Do You have Winter Chores?

[digitS']

I know, it's nearly Christmas and that's busyness, enuf.

But, things that you may only do once a year. Indoor stuff. So, you leave them for winter. Winter is Here!

It was probably @majorcatfish 's garden humor about the guy fixing his own dinner. Or, @Carol Dee 's picture of the lady with the scrub board. The first thing I thought of was my grandmother! I know I have seen the chubby little lady with her hair tied up that way, probably wearing the same dress. I wonder if I ever saw her up to her elbows in soap suds, with a washboard in a galvanized tub.

Anyway, I brought the ladder in, unscrewed the bolt holding the cover of the kitchen ventilation fan and washed it. Ya know, it really didn't look that dirty standing on the kitchen floor. How about you, do you have things you only do in the winter that you need to get to, sometime soon? Do we need a "what did you do in the garden today" thread?

Steve

 

[canesisters]

Do I have chores? Do I have CHORES???

I have a list of catagories to organize my chores into bunches that can be multitasked

And it's ALL his fault ~~>

This is me until Sunday night =

 

[Larisa]

do you have things you only do in the winter

Yes there is! It is necessary to remove freckles, to they come back again in the summer!

 

[majorcatfish]

hum the list im with cane
the top 3
pull the top off the well and pack full of insulation.
paint and re number the mailbox
rebuild the garden tractor
ok 4
cut down the gumball tree next to the raised beds.....
ok 5
gather up all the stuff that did not make it on the spring trip to the transfer station, and take it down there...

 

[ninnymary]

The only thing I can think of is my taxes, haha. Does that count?

Mary

 

[digitS']

It does.

And, I'll be struggling with them in January.

I completed the forms and turned over sales taxes just a few weeks ago. Farmers' market is long closed and I can't make any interest on $ a buck, two-fifty ... that's an easy one but it's always interesting, especially when there are changes.

Steve

 

[journey11]

Yes there is! It is necessary to remove freckles, to they come back again in the summer!
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Hey Larisa, you must share some of this secret freckle remover with me! I have them head to toe!

Fighting dry skin and cracked hands is a constant chore for me in winter. I like to have manual dexterity, so I forego the gloves more often than I should. I've tried many things, but this is the best stuff... Otherwise I am running around with bandaids and neosporin on my fingertips.

Winter chores often consist of catching up on things that got behind in the summer. I'll freeze tomatoes, chicken backs, etc. and get back to canning them later. Sorting, thorough cleaning, shampooing the carpets, cobwebs, things that I let pile up...better address them before February or I'll be tripping over them all summer long. Feeding the woodstove...that's definitely a chore. Keeping the ashes and bark swept up.

I like my winter routines of bundling up and going out to tend the animals. It is my escape to sanity as the kids won't follow me out on the coldest days. House starts to feel really small right about now...

 

[Nyboy]

@journey11 have you ever tried Bag balm it is for cows udders, works great on dry skin

 

[Beekissed]

I have lists...we make seasonal lists here and I'm still working on the FALL list! (And part of the spring/summer list ) Besides daily chores of feeding and tending to the animals and getting in firewood, we have things we regularly try to tend to in the winter months and then things we HOPE to get to in that season. That is the A list and the B list, sort of like a chore list with a wish list tacked on.

Wed. was clean out spots of clutter and catch all in the room in which I'm sitting now....of course, that kind of chore extends to where to put all the things you've placed in the "catch all" areas~(found a package of curtain rings)resulted in putting up that curtain rod on the canning shelf so I could finally hang that insulated curtain there, (found a bunch of mismatched screws) putting them away in the hardware box resulted in finding that set of tiny screwdrivers that I was looking for the other day that would allow me to replace the batteries in that one flashlight....which extended to replacing batteries in ALL the little flashlights we have tucked here and there~well...you get the idea. Pretty soon that little chore you wanted to get done has you running all over the house like a chicken sans head.

Today I'm hoping to put wood chips around the coop and outbuilding where the animals trample the soil the most, to keep down the mud factor...that will require that I hook the lawn tractor battery back up, hook on the garden cart and mobilize chips to these areas. That will lead to hauling buckets of water up to the coop so I can clean out waterers and refill, put hay in the third nesting box(egg laying picking up here), and tack up some plastic in the dog lounge area.

Then I'll cart the sewing machine back down here(that thing is HEAVY)...need to put velcro in Dad's shirts so it's easier to dress him, his arms grow more stiff as time goes along. Was supposed to have that done by this fall.

Then I hope to move on to cleaning up my bedroom....that requires removing the mattress,all the linens, washing down walls, cleaning out the closet, rehanging the curtain there that I took down weeks ago to wash and never got around to putting it back, washing that ceiling fan..ick, cleaning out dresser drawers, eliminating clothes.....well...I'll not get that done today, so I hope to hit some high spots before I have to move along to baking a pumpkin and baking some bread. Still have huge pumpkins and squash sitting under the carport right now that need canned up in some manner...again...a fall chore.

Company coming tomorrow, so no chance of knocking out the list then..... but needless to say we have a myriad of winter chores on the list and the list seems to grow rather than get shorter at times.

Add to that, I still have a biggy on the fall list I haven't completed...I started it but never got it finished~clean out and sorting of items in the pantry/mud room where all the canned goods, tools, small appliances, water, etc. are stored. Can't build the tater bin/bench for that room until I clear it out(also was on the fall list) and I can't really get that build done until I run electric into the shed(which was on the spring list, then the fall list and now...), which will lead to putting together that shelf that we bought some time back in order to organize the shed better.....

Winter chores? I've gottem. Right after I get done with the spring/summer/fall chores.

 

[digitS']

@Beekissed ,

that sounds like my first complaint around here:

I've gotta move something before I do something. Sometimes, it's my second complaint: I've gotta move something before I can move something, before I do something! Sometimes, it's my third ....

Steve