• Every sub = 1 hair ornament to celebrate the holidays
• I have something to **Announce** tomorrow!!
• Schedule for the stream this week: Tuesday - Ashes of Creation. Wednesday: Phasmo for xmas event. Friday - Warframe
• I'll be giving away plat during the Warframe stream
• I will be taking off Christmas
• We have pretty much completed Enshrouded except building, which I will do that off stream when I can. I need to finish my cellar 

Thank you all so much for spending your 2025 with me! In 2026, I plan to continue to create fun content for you in gaming and also branching more out with my Gardening content. I can't wait to see what new games come out next year. I hope you all have a nice holidays and wonderful Christmas!!

The cat grass is growing! I started the cat grass with some soil in a seedling tray under growlights in doors. It sprouted after 3 days. After 1 week the grass was growing fuller. At 9 days I put it down on the floor so yami can start eating his grass.
I started a new batch so he can have a full supply of cat grass that continues to grow. Any parts he doesn't eat with give back to the garden to make compost. I am also using it as a cover crop essentially for the old soil I had in pots over the summer.

I still had Habanero peppers on the plant that weren't ripened when the weather started to get colder. The peppers will continue to ripen off the plant as long as it started the ripening process. 

How to ripen peppers off the plant: Remove the peppers off the plant. Put them in an area where they will get sunlight like a warm windowsill or under a grow light. I put these under my grow light in my indoor greenhouse. You want the area to be warm indoors around 65F-70F. Our Apartment is set to 69F (NICE) and have the heat on in the winter so they get nice and toasty. You don't want to put them in the fridge otherwise the ripening process will stop. They need heat to ripen. 

You can see they started to change color and ripen. The full green one might not ripen, but I will wait and see. I don't really know what a green habenaro tastes like. Probably more like a green pepper with some spice or unripe jalapeno where it definitely tastes "green"

Yami has been missing our cat grass, I bought some extra trays and a big bag of cat grass seeds. I spinkled the seeds and put it under grow lights where I will keep it indoors for him to snack on. 

I have cut some speariment and pineapple mint to create new plants. This is called propagation where you can get free plants from the cuttings. Mint is super resilient and grows really fast. The roots are taking over the small pot so I wanted to make more plants to keep them healthy. I will also do this with the chocolate mint also.

How to propegate mint:
Step 1: Cut a healthy part of the mint long enough to add in a small container like this. 

Step 2: Pull off the leaves carefully that will be submerged into the water.

Step 3: Add them in a container with water then put them under grow lights or a sunny windowsill. 

Step 4: Once multiple roots start to appear put them in a pot with new potting soil.

- Enshrouded all week until we finish the content. Then switch to Warframe
- Will probably be playing Warframe for the Operation Blood of Perita
- Yami's Gma bought him a 12 day advent calendar cat toys. We will open them each day on stream. 
- Nothing much else to report this week

We had our 1st frost then our 1st snow this month!

Here is what survived during our 1st frost - lettuce, mustard, strawberries and nasturtium flowers.

We then got a couple inches of snow and the plants didn't survive were - lettuce and the nasturtiums. 

The strawberries survived and the mustard looked a lil sad at first then bounced back. I wanted to see how cold hardy they were and didn't cover them on purpose. I was planning to have some lettuce and other greens covered in the winter for winter sowing, but I don't think we get enough light and sunlight hours where the balcony is located. If they received more sun I would try it out. 

I have made Lemon Drop Pepper Powder. These give off a nice citrusy spice flavor to anything you add. The peppers are on a spicier side too. 

Here are the steps to dry peppers:

Step 1:

Air Dry or dehydrate your peppers. Air drying took a couple weeks compared to dehydrating for 24 hours. I layed the peppers on my dehydrating rack and had them air dry until they were crispy. I didn't dehydrate them since our apartment would smell like spicy peppers and burn our eyes. I'd recommend dehydrating outside. You can also hang dry them. 

Step 2:

Once they are dry, I grind them up in the coffee grinder. Link here for the one I use. Works great for grinding up spices. Since they are whole peppers I break the pepper in half and try to shake out all the seeds. You can deseed the peppers first by cutting them in half and removing the seeds before drying. This could be more time consuming. 

Step 3:

After they are grinded up into a powdered form I take a funnel and add them to the jar. You can also make pepper flakes.

The Garden has officially went to sleep for the winter, but not everything. The indoor herb shelf is looking great in my lil greenhouse. I have parsley, basil, chives, oregano, chocolate mint, spearmint, Pineapple mint and started seeds for rosemary, thyme and lemonbalm. The lemonbalm hasn't germinated for a couple of weeks so I might need to wait until I can start them outside in spring. I tried the cold stratification trick where you put the seeds on a paper towel then put it in the fridge. 

The Habanero pepper plant is like why go dormant when I can keep growing 🤣