This is the schedule that I try to follow throughout the year. It helps keep me online as to what and when I need to get things done since I get busy and scatterbrained. This way I am not at the last minute thinking about what needs to be done, and I have time to plan a little better. Although I am already behind not really sure what happened in January to get so off track so now I have to try and play catch up.
January
- Make soap and cleaning supplies for 6 months
- Can soups, beef vegetable, chicken potato, beef mushroom, green chili, burrito filling.
- Tax forms for Daycare parents
- Citrus,( Lemons, Grapefruit, and Oranges), canned, frozen, jams,
- Citrus Peels, candied, dehydrated
February
- Plan Garden
- Order Seeds
- Start taxes
- Finish Potatoes, dehydrated, froze, canned and soups
- Cattlemen’s meeting and banquet
- Fire Dept. Banquet
- Community Centers Chili Supper and Pie Auction
- Lotions, balms, salves, deodorants etc made for 6 months
March
- Andy’s Birthday
- Start seeds inside
- Start calving
- Start Kidding
- Make soaps and cleaning supplies for 6 months ( I try to do these during the slow months to last all year.
- Plan yard and play area.
April
- Spring Cleaning
- Start cleaning garden and herb areas
- Brand calves
- Animal sprays made
- E.O. Blends made
- Dandelions started, Jelly, tinctures and dried
May
- Chicken coop ready for spring
- Start planting garden
- Build new beds and get the old beds ready to plant
- Backyard put together patio furniture, flowers, etc.
- Fairy and Gnome Gardens set up
- Front yard and front porch put together patio furniture etc.
- Brand the last of the calves
- Last of dandelions taken care.
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pineapples canned ( they go on sale the end of April or first of May)
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Start on Strawberries
June
- Joleen and Katies Birthdays will have a family Birthday dinner
- Strawberries, dried, frozen, jams, syrup and canned
- Rhubarb, dried, frozen, jams, and canned
- Finish planting Garden
- Camper cleaned and ready for summer
- Start A.I.ing and breeding cows
- Postcards sent for music on the river the 4th of July
July
- Music on the river
- Can jams freeze and dry berries
- Start working on zucchini, jelly, fruit snacks, apple pie filling, dehydrated and frozen
- replant lettuce spinach, radishes etc.
- Harvest Mullin and Yarrow
- Start of fair
- Move camper to fairgrounds
August
- End of Fair
- Olathe music festival
- Get sweet corn
- Sweet corn dry, freeze, can
- Dry corn husk and corn silk
- Corn silk tinctures
- Peppers froze, canned, dried,
- Start tomatoes, Rotel, salsa, sauce, stewed
- Invitations made for Labor Day Music
- Green Chili, roasted, canned, froze, and dehydrated
- Start picking pine nuts
September
- Labor Day music festival
- Dry Herbs
- Tinctures started
- Old herbs cleaned out and replaced with new
- Fire cider started
- Cough syrup started
- Christmas list made
- Homemade spice mixes
- Cattlemen’s picnic
October
- Pumpkins froze, canned and dehydrated
- Pumpkin bread, cookies in freezer
- Apples, canned froze dried, apple pie jam, apple butter
- Fall decorations put up inside and out
- Back and front yards ready for winter
- Gardens cleaned up and ready for winter
- Tomatoes covered
- Put up last of garden produce
- Wood stove ready for winter
- Hunting
- Hopefully processing some Elk and Deer meat
- Fall deep clean
- Family pictures taken
November
- Start Christmas gifts not already started
- Get Potatoes, onions, and pumpkins from NAPI
- Pumpkins canned and dehydrated
- Pumpkin seeds roasted
- Get leftover sunflowers from friends farm after they harvest
- Make soaps
- Christmas cards and newsletters ready to mail
- Can meat from hunting
- Take down fall decorations
- Put up Christmas decorations inside and out
- Order fruit from FFA
- Finish Christmas shopping
December
- Finish Christmas decorating
- Mail Christmas cards and newsletters
- Finish gifts and wrapping
- Make cookies and bread’s for Christmas
- Fire Dept Christmas party
- Family Christmas Dinner and party
- Daycare Christmas party