Week 25: 6/21/2020 - 6/27/2020

I've been fighting a summer cold all week and I'm behind on a couple of things. All the same it was a productive week. 

I've started laying paths in the garden. This time I'm putting pea gravel down and laying edging all around. It's a slow and laborious process but I'm also finding it very satisfying. I keep forgetting to water though which is becoming a problem.

We are set up to start painting the bathroom but I want Thomas out of the house when I treat the walls with a fungicide film which is slowing me down some.

I've now make two different ramen meals (the real stuff and not the horrible instant packs). It's a type of cooking I'm not as practiced in. In a bowl of ramen, there are a number of individual components that must be prepared separately. Each individual component is relatively straight forward and easy to prepare but the difficulty is in having all the components ready at the same time and putting the bowls together. Now that I've done it a couple times, the process feels less intimidating but it's still a juggling act. I have enough of this first batch of base to try another two ramen meals to practice with which is exciting.

For the next week I really want to finish the Little House on the Prairie books and really focus on writing. 

The List:

1. The Science of Good Cooking by Cooks Illustrated (Nonfiction)
2. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Non-YA)
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Non-YA)
5. The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller (nonfiction)
6. Seeing the Spectrum by  Robert Rozma (nonfiction)
7. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Finished 6/22/2020)
8. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
12. The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder