Mustard greens are good, if they are young, and tender. I love getting the ones when they thin the crop. Several of those recipes will lend themselves to ham chunks, and the meatballs, like you're doing. I've even gently fried Butterball turkey sausage slices, and tossed that into a few dishes. It gives that little bit of smokey flavor, and enhances the taste of several dishes, without overpowering it.
The grands did virtual schooling this year, and it fell to me to be their learning coach. Their mother had started with it, but she graduated her nursing course, and is employed full time now. She really likes her job, and for the most part, enjoys it.
It's a lot of work, and very challenging being their learning coach, and taking care of them all day, every day. Last year, the curriculum was much better, and things were set up so much better. This year, they did away with the old virtual school curriculum, and the new one leaves a LOT to be desired, and that's putting it mildly.
The chickens are doing fine, and the duck is spoiled rotten. Dh put in a garden. He put a fence around it this year too. We seem to have a bumper crop of rabbits. When everything in the garden began sprouting, they came along, and ate the sprouts down to the ground. They wiped it out overnight. He put the fence up, and re-planted where needed. We've had some rain the past few days, so that's helped get the garden off to a good start.
Dh is fully retired now. Some days he deals with it ok. Other days, he doesn't. He's talking about going back to work again, next year. He has to take a year off, before he can go back. Maybe he'll have adjusted by then, maybe not. Time will tell.
