Weekly update - April 25, 2025

Really, this is going to be more kitchen-related items than anything else because that is what I've spent the most time on. (It's also probably going to be rather dull.) Really the week was non-eventful with little to chat about. And with the state of the nation, I'm just as happy nesting in the kitchen. 
  • Y. made bread today which we desperately needed. When she used up the wheat berries we had in the storage buckets, this meant I needed to refill them with more wheat. 

I'm happy I have a new outlet to buy wheat berries. 

Y. has definitely perfected bread baking. 


Of course, it doesn't take long for the masses to cut into fresh bread. 


  • The shelf where I keep cookbooks has been bothering me for some time. 

It needs a good cleaning, and I had let recipes I wanted to keep pile up. Plus, I realized that there was a large stack of cooking magazines that were very nice, but I never looked at. I decided that it made more sense to pull out the recipes I wanted and recycle the rest of the magazines. This would free up space and make it far more likely I would make the recipes. (That space on the upper left shelf held all sorts of magazines and loose recipes. The space on the bottom left shelf is where my large binders live.)

Having sorted through the magazines, I then needed to sort them into the binders. Here is what the dining room table during the process. 

Those stacks of paper are recipes which I need to sort. 

These binders hold a lot of recipes, but they get a lot of use, so I've been repairing torn pages and such as I go through them. Its taking a little longer than I had planned. 


They're rather thick. 

So I can't show you the newly cleaned and organized shelf because I can't do that until I finish with the binders. 

Fascinating, I know.
  • One of our chickens is laying duck sized eggs.

  • And for something non-kitchen related, my very favorite bush is in bloom. 




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