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canning, canning, canning

I need to check where I"m at in my cycle. I was in a very foul mood last night and it hadn't improved by this am.;( I realized last night that I am supposed to go to town 8 times in the next 8 days!!!!!! And once to the 'big' town! It's $8/trip to town! I'm telling mom that I simply can't meet her and the geriatric club that she totes around to lunch next week. It's simply totally unnecessary. I'm sure the little old ladies will guilt me......... I do not want to miss my crop tomorrow, I feel strongly that the boys should attend church youth groups, 3 days are soccer (I was THRILLED that Mat and Joey practice AT THE EXACT SAME TIME! But Joey has practice on Thur as well and Mat doesn't. I thought they were only to have 1 practice and 1 game a week....) and then I have snack for MOMS on Wed and HS library. I knew things were going to be very hectic when all of this started and I'm grateful for skipping the HS co-op (it's about $15 round trip in gas), but in some ways, I think that might have been time better spent. I don't know. This is just the serious downside of living in the sticks. 

So I got up this am and worked out. I then hit the salsa hard. I did at least stop to think that I could re-can the 4 jars that did not seal last week. (An aside: Dh came home w/about 3/4 of a jar of salsa last night and THREW IT AWAY! Why? Cuz it sat out for a bit! I'm like IT"S SALSA! It's made to sit out 'for a bit'! I was just thinking of all the tomatoes that I chopped.........chopping them in large quantities eats thru my skin on my hands--thankfully that has not happened yet this year.) So I put those jars in the canner to 'warm up' and canned 14 more pints. So far only 3 haven't sealed, but 2 might yet. Oh, I also picked tomatoes IN THE RAIN to get as much done today as possible. I cut up 2 cantaloupe and ate that in between messes for bfast. I also made chocolate zucchini bars (recipe on my blog) to take to the crop tomorrow. Of course, I was rifling thru the frig (I have 102394871039247 large yogurt containers in there and I have to sift thru them all to find the right one!LOL) and found the dessert dip and realized that I could've saved myself making the chocolate bars.........oh well, the boys are out of snack food so this should serve them well. Then I made chicken salad. And had no hard boiled eggs and made the mistake of calling DH to ask if he liked eggs in it or not. Yes. Great, so the eggs are boiled and cooling so I can add those.

The boys were GREAT about doing school this am, too. I need to look over an LA quiz from Mat and that's it.

I'm trying to think positive--that all of this food I'm putting up now will help offset gas prices. But I"m super frustrated w/the garden as well. I've done 31 pints of salsa (one of which is now gone...grrrrrrrrrrr) and have stuff to make 18 more. That's only 49 nad I usually do 56 pints a year. Thankfully DH didn't find the 18 pints from last year so I should be OK if I can get enuf tomatoes to finish those off. I really need to do more juice. I've only got 21 qt (20 that I just canned last week). We're going to be eating lots of soup this winter.

Sorry this is such a grumpy post. I'm done for the day and have nothing to do tomorrow so I am hoping that my mood improves.;)

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08:59, 2008-Sep-12 .. Posted by Vicki

You will be better tomorrow..you`ve done waaay tooooo much and I think you are just plain tired! Relax with a warm bath, a book and a cup o` tea and write me in the morning!
That Girl