My Actifit/Ulog Report Card: October 27 2018

My California

Today, I am showing you My California. Pretty much all my Actifit activities are an expression of where I live.

So, why not combine the “mycalifornia” contest with the Actifit Ulog.

Tomatoes are for sure something I love about California. The Tomato season is long - as a matter of fact, I have some young plants that are just getting started to produce some fruit. If I am lucky, they will do so all winter long.

The tomatoes were chopped for breakfast to go along with these delicious greens freshly picked one minute before taking this picture.

There is chard; Malabar, perpetual, and New Zealand spinach; Amaranth; Kale, and more in this mix.

Chopped and combined with some onions and garlic it looks like this.

Add the tomatoes and cook a little longer.

To make it all super delicious and a most satisfying breakfast, ask your chickens politely to lay some eggs. Lucky for me, they did. Here is the complete meal.

I don't mean to make you all jealous who already are dealing with ice and snow - but this is for the "mycalifornia" contest and a fresh meal out of the garden at the end of October is one of the things I love about living in Southern California.

Tummy full, it was time to work in the garden. One of my projects was to finish building a compost pile. Right now, I have too many other projects to do the hot compost with regular turning and such (even though that is an excellent workout). The way I am setting them up is more of a giant Lasagne bed.

I am using a metal dog run as the cage and it is filled with layers of all kinds of compost ingredients. While I was working in this part of the garden, I also took care of the Bermuda grass that had grown out of proportion. First I attempted to weed whack it - but found it much easier to pull it by hand. It was like moving a gigantic carpet.

I don't know if you can see, but the grass was at least that long and dense everywhere. The chickens were quite happy to receive a huge trash can full. Tomorrow, I will chop it up in their run so they can scratch it up and compost it for me.

The top will be covered with a layer of earth and I am going to plant in it. You see the beginnings of the earth cover. When finished, I will place several buckets with holes as a water system and am going to plant Artichokes and a cover crop. The watering of the plants will keep the pile moist and earthworms will come and eat it all up and turn it into beautiful compost.

All that shoveling and wheelbarrow transporting of soil made me hungry. I worked outside until dark.

By that time, I was really hungry and we opted to go for the super fast and easy meal - a burger. I have organic beef patties already formed in the freezer (thank you, Costco). It is super easy to throw a couple into a pan, slice some cheese to put on top after turning them.

I don't eat bread right now, so I use lettuce leaves to hold it together. I love mayonnaise as you can see, some mustard, ketchup, sliced tomatoes, and onions make a burger yummy!!

Add the burger patty on top.

Fold the lettuce over and you are ready to eat!

It is a little messy - but who cares! It was delicious.

I ended the day with a little dancing since I wanted a few more activity points. Shoveling dirt makes you tired and all of that, but it doesn't boost the count.

@geekorner had dropped this awesome dancing song in a discord for us. It is great for moving. Give it a try :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=224&v=RkEXGgdqMz8

Daily Activity,Dancing