Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug
With house projects, beach walks and getting ready for our next guest, it’s been easy to stay unplugged lately. Having guests is cool and all, but the best part might just be cramming to get all the things done before they arrive.
It motivates you to complete a project or two a little quicker than if you got it done in your own time.
In The Kitchen
Zucchini season is coming to a close. We’re down to just about three a week now. I told the HH we should find a spot for a small greenhouse. That way we could grow fresh vegetables well into fall. Possibly even winter.
Kitchen Goals For This Year
- Master the pear frangipane tart from Standard Baking Company.
- Put my Weck jars to use. Working on it!!
- Use two bins of beans {Working on it}
Rug Hooking
My Gobble Gobble rug sold yesterday. Hooray! Also, I managed to get a few smaller rugs hooked that were in my “someday I’ll hook these” bin.
Rug Hooking Goals For This Year
Finish drawing out all my patterns, making kits, dyeing wool by March 31st.- Release 10 new rug hooking patterns/kits. {4 down 6 to go}
- Hook 27 of the patterns from the “someday I’ll hook these” bin. {14 down 13 to go}
Go New Places – See New Things
The only place we went this week {besides the beach} was to the grocery store. I am consistently in awe of the altered food products on the shelf.
Travel Goals For This Year
- Travel someplace {internationally} that I’ve never been before.
- Travel somewhere in Maine {overnight} that I haven’t been before.
Places I’ve Been So Far This Year
- Boston {Birthday getaway}
- NYC {Girls getaway}
- John Mellencamp Concert + Stockbridge, MA
Walk And Stretch More
Tons of walking this week! Turns out that “BIG STORM” wasn’t so big here in Southern Maine.
Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year
- Get into some sort of stretching routine
- Fast walk a 5K, 10K, and
Half Marathon
Garden
Getting closer to the big carrot harvest of 2026!
Garden Goals For This Year
Rework the driveway and garden areas{DONE!}Go crazy and plant a ridiculous amount of flowers{DONE!}Step out of my comfort zone and plant some flowers I’ve never planted before{DONE!}
Paint
And finally… Painting the ceiling. It’s done! All the track lighting is down and the ceilings in the entryway and two front rooms are finished. It seems like it took forever and my neck still hurts but hey, it’s done.
The HH still has to spackle the ceilings in the back room but that will have to wait until next week.
Can you believe it’s the end of September already? How did that happen!? I hope you have a great day. Peace Out.
~Mavis
Painting Goals For This Year
- The Van Gogh wall
- The gallery wall down stairs
- The captains wall in the hall
- Trim and walls
Nancy Settel says
Well that milk Mavis is something else. An Amish market we go to outside of Lancaster Pa every once in a while (for bulk spices etc.) carries a milk that is orange milk. Tastes like an orange popcicle!!! Had to try it and while it was darn good wouldn’t want it all the time. The mid Atlantic area got hit so bad and will take forever to get things back to normal, glad it wasn’t a problem for all of you. Everything you are doing looks wonderful.
Laura says
Do you have squash vine borer up there? They always kill my zucchini mid-summer. 🙁
Mavis Butterfield says
So far so good here in Maine.
Carla says
“I am consistently in awe of the altered food products on the shelf. ”
You’re going to have to expand on this statement. What do you mean??
J in OH-IO says
It’s not even Christmas or St. Patrick’s Day! Someone is going to need to try that mint chocolate chip milk and report back to us for research purposes! Curious minds want to know – what do the locals use it for? Have you or HH tried it? Drinking, making icecream and milkshakes, but I’m not so sure about cereal… hmmm.
What a cool local specialty favorite in your area! Here in OH it’s local apple cider and local apple butter – buy it when you see it because it sells out fast.
Juliet says
Your plate of food looks scrumptious! Would you share the ingredients for the vegetables and how you cooked them? I can’t decide what all veggies are there. Ha. Thanks!
J in OH-IO says
I thought the same thing about the veggies, greens, and fluffy eggs!