Good Thing Friday (65)
May 15, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,051.58; Rural libraries, $321.62.
1. PiC and JB teamed up to make me sugar free, gluten free, keto cinnamon rolls and they’re great! I’ve been craving them for months. (Correction: they weren’t keto. They do need to be so I’ll be fiddling with the recipe some more.)
2. My Mother’s Day was spent tackling a part of the yard that has also been bothering me for weeks. I did a big chunk of it on my own in blessed quiet, such a soothing activity to chop and prune back the overgrowth.
Then PiC and JB came out to help for an hour. We got so much more done than I had originally envisioned. My arms may fall off and my back may not work for a week BUT IT IS CLEANED UP. WOOOOO!!
3. We were able to help out a couple more Lakota families (but we ran out of money before I could get the laundry detergent and sheets, sadly).
Challenges this week: JB was really struggling to be human this week. I felt like an anxious pile of sludge, making half my food taste like soap or just nothing.
4. I skipped therapy this week because I’ve been so physically drained and ill that I couldn’t pull myself together to do hard brain work. It was the right call.
5. This bit of genius led to an easy experiment.
I poured the blended ricotta into two small Pyrexes and ended up with two baked ricottas that were pretty good!
It was mostly not sweet (on purpose) and I couldn’t taste the lemon juice or the vanilla. On review, it seems I should have just picked one or the other. Next time I’ll try lemon juice and lemon extract. Next time after that, I’m going to skip the sugar entirely and blend in a little bit of mango if we have it on hand. What flavors would you try?
I’ve gotten a TON of yard work done. Doing one chore a day (the kind of stuff I wouldn’t do if we weren’t sheltering in place, so laundry, dishes, etc don’t count) is helping. I’ve removed one huge ivy section,am almost done with a second, and filled ten yard waste bins with dead branches & leaves (not all at once). It’s a sad reflection on how high maintenance the yard normally is, and our lack of effort!
Hawaii Planner recently posted…Frugal Friday
Way to go!
That one huge piece of yard work got me wanting to do more but every other project is exponentially larger so I haven’t figured out what to tackle next.