Sunday, November 23, 2014 DITL

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Forget that it's a DITL day until well after waking up an doing things, so: time-check!



Lady gets dressed.



I get dressed!



We go for a walk! It's cold. Well. For the desert.



Pause to watch the sunrise. Always worth it.






Spot some cold, fluffed-up birdies.



Lady loves on the cold, fluffed-up plants.




Stop to see the cold cows, our ultimate goal on this walk.



Babies!!



Home again. Fluffy, cold cat.



Have some breakfast. Tapioca bread with orange marmalade and apple butter.



Make a grocery list.



Then onto grocery shopping! First stop: Trader Joe's.



Second and third stops: Home Depot and Sprouts. Fourth stop: farmer's market to pick up our CSA turkey. Lady hugs to turkey close to her chest out of affection.



Time check on the way home.



Our grocery haul.



Lookit that (HUGE) turkey. I hope it's tasty. It'll go in the fridge to start it's four days of thawing.



Start washing greens while talking to mom on the phone.



Continue the cooking regime with cleaning and chopping beets.



Spend a moment envying the cats.



Head out again! Time check.



Stop by the nearby nursery.



We peruse the greens.



SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SPREAD



Stop by the chickens on our way to the garden to make sure they're doing all right. We wormed them Saturday morning so no egg collection today but lots of squawks and appreciative pecks.



The property owner has a new kitten for which she's looking for a home, so I snap some photos of the cutie. If we didn't already have two...



Then harass the ladies in the safety of their own coop! The one has a naked neck, which is part of the impetus for worming.



Finally, the garden! We pulled up the sweet potato (10 pounds of sweet potato!) on Saturday, so we need to fill that bare spot pronto.



We put in the plants we bought at the nursery: brussel sprouts, bok choy, and a random broccoli




We also steal grab some okra from an abandoned plot. Since he hasn't paid his fees in months, we figure it's fine.



We also water another (!!!) kitten that (officially) has owners, but doesn't seem to be getting much attention. :/



We arrive home to our own pile of sad, neglected kittens. Gosh, their lives are so hard.



Wash and prep the chicken we got from our meat CSA.



Put mushrooms in the sun (apparently they can synthesize vitamin D!) and make lunch.



I eat my food and watch Lady chop sprouts.



I wash and cook cranberries for sauce.



Finished cranberry sauce. SO GOOD.



Finished roast chicken. SO GOOD.



(Almost) finished paleo stuffing. SO GOOD.



I take a break from cooking/chopping to work on refurbin' the trunk. First I glue on the new foam pads.



Then I iron the new fabric. OWLS



Staple the fabric.



Complete! ...almost



Now it's complete! It only took us three months to finish this project...



Go for a walk to stretch our legs and mock the cats.






When we return, I write for a bit,



read for a bit,



then go to sleep. G'night!