I’ve had a remarkably productive week. Painted 3 paintings so far in my personal “30 paintings in 30 days” challenge, plus managed to produce three videos, answer questions at the Mother Earth News Online Summit, feed the pumpkin vines and plant some more, pot up fruit trees… whew!

My little painting for day 2

And did I tell you all I’ve decided to participate in the National Novel Writing Month competition this year?

Yep, I’m writing a novel over the month of November and the goal is 50k words in 30 days. I started on Tuesday and have passed 11,000 words already.

It’s been a great week.

Video Roundup

In case you missed it, Rachel demonstrated how to roast a pumpkin and shares some of her favorite ways to prepare one for the table:

And today I posted a video on a tin can cutworm canceller I hope will preserve my young pumpkin sprouts:

I am sick of the cutworms killing all the young plants. I’m trying this first and we’ll see how it goes. This video also has a vicious anti-cutworm battle rap at the end after the credits.

Mother Earth News Online Summit Day 5

Day five is live and running. Baking bread, caring for chickens, solar cooking… plenty of good material airing today – sign up here.

Posting Paintings

Since I’m sure a lot of you aren’t particularly interested in my outdoor landscape painting challenge, I won’t be posting those paintings here as I go.

Instead, I’m putting them over at my on-again-off-again art blog here.

Have a great weekend, everyone!