- Working on Saturday isn’t bad when you consider how much we got accomplished.
- Canning tally for the weekend:
- 5 pints of peach jam
- 4 quarts of peach pie filling / cobbler mix
- 4 quarts of bread and butter pickles
- 4 quarts of dill pickles
- 3 quarts of garlic jalapeno dill pickles
- Awaiting processing:
- 1/3 bushel of fresh peaches, probably into pie filling
- 1 – 2 pounds of fresh green beans
- Cucumbers are coming in from the garden every day. Hope the kids like pickles and salads.
- 4 quarts of fresh frozen blueberries, probably into preserves
- 3 quarts of fresh frozen strawberries, probably into preserves
- Peach pie filling is a lot less work than peach jam.
- We had to can the peaches as soon as they came off the tree, because they don’t keep. Of course, the tree decided that its fruit needed to ripen on the hottest weekend in Louisville since 1936.
- Nothing makes a hot, muggy day better than standing over a couple kettles filled with boiling water and other concoctions which require constant stirring.
- Sweet corn is starting to come in at our source. We have to decide if we want to freeze or can. I’m leaning toward freezing.
- I don’t take hints. If you want/need me to do something, asking me where the tools are to do it is not going to get me to get off my butt and take care of it.
- Amazingly enough, 20 minutes after being asked to do said task, it was done.
- I told Irish Woman about the new boomstick that will be joining the family in a month or so. She took it pretty well.
- The temperature outside dropped about 20 degrees in an hour, but we have yet to see any rain at Casa de Oso.
- Aw crap moment of the weekend – Putting my carry gun away this evening and realizing I no longer had my spare magazine on me.
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- Found it within minutes, crammed down in the folds of my chair.
- Pucker factor was high, but I’ll learn from it.
Thoughts on the Weekend
Posted by daddybear71 on July 8, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/07/08/thoughts-on-the-weekend-13/
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