Back at blogging and some updates

I can't believe it's been almost 5 months since I posted here! That wasn't quite planned but I guess there were other things to do besides blogging. I really want to keep up with my blog but sometimes it's just a bit difficult. 

Despite our summer break, we're in the thick of it! With abundance of summer produce, there's so much to do. 

Homemake-y updates: 

We home butchered a goat. 

My father in law gave us a box containing well over 10 kg (22 lb) tomatoes, which he in return also got from someone but didn't know what to do with it. I turned the majority of it into marinara sauce, which is now in the freezer.(and a bit stayed in the fridge to use within a few days)

Also made a big pot of fig jam, my husband's all time favourite jam. 

I finally found the courage to make my own sourdough starter. It's still intimidating to use it, I must admit, but at least now I have the starter... 

Made homemade onion powder with onion peels. 

Rendered a big bag of chicken skins and I now have a lovely jar full of rendered chicken fat! 

Cooked a lot from scratch, as usual. 

General life updates: 

My oldest daughter finished middle school. Youngest finished her second to last year of elementary school. 

We have a new cat to take care of, a beautiful Siamese girl. She's VERY talkative- I had to get used to that amount of meowing! She has a defect in her tail - it has a bend in it, which is probably the reason why she was roaming around in the streets. Unfortunately, some people want to get rid of "imperfect" pets, and it's not very common to see breed cats on the streets. 

A very sad one: just one week ago, our ginger cat died 😥 We all loved him dearly and are heartbroken. He lived here for three years and a half and I'm just so grateful we could give him the best home possible for him for that long, and save him from the streets. He was buried in our garden this past Friday. The other cat doesn't really understand that her bigger brother is gone, although she's coping quite well with it, but it's noticeable she's missing him a lot. 

Health updates: 

Just finished a two weekly high iron diet. My iron was super low, and i'm feeling much better now. I just don't want to see liver for the next couple of months, lol (I actually do like liver but after eating it every day for two weeks long... it certainly gets boring!). 

I'm steadily losing weight, so far lost 27 kg and I'm not there yet, but certainly proud of this accomplishment. 

I started walking again. I walked daily but then fot busy with other things. Which is now excuse, so I really try to make time for walking daily, even if it's just 20 minutes. My muscles were so stiff without walking (I have fybromyalgia) and I definitely feel better with walking daily, even if it's not a lot- I probably don't reach the 10.000 steps a day, but it's better than nothing. 

I think that's it for now! Trying to blog a bit more regularly from now on 👋