We read to our granddaughter before her nap most days (while the baby is getting put down for HIS nap). My part in this was being clever enough to enough to marry him 39 years before the printer went askew.ġ1. He then installed it, thus saving a new printer for $350. Len figured out it was the print head and ordered a new one for $150. Our printer is old, and the black ink stopped printing. Meyers Clean Day Bar Soap we started using in March is not even half gone yet. (I don't wear it.) Hang it on the front porch later and its dry by morning.ĩ. I like a goal of doing less.Ĩ.5 When I come in from walking or working super-duper sweaty, I take my hat into the shower with me. I am trying to do fewer loads of laundry to save $ and water. It’s been a while since I jumped up off the ground that fast.Ĩ. Tried to thin and weed it only to discover that biting ants have moved in there. Needed plants under the hydrangea so I moved some oregano which is now growing gangbusters. It was invented for QEII’s coronation in 1953. But if you like curry flavors it’s awesome. (The Coronation Chickpea salad was behind a paywall, so I included it in full.) These salads are high in protein, less expensive than slabs of meat, delicious, and kind of show-offy… The Coronation chickpea recipe calls for chutney and almonds and dried apricots which is obvs, not inexpensive. I discovered some low-to-no cook salad recipes and I’ve included the URL’s for the recipes below. Bought farro, buckwheat, cans of chickpeas, and barley.

Yeast is back to regular price, so I bought some. Cool tea is (almost) as nice with dinner as wine. I like coffee in the morning and I don’t need caffeine in the evening. Knowing the first thing to do when one is that hot slows down smash and grab craziness.Ĥ. Keeping one Gatorade (at a time) in the fridge so that when I come inside totally hot, I can grab it right away and sit down and drink some. There’s just two of us and we drink one pot of coffee per day so how did we go through 17 mugs in one day? Paying more attention to our wastrel mug grabbing habit.ģ. Len says this is like potato chips for birds.Ģ. It doesn’t decimate weeds fast, but it slows them down while not giving anyone cancer. Spread salt from our water softener stash on weeds in the cracks of the driveway. Several of these frugal ideas are related to steamy weather.ġ. It’s 80-90 degrees, the humidity is tropical, and the weather guys are saying it might be like this for two weeks. I made this list that might spark some of your ideas, too. But here I am, at home, trying to live responsibly, carefully, and creatively Just like you. This Covid pandemic crisis and the racial injustice movement are so important. I haven’t made a Mindful Chicken list in a long time.

Being thoughtful about how choices affect our community and our earth.

I call them Mindful Chickens because they are about: Other people call them “frugal things I did lately”. (Thanks, KJR, for the funny fluffy chicken photo!)

Mindful chicken