Munchkin and Gnome have started the new year with hard work and lots and lots of hard work and there is still more work to be done!! The house is getting tidied up and we have a work schedule that has not been thwarted by the weather (only by a bunch of army ants on the 1st of January). Apart from that…the weather has been co-operating…that is a first!!
The only harvest that we have right now is tobacco; here is a picture of the leaves drying. This particular tobacco variety has a reddish colour.
Another picture:
This stuff takes up a lot space so Gnome has been twisting them into tobacco rope:
Oh, before I forget…remember that Crazy Cat of ours (the feral one)? He is actually sitting now on our laps and likes to sit with Gnome when he is working with the tobacco. Have we tamed the wild cat??
What else is happening? As I mentioned already, we don’t have much in terms of new vegetables. We are mostly eating moringa leaves for greens right now. We actually have this new vegetable…a bitter gourd (serosi)…an unusual white variety. This type is less bitter so I don’t like it as much…it is a matter of personal taste…
Oh, yes…we are still make pasta/ noodles!! We are trying to work through a 50lb bag of flour. It might take a while. We have been experimenting with new colours and flavours…more about that soon!!
