NO!! Nonononono, Moldy! Do not start lemon balm from seed! PM me your addy and I will send you some starts of the blasted stuff - very lemony scented! And I will dance all the way to the post office
I've been yanking the stuff out and throwing it on the burn pile!
I can't remember much about last week - seemed like I was running all week long! Had family over for Easter dinner, worked Mon/Tues nights, got off Wednesday morning and tilled 3 of the gardens and did some mowing, watched the boys Wendesday afternoon, then slept like the dead Wednesday night
Finally got fed up and dragged Hubby to the doc on Thursday, and caught up on laundry and rested on Friday.
I've not gotten a whole lot done this week beyond mowing - which I didn't get finished due to having to go to work - some parts will have to be bush hogged when it finally dries up enough to mow again. We are on day 3 of rain; with 5 more days of rain forecast. Hubby was so bullheaded about going to the doc over his cold; by the time I finally dragged him in, it had gone into pneumonia; so he has been down since last Wednesday - which means my big rain water tank didn't get hooked up the downspout on the machine shed. I'm hopeful that he'll get it done sometime this week, when he gets to feeling better and if the weather cooperates.
Spent 5 hours on the mower Saturday (I need a milk cow to eat all this grass!); then went in to work that night and Sunday night, got off Monday morning and came straight home and fell into bed for a nap as daughter needed to bring the boys out at 12:30 for me to watch while she worked - her babysitter was without power. I managed to get a little cleaning up done in the yard while they were here, but then had to stop to run them home. Got home and threw in a load of laundry before I hit the shower and headed for bed. Got up this morning and stripped the beds, hung the laundry in the washer on the line, threw the feather throws in the washer, got the dishes done up, made a batch of lemonade and one of tea, had breakfast, hung the blankets on the line and tossed in a load of sheets, then decided to make some new compost bins to go in a difficult to till area in one of the gardens (there's an asparagus bed in the way), so hauled a half-dozen (free!!) skids out to the garden and managed to slog around in ankle deep mud long enough to get it started. I love zip ties
I'm going to have to con my co-worker buddy into taking me to pick up some more free skids so that I can fill that whole area with compost bins....
Got done with that in time to get cleaned up before lunch - ham salad on crackers and a banana; then hung the sheets on the line and threw in another load of laundry - I swear I don't know where it all comes from!! Had a plan to walk with the neighbor lady and was on my way to her house when daughter called - babysitter had bailed for the afternoon and she had a client coming at 2:30; could I pick up the boys? So we cut our walk just a little short and I headed for town and snagged the boys - totally forgetting to also snag the boots from our house - they'd worn them home Monday night; all they had were good sneakers and "I" thought it was too cold to be out barefoot, so we stayed inside. I manged to get another load of laundry done and hung most of it out to dry; saved the rest to dry with the load of towels I knew I'd be washing after the boys' baths
Brought in the stuff that was on the line when I hung the last load; then snuck out the shed and brought in another couple boxes of canning jars and got them going in the dishwasher. I'd pulled some chicken out of the freezer to fix for supper; don't know why I pulled out two bags but was glad I did as daughter called as she was heading out to pick up the boys and wanted to know if they'd eaten yet; told her it was cooking, and she asked if there was enough for her as well. You betcha!! Homemade fried chicken strips, hashbrown cassarole, home canned green beans, biscuits with cream gravy, and home canned peaches - yum!! After supper, it started raining again - with the sun shining, so there was a gorgeous double rainbow; we took the boys out and showed it to them; then daughter let them take off their shoes and run around in the yard in the rain for just a bit. We brought them in and plopped them in the tub to warm up; I kept an eye on them while daughter cleaned up the kitchen, then we stuffed them into jammies and put them on Papaw's lap to watch cartoons while we sorted through some boxes of shoes to find the next sizes up for the boys. I'm betting she had to carry two snoozing little boys in the house when she got home
I work Wednesday and Thursday nights, so not sure what I'll be doing tomorrow; maybe working some more out in the machine shed -the dumpster the trash folks delivered is about 1/3 full already - and I don't even recognize some of this junk I'm tossing in!! Guess that's what happens when you and your family have lived in the same place for over 50 years!
I have to pick up the boys Friday morning when I get off work - daughter has found a new babysitter, but she doesn't start taking the boys there until Monday. Co-worker buddy is planning to stop by on his way home from an appointment; says he'll bring pizza for our lunch, so I won't have to worry about that. I've already threatened him not to get them too wound up - Heaven help me if they don't nap that afternoon; I'd be one tired Grammy by the time daughter picks them up lol!!
I didn't see any sales this week that were really great; only one I plan to do is a sunglasses sale at CVS. Children or adult sunglasses; buy 2; get a $5 ECB. Kid's sunglasses are $5.99 & $6.99, so I will buy 2, use a $5 pharmacy reward ECB to pay part of the cost, and get back the $5 ECB.
I will check in at the grocery store both days I work and the morning I pick up the boys - the store has ground chuck on sale for $2.99 lb - which means that if they grind too much, they will have it labeled 'Yesterday's Fresh Beef' and marked down to $1.99/lb the next day. I'd like to get enough to can 9 pints of ground beef, plus 18 pints of ground beef veggie soup for Hubby's lunches. I got a call today from someone wanting me to teach a canning class; was hoping for split chicken breast to be on sale for a decent price so that I could stock up on some of it for the class but may have to settle for whatever is on sale. Either that, or wait until the garden is producing something to can! Hmmm, might not be too bad of an idea - con the class into picking and snapping green beans