Doings Part 2

More of what me, myself and I have been doing.

Peeps.  We got new chicks this year.  We had decided last summer to ease out of the chicken business.  Hubby does 99% of the work and neither of us are getting any younger.  Plus with eggs at $4 a dozen in the store, we weren't saving any money.  Now that eggs are $6 a dozen, my hubby is willing to go for another few years.

Listening to our new peeps peeping

 

Soap making.  Got the itch and made six 2-lb batches, which makes about 60 bars of soap.  We'll be good for awhile, even when giving lots away to family.

Mojito (lime and mint) soap and lemongrass soap.

Cucumber melon soap and lemon ginger soap

Spearmint soap and orange cinnamon soap

Starting seeds.  I started a bunch of tomato seeds on March 26.  By April 1 very few had germinated, so I started a bunch more.  Of course, that's when all the original seeds started to grow, so now I have a buttload of tomato seedlings growing under lights in my sun room.  I transplanted the biggest ones today into paper cups.

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Reading.  Finished these.  I would recommend them all.

          

Finally, I've spent a good amount of time trying to stay alive in a zombie apocalypse.  My family and Hubby's brother's family are sharing an online server on Project Zomboid.  It's pretty fun.  We usually play several nights a week. We had to turn the zombie spawn rate down dramatically because we kept dying every five minutes.  We're also using a skill journal mod where we can record our skills, because when you die you lose your skills and that really sucks.  With the skill journal if we die we just reread the journal and we gain our skills back.

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We also traded in our 2017 Nissan Leaf EV for a 2018 Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid. The Leaf was a good car, but its batteries were old generation and the range was only 85 miles summer, 65 miles winter.  

We also also planted 5 peach trees that we got for free from Hubby's father.  He said they were northern hardy, but we shall see.  I do love peaches.

So that's about it.  Those are most of the noteworthy Doings for the last three months.  We still get together with G & B at least once a week, and O & E once a month.  It's really nice having them all so close to home.