Words, Words, Words

I can’t BELIEVE it has been a week since I last posted! THAT isn’t like me! :-) I have been SO ridiculously busy lately-it is insane. I was left with very little time to do anything extra-and that meant computer time. :-( So much to tell!!!!!

The sun awarded us with warmth this week and so I made frequent trips to the garage (where the washing machine is), to the clothesline, to the bedrooms and then back to the garage in a feeble attempt to vanquish that dirty laundry monster. I am still not caught up-but I am at the mercy of the weather since we haven’t yet been able to get the dryer fixed. I tried to get 3-4 loads done a day and I got a lot done. But laundry is something that ALWAYS piles up-especially when you have company, so the piles have replaced themselves once again. Today is a ‘sprinkly’ day so I guess I get the day off from laundry duty. I am hoping Matt will hang a line in the basement as a last resort. I STILL can’t do any of my sewing though-since the fabric has not been pre-shrunk.

Matt’s parents came out for the weekend so I had to red up the house for that (I hadn’t even cleaned from the birthday party so it was a job!) and the kitchen was BRIMMING with garden goodness…from my garden and the Amish gardens down the road. I got ½ bushel of peaches, tomatoes and some cucumbers from them. Oh-and they had gorgeous hot peppers (about 7 inches long) priced 10 for 1.00. I got 30. Produce is not something that can sit FOREVER-so that was a priority too. Especially the peaches. We had a clan of fruit flies sitting leisurely at their white-clothed dinner tables, ringing for their supper before I had even bought those peaches! As it so often does, when it rains it pours.

I was able to make salsa (my VERY own recipe-well, a little bit of this a little bit of that…I didn’t write it down because frankly, I thought it might be kind of gross. Now that Matt tells me it is DELICIOUS-I feel kind of bad I won’t be able to recreate it.) Among the other treasures: jardenieri, brandied peaches, vanilla peach syrup, pinapple topping, honey-spice orange slices, zucchini relish, and spaghetti sauce.

This weeks canning to-do:
Salsa
Chili sauce
Taco Sauce
Bread and Butter Pickles
Garlic Dill Pickles
SOMETHING with hot peppers
And ONE MORE batch of zucchini relish (I LOVE IT SO!)

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This week is the local fair-and tomorrow is the drop off for entries. I am going to look around to see if there is anything around here I can enter. And maybe bake something for it. I would like to enter some canned goods. We’ll see how much I have time for. I have a BAD habit of biting off more than I can chew….