I found strawberries for a great price, and bought 12lbs. I spent the day making three batches of low-sugar jam. I think I ended up with 6 pints and 13 half pints. Hopefully that will be enough to get us through the year. Between PB&J's and yogurt, we go through a lot of jam. We also have a bowl full of sliced strawberries to eat.
I find that I feel less overwhelmed by things when I've been getting stuff done. A shelf full of strawberry jam certainly doesn't hurt (but drat, we're out of regular bread, guess what I'll be doing tomorrow). I finished the last slice with a thick layer of the jam foam (I love Jam Foam...for a random flashback of jam foam drama, and a description of what jam foam is if you don't know, see here),
In other good news, I now have a ceiling fan in my bedroom (and really nice sheets, I can't wait to go to bed tonight!) so the warm weather isn't going to make it hard to go to sleep and I won't have thoughts about turning my AC before my mom does.
My tomato seedlings are getting bigger and bigger and are doing well outside. They've been out all day so far with no signs of sunburn (although it has been overcast) so hopefully they're about done with the hardening off process and I can plant them after this next storm passes. Saturday maybe?
The surviving chicks seem to be doing well, they enjoyed a nice treat of strawberry stems today and were very happy.
Soccer practice & Game tonight, and then I can crash.
Lunch with friends tomorrow, then a play date (and bread making somewhere in there).
Soccer game on saturday, and maybe I'll take the kids and go for a bike ride. I might make it through the weekend!
5 comments:
Have I said before how much I want to be you when I grow up? Because I do.
I've thought the same thing about you!
You need to come here and I'll give you canning lessons, and I need to come there (several times a week) to get in super-great shape!
Sounds like some very productive time. I'm very impressed!
Yum! It looks delicious! How do you get it all done?
I remember strawberry jam foam. Mmmmm! It was a reward after a day of helping mom with the canning. We didn't want anything else for dinner - just bread spread with jam foam.
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