Gali @galadhir@sunbeam.city

Pickling is underway!

It's all getting very good life. Picked the last tomatoes while waiting for my milk to cool down enough to make yoghurt.

Any one know any good green tomato recipes?

OMG. OMG. You know the wind's against you when you have to pedal hard, on power assist, in order to get downhill.

My home made beeswax wrap is a great success!

Positives of the bike riding -

the dodgy knees seem to be getting better.
I'm getting exercise
I'm saving money
I'm saving the environment

Negatives of the bike riding -

Oh God, I'm so tired!

Me struggling up the cycle-path into the worst head-wind yet: "OMG I detest cycling!"

Me cruising past rush hour traffic looking smug: "I F'ing LOVE my bike."

Right. I have dug wildflower seed into the bald patches in my lawn, digging some scattered grass seed in in the process. I guess I won't find out what happens now until the spring, but fingers crossed :)

Which is frankly kind of peculiar-tasting.

Also the wild strawberries in our lawn yielded enough tiny berries to turn into wild strawberry frozen yoghurt

Also the electric bike is already paying for itself. I ride past so many blackberries that no one else is picking. I'm going to have fruit for breakfast for the year.

For my first year of trying to garden, I'm happy with the results.

Ate my first home grown potatoes today, and OK, they were the size of marbles but they tasted great with my home grown mushrooms. I've had at least three courgettes (more on the plant but they seem to have stopped growing.) I've had green tomatoes - and more on the bush - which I discovered you could fry and eat like red ones.

I've had a couple of handfuls of blueberries, and so many plums! So many plums! My beetroots gave me no roots, but they did give salad leaves...

On the whole it's a good start.

Which I guess is my version of "the perfect is the enemy of the real."

One important thing I learned while looking after my (difficult) dad through his dementia was that if you try to do more than you truly can do, you will end up doing less than if you take your own capabilities into account.

Sometimes you've got to do less to do more