Yesterday, I listened to MCR while cleaning bathrooms in the morning. The toddler was making a "bus" out of her bookcase (and a mess from the books on the floor!!), and I was able to get on and enjoy my cleaning.
Later, when my DH came home from work and I got a chance to go out (before I went to a coffee shop to do some work myself), I harvested a couple of bags of beans from our vegetable garden, which I froze when I got home. Some of these are destined for our Christmas celebrations when we get back home from all our visiting (a really nice, relaxed family dinner for the 3 of us). I also brought home the first 2 ears of corn- tiny but delicious, enough peas to give DH and I a serving with one ear of the corn, enough brocolli for a small batch of soup and a handful of radishes for DH to munch.
I hope to get enough corn in the next couple of weeks to freeze some of that too (I didn't grow enough and it didn't grow very well, but there are signs of something to harvest), and I will be spending an afternoon blanching and freezing brussels sprouts in the next couple of weeks too, for the same purpose (they are ready to harvest a couple of months ahead of when I expected them!).
And then, I wrapped some horticultural fleece around my potato plants - in the hope that the frosts don't kill them off yet and I get some nice sized ones for that same family celebration (new potatoes at Christmas!! It's an experiment but a lot of gardeners I know do it very successfully).
Followed by another hour or so knitting after dinner. So not a bad lot of Christmas fun in total!
