Life in Tee Harbor, Alaska

Nice Day Off Work

I took a vacation day from work today - so I got paid to work on my projects here at home - very cool!  Wish I could do that everyday...  oh well...  :o)

I made great progress on the chicken fence today.  I have all but one hole dug for the pier blocks that will be holding the posts.  That last one requires me to move the temporary fence.  I also finished painting the posts and lumber that I will use to build the fence - picked up a gallon of weatherproofing stain that was in the oops pile at Home Depot - great brown color and it was just $5!

This afternoon it started raining - real rain, not just sprinkles as it has been.  My poor holes are flooded right now!  I need to get the gutter on the chicken house and the rain barrel set up... one project at a time though!  I hope the rain lets up tomorrow morning so I can get out and work on the fence.

It was a little chilly in the house, so I built a fire and now it is all toasty warm.  I bought some Black Cherry Nectar at the store yesterday - organic and was about to expire, so it was on sale.  I used it to make two batches of jelly - got 8 12-oz jars.  They are on the counter right now cooling.  I really hope that they set up since the pectin I used said it is best by Nov 2006!  We will see...

Ok I figured this out!

11:14 PM, Monday, July 7, 2008 .. Posted by Anonymous

I have been trying to leave you a comment for days but I couldnt figure out the comment section till now hehe. I even wrote you a letter quess you can ignore that now. I just wanted to say love your blog look forward to reading more of it! I am a wanna be alaskan but only in the summers :P

Jelly & pectin

6:49 AM, Tuesday, July 8, 2008 .. Posted by Anonymous

If the jelly doesn't set just use it as a syrup over pancakes or waffles. Would probably be great in a fruit smoothie too. Love your blog.

So much done!

7:46 AM, Wednesday, July 9, 2008 .. Posted by Cousin Sarah

You are just plugging along in your to-do list and being quite industrious! I agree with an earlier poster about using the resulting product of non-setting up jelly as syrup. I did that a couple of years ago with a batch of grape jelly that didn't set and it was even good over shortcake or vanilla ice cream.