What I Did This Week & What I'm Doing Today

I did some testing in the kitchen this week because apparently, and who knew, there's a new trend in dehydrated orange slices. I had to confirm or deny the trend as soon as I found out about it.

I can confirm that it's messy. I'm not going to tell you anymore about this experiment and how it worked out, that information will be coming later this week.

While I was doing this I suddenly had the urge to do a lot more with dried orange slices this year so now I'm on the hunt for a lot of on sale oranges. I'd either like to do a stained glass window with them or a wreath.

Amaryllis

If you remember all the talk about what to do with your amaryllis bulbs last winter you know that now is the time to pot them up if you haven't already. I took my 2 bulbs out of the fridge where I had them chilling in paper bags in the crisper.

Today I'll figure out how I want to plant them. I'm considering doing a Kokedama ball around them this year. Or a low ceramic container with twigs. It's up in the air at this point.

Much like Philip

Instead of bagging my leaves this year I dragged all the leaves from the sidewalk and along my fence into the backyard and mounded them into a pile to decompose over the winter.

Also - it would give Philip a massive leaf pile to play in. He loses his mind with leaves.

And then I noticed him poop in the leaves the next day, which is not ideal for compost. Or turning a compost pile. Dog poop isn't ideal for anything other than revenge.

I cleaned up the poop, re-mounded the leaves and will add them to my closed compost pile later this week once I finish sifting what's already in there.

Dahlias

The dahlias have been dug up and washed. The clumps sit outside so they don't dry out. As I get a chance to split them, I bring a clump or two inside and work on them in the kitchen or in front of the fire while waiting for the stupidest boxing match in the world to air at some time around 4 in the morning.

So ya, that's how I do it.

I found cutting the stalks back and leaving them for a couple of weeks was really helpful for splitting them. The eyes are definitely more visible.

And the pruners might look like a bit of a mess but I sharpened and oiled them just before I started splitting. Today I adjusted them as well to tighten them up a bit, because I am a grown up adult who can maintain her own pruners. Mostly.

That's it for me and my doings.

Have a good remainder of your weekend.