12-21-2024 -- Happy Winter Solstice

Howdy all, Today is the “shortest” day of the year. From this point forward, there should be more daylight each day. Time to celebrate. They should have a holiday for this..

I started up some mushroom kits today. A box of Crimini, and two Oyster mushroom logs are set up in my dining room right by the air purifier and the humidifier. It will be a few weeks before any harvesting.

You can see the Crimini box in the case behind. It needs a week of darkness and accumulation of carbon dioxide to get “blooming”.

Also have a box of white buttons started in the 2nd bathroom upstairs. And a humidifier outside that door. Easy to keep temperatures and humidity in range within there.

My Click and Grow garden, also in the dining room, next to the window (sadly, north facing), is starting to grow faster each day. There are grow lights that automatically run 16 hours a day to help.

On the left top are basil and parsley. Bottom left are various colored sweet peppers. The right ones are red and yellow tomatoes. The peppers and tomatoes are “mini” sized. Good enough for on a salad.

While we are under another Winter weather Alert since yesterday, this spot has not gotten much snow (this time). But it is cold and my driveway was a bit icy. Just tossed salt on it and walkway.

My Winter Solstice tree is up and the lights are on. Most of the decorations are from the 21 days of an Advent calendar a friend from Florida gifted me. I think this is the first time I actually have done the one box a day thing.

I know I had an Advent Xmas truck a year or two ago. But I bought that myself for the truck, and I seem to recall it had stale candy in the boxes which I tossed.

Well, that’s it for today. Do enjoy knowing that sunshine is coming back. and … Enjoy Life