I all the time really feel like I submit many how-to’s and never many “actual lifes”. Though I do try to incorporate that into my newer posts, I’ve usually thought that it is perhaps much more useful for my readership to get a greater glimpse within what our easy/homestead/from scratch/frugal life actually appears to be like like.
Frugal Friday Week 18
So I’ve began a brand new collection known as Frugal Friday and wish your assist. My thought for this collection is to share a few of the tasks/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, usually, simply what life appears to be like like.
I want your assist as a result of I’ve tried one thing related earlier than, and I gave up after some time. I bought bored, felt like nobody was studying it or cared, and I moved on to different tasks. So what I want you to do every week is to share what your week regarded like within the feedback part. I feel it might hold us ALL accountable and should function an encouragement to others!
So let’s dive proper into this week!
Meals We Ate
This was a wild week of working exterior, so meals had been something we might pull from the fridge! Breakfasts had been yogurt and granola, banana bread, egg sandwiches, and leftover pancakes.
Procuring I Did
I picked up a couple of issues for a campfire fellowship night time that we’re having at our residence…sizzling canine buns, watermelon, and a few chips. It’s going to be a fantastic night time!
I additionally purchased a couple of extra provides for my backyard, like weed cloth, backyard staples, and new backyard gloves.
Outdoors Tasks We Labored On
As I discussed final week, this was an enormous week for working within the backyard. The fence is nearly fully achieved (simply wants another gate). Constructing an 8-foot elk fence has been fairly the endeavor!
I planted virtually all the pieces within the backyard beds that we made. Beans, floor cherries, squash, pumpkins, melons, peppers, extra fruit bushes, lettuce, chard, and over 70 tomato crops lastly went within the floor. This 12 months, it’s been a battle to get the backyard made in between the rain, which is uncommon for us (most of our rain comes within the fall). I’m not ungrateful for the moisture, but it surely’s been exhausting to work round.
Inside Tasks We Labored On
None. This was an enormous exterior week.
Weblog Posts I Wrote
I’m making an effort to be a bit extra seasonal with my weblog posts; right here’s what’s new and up to date this week!
Trying Forward to Subsequent Week
I’ve only a few extra backyard beds that must be made and planted, and I’m hoping to get that achieved this weekend, offered it stops raining lengthy sufficient in order that we will until. I’m so grateful for the rain however hope it would get me to complete getting the backyard in first!
So inform me….what did life seem like for you this week? What did you do, make, or plan to do?
Merissa has been running a blog about and living the simple life since 2009 and has internationally printed 2 books on the subject. You may examine Merissa’s journey from penniless to the 100-acre farm and ministry on the About Page. You may ship her a message any time from the Contact Page.
