Saving Seeds- Start Saving Cucumber Seeds - Part one

My cucumbers are being ready to harvest. This means I can also start to save my seeds, for next year. I ordered this cucumbers are from Self Survival Essentials, and are organic heirloom seeds.

July 24, 2014

Some people people leave the cucumber on the vine until it is huge and yellow. I personal don't do that. Or at least not on purpose. I just use the cucumber seeds that come out when I cut my cucumbers.

My cucumber seeds

If you ever look at a cucumber seed that comes out of a cucumber, it has a mucus cover the seeds. The mucus comes off by fermenting it. I start to fermenting process today. 

The seeds in the jar 

The start of this process is two put the seeds in water. You will see some seeds sink and some float. I just leave them there for now. I will leave the jar uncover and on the counter for 4-5 days

on the counter for the 4-5 days. 

Come back in a week and seed how I get the bad seeds seprated from the good seeds and dry them. 

Are you saving your seeds this year? 

Daily goals - Saturday, July 26th, 2014

Good morning! Hubby will be home today after 2 weeks away for military training. I can't wait. I have miss him so much. I got up already feed everyone, started the wash, did the dishes and started dinner.

Some funny pictures of the cucumber I harvest last night!! 

Today's goals

1. Cleaning - cleaning the deck off. Hubby is sore so I'm going to have the hot tub ready for him. 
2. Cleaning - clean the kitchen. Have the table set. 
3. Cleaning- make the bed! I want Hubby to come home and relax. 
4. Gardening- I want to weed some of the garden! 
5. Gardening - take down the green house. So it will be time to plant fall plants!! 

What are you doing today?? 

Daily Goals - Thursday, June 24, 2014

Today has been a busy morning. I got up and drained my yogurt. That took up must of my morning time. I did get a time to wash all the yogurt stuff too!

Today's goals

1. Work - I work from 8am until ?, honestly I don't really know. 
2. Homestead - Fix rabbit hutch. Last night, I wasn't able to really put the cage back together, it was lighting and being in a cage of metal didn't seem like the best idea. 
3. Family - Today is my Tutu's Birthday. I'm going to go to my aunts to celebrate! 
4. Homestead - post about making my yogurt

I'm only planing 4 goals today, because a lot of my day is questionable. Like what time I get out of work or how long my Tutu's party is going to be. 

Daily goals- Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Today I slept in a little bit now it's time to get the house back in order! 

Today's goals

Household- Clean the kitchen. I want to get it all picked up and mopped in the table set and everything ready for Hubby to be home till nice clean house!! 

Household- Clean the porch. The last huge storm we had knockdown everything around our porch and made a huge mess I just have not gotten a chance to clean it. Today I want to clean it and reorganize it. 

Homestead- finish up my chicken broth. I started homemade chicken broth last night I'm hoping to finish it up today and put it in the freezer so that it's ready for when I need it. Nothings better than free homemade chicken broth!!

Homestead- make Greek yogurt. With the new THM food plan that we are following I use a lot of yogurt. So we decided to save some money and make our own Greek yogurt. By making her own yogurt we'll save between $7-$10 a week. 

Gardening- weeding.  I have so much to weed today. Hoping it cools off later tonight and I can get out there and get some of it done! 

 What are you doing today? Are you getting into your garden? Be careful if your outside it suppose to be hot today!! 

Daily goals - Monday, July 21st, 2014

Good morning! Life is so busy right now I don't have time for anything! I'm getting so fusteraded and wishing that it would slow down! 

This morning, I woke up walked the dog. Picked wild raspberries, harvest cucumbers. Then started the wash folded the wash and put wash in the dryer. I did the dishes, feed the pets and packed up stuff to make for dinner and lunch at work for the next 2 days! (1 bag of Tupperware, 1 bag of veggies, and 1 bag of meat!)

Today's Goals

Work- I work from 8am-6pm. 

Gardening - I need to harvest some banana peppers tonight! 

Gardening- plant the flowers Hubby's mom gave us! 

Homestead - I have to do my cleaning for today. 

Organization - write weekly menu follow THM for the week. 

I have so much more I want to do today! I really want to get these done! 

Daily Goals - Thursday, July 17th 2014

It was a busy morninng! I have been waking up an hour late because I'm so sleepy. Then I'm walking the dog and feeding everyone. Then running out the door.

Skipper on our walk!!

Today's Goals

1. Work - I work from 8am until 6pm. Today is a home day! We will have fun at the house. 
2. Family time - After work little one and I are going to hit the book store and do coffee and relax. 
3. Homestead - I getting so fusteraded with this raccon. It won't stop eating my animals. Today we have to fix the other coop and lock them in it. 
4. Gardening - Harvesting time, today I am harvesting cucumbers, and yellow squash mmmmm!
5. Excerise- Today I want to walk the dog, 10 minute ab workout. 

What are you doing today?

Daily Goals- Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Life has been busy crazy here! We have an animal getting our chickens and bunnies. I am also finial starting to harvest stuff out of the garden!

This morning I worked on a lot of my goals. Raspberries are coming in all around me, therefore Skipper and I took a walk to harvest them this morning! I also took some time to plant and mulch my flower bed this morning. 

Raspberries that I harvested this morning! Mmmm

Today's Goals

1. Work - I work from 8:15am until 6pm. Today will be a fun day, we have some fun things planned. 
2. Weekly Goals - I haven't really been focusing on them therefore I don't feel like I'm getting a lot done. Today, I want to write my goals. 
3. Weekly Menu - I'm so lose without writng a menu. Not just at home but at work too. Cooking for 2 families and not having it write down is not helping me. Time to start to write it down. 
4. Workout- I want to do 5 minutes on the elliptical, and a 15 minute workout on top of that. 
5. Gardening - work on my driveway garden bed. I have flowers to plant and mulch to put around it. Hopeful I can get it 1/2 way done today. 

What are you doing today? Any fun plan?