Maybe it’s just winter, maybe it’s because I’ve started reading the peak-oil sites again, maybe it’s the looming New Zealand election, or maybe it’s because I’ve just received the largest power bill we’ve had in a while*, but I just have to bake. And plant things. Yesterday I planted about 50 onions despite my resolution that I was going to make a plan and stick to it. No more impulse buying seedlings at the supermarket and cramming them in where ever, I am going to make a plan and stick to it. Yesterday though I saw they had onions for the first time in a while and well, I like onions and we use a lot of them and what the hey, I had space where the zucchini and the capsicum plants had come out and it’s only $2.99 for a packet of 30+. So I bought them and planted them and then felt very stupid when I woke up this morning and saw the frost covering them all. Needless to say, my garlic has still not made it into the ground. Priorities? Planning?
*sigh* oh well, back to the baking. I’ve been trying to find the perfect cinnamon scroll recipe but might have to abandon that because I’ve been eating far too many cinnamon scrolls. Baking makes me feel better though. As if I’m doing something concrete and practical and nurturing and creative at the same time. I think I might just turn my effort on to finding the perfect sourdough routine which will simultaneously save me buying yeast from the supermarket and send my earthmother-y credentials soaring.
Just quickly, sorry for the lack of pictures lately. I have some great harvest ones I will share when some technical issues have been resolved.
Keep warm ;>
*We haven’t had one over $100 for a long, long time, and we’re both in shock. I’ve been roaming the house searching for an appliance left on standby or a hot tap dripping. It will be just a couple of winter things adding up I know – the dryer used to dry sheets or that my husband has been sick and so showering at home rather than at the gym – so really nothing requiring drastic action. Yet I think this might the day we start turning off the hot water cylinder for 12 hours a day. The something-or-other law of thermodynamics means (proves? states?) that it takes the same amount of power to heat a water cylinder from cold as it does to keep that same amount of water at a constant temperature, so in theory turning it off for 12 hours a day should save quite a bit of power. There is some debate about this though. I’m going to go and look it up.
