- get a second crop and harvest of peas - one in the spring, one in the fall
- prepare and freeze more pesto
- make a hard cheese - cheddar or gouda
- make blackberry jam
- make apricot jam
- put up a roasted red pepper spread
- and a tomato preserve
- come up with a scheme that will allow me to purchase pastured chicken from the farmers' market and store it so that I can use it in small portions without cooking the whole thing and then freezing the bulk of it (which makes for yucky chicken)
- put up a comparable quantity of tomatoes as last year
- experiment with an alternative onion storage technique, and store more onions
- research grain mills with an eye toward being able to grind my own whole wheat flour; bonus points if the mill is electric but retrofit-able for hand grinding
- freeze some broccoli
- freeze more corn
- do the math for the economics of making my own butter
- dry more celery
- look into making mayonnaise; this is especially interesting if I can do it in small batches or if it keeps well
- find Caitlyn a replacement for her "nut covered raisins" breakfast cereal, something that doesn't have corn syrup or hydrogenated stuff in it
- read up on making pasta - not likely to be something I do regularly but it would be good to know how to do it
- harvest more of the "fringe" berries - the huckleberries and lingonberries - in the yard
- experiment with more of those good-for-you veggies like beets and turnips, both growing and eating
Other ambitions:
- attempt making soap
- sew more of our clothes; especially see if I can extend the life of things Caitlyn outgrows by lengthening or repurposing
- complete some more quilts, especially some of those that have been waiting in the cedar chest for proper backings or those I've been intending to make out of old t-shirts
- write more regularly, even if it's blogging
- balance my reading diet of fantasy fiction with serious fiction and non-fiction
- find some non-neighborhood volunteer activity; I'm infatuated with the idea of helping out on a farm
- laugh more
- get myself sufficiently extricated from neighborhood association stuff that I'm interested in doing stuff with the broader community (tackling the anti-clothesline rule or teaching sewing or something)
- add a new client or two to the roster
- bring in more money each month than it costs us for Caitlyn's preschool
- worry less, especially about The State of Things - all I can do is prepare as best I can for the space I'm in and worrying isn't going to change what happens, or make it happen faster or slower
- find a better balance between what I want to do and what Caitlyn wants to do
- go for more hikes
- come to some decision about what comes after preschool
- get more exercise
- organize the garage to better use the space
- let go of useless stuff I've been hanging on to, like all my notes from my college courses; I probably have all my AP US history notes from high school around here somewhere, too
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