Rebekah Harmon

Yesterday I made homeade enchiladas from scratch! The chicken was raised by me, the wheat tortillas were rolled out by me from local flour, even the sauce, which I've never made before, was made from tomatoes from my garden which I had freeze dried.
It was a lot of work, but I've been playing with the idea of just how many wonderful meals can be made at home.
Plus a salad from my homegrown lettuce, which is in full swing in the greenhouse. The pepper and cheese on one of the pans wasn't localally produced.
3800 cal estimated. 7 plates.

I made venison meatloaf, boiled spuds and lettuce salad from my garden. It's all local, including the breadcrumbs, salsa and eggs in the meatloaf. Just the salad dressing and butter wasn't made by me.
12 spuds is 1320 cal.
2 lbs. Meatloaf is 1600 cal.
Salad with dressing is 600 cal.
3520 total, 7 plates

Once again, I made elk burgers and fries. The pickles, lettuce, buns and tomatoes are all local! But the cheese isnt. 10 Plates again

Hey! So I finally looked up my favorite waffles recipe. It makes 10 waffles, each 148.1 calories, so the whole recipe is 1,481 cal. With butter and syrup on top of that, I'm going to conservatively say waffles and pancakes and muffins (I use the same recipe, just mixing in different additions) are 2,000 calories, or 4 plates.

That makes total so far 239 plates.

Thanks, Dian! Next up, I've got a skirt to replace. It's a grey, stretchy pencil skirt. I used the wool knit fabric I had, but I doubled it up so it would hold up better and not be see-through! ;)

I then dyed the fabric, which has been my most favorite, successful color fastness so far! I used sumac, like I did for the yoga pants, but I only picked the more reddish bunches this time. I also added avocado pits and skins. It stayed a lovely dark purple-grey after washing!

I used my server this time for most of the seams, to which I had added a half inch seam allowance after last times' experience.

This is the first article of clothing with which I'm really happy. This skirt will probably get a lot of use!

There is a hole on my couch. Stuffing is starting to leak out. I repaired it with brown cotton upholstery thread and a needle

I made a skirt! The fabric is a wool knit, which I doubled up. It stretches slightly. It's warm! Yay.
I used a serger and a sewing machine stretch stitch.
This is also fabric I dyed using sumac. (My first really vibrant color!)

My dad had a hole gouged out of his truck seat. I filled it with some felt fabric scraps, then used the same fabric to cover the hole for a patch. I whip stitched it up.

I painted our pumphouse today. I used red barn paint from the building materials thrift store, a paintbrush I had lying around, and a yogurt bucket for holding a smaller amount of paint.
The shed is 8x12. The area that got painted is right at 200 sq. Feet.

Our loan came through and we are beginning to build things out at my new place. Its overwhelming and time consuming. I was right to try finishing PEP2 before all this building was underway, because now I've slowed down so much in the bb space.
Once in awhile, I spend an hour or so playing with a textile project. Or preparing my family bb-worthy meals. Those are contributing to an overall progess with the wood level bbs that take a long time and several entries to work on. But the number of bb projects all in different stages of completion is FOR SURE wearing me out. I'll stop one because I ran out of materials. I'll start another when a neighbor is ready, but have to wait for them again. Maybe another bb im working on is a seasonally sensitive one, so while I wait, I order supplies for another.
If I have a minute, which one do I work on? Does 20 minutes on this one and 40 minutes on that one actually help me get any closer to finishing a bb? It doesn't feel like it sometimes. I need focus and clarity. Wish me some!