upon some of my travels to thrift stores and garage sales I've been adding to my collection to start this new skill.

I've been collecting candle making supplies for the last six or so months, just waiting until I had enough gathered up so I can start making my own candles. I've seen a few different ways (thanks YT channels) that people make them. I even watched some people who make real fancy and scented candles.

That's all fine and good, but I want utilitarian candles, not ones that take weeks to make and you don't want to burn them because they are just too beautiful to waste. I want them around for power outages and other possible things.

Sure once I get the hang of making candles, I will make some to give to my children and to others as gifts, but right now it is a skill I'll be working on and honing in on.

So once this weekend is over and my son marries his beautiful bride... my homestead should go back to normal - whatever that is.