I had a wonderful day off today. I had a bonus day off since I worked last Saturday. The day started off with something I rarely do. After the boys left for school- I went back to bed and slept for another 2 hours! I must have really needed it since I can rarely sleep during the day unless I'm sick. I have been running ragged for the past two weeks and for the last week on 6 or less hours of sleep per night trying to get everything done. I needed to catch up!
After I woke I cleaned the kitchen because I knew I had to clear the decks for the afternoon's projects. V and I ran some errands over lunch and when we got home I started saucing! I started off with a straight tomato/pepper/onion sauce that became part of this evening's lasagna. And then, I made another large pot of sauce that I boiled down and spiced up to make pizza sauce. This is a new one for me. It tasted really good and I've got some extra in the fridge that we'll try for on pizza on Sunday or Monday night for dinner. But I've got 10 lovely little half-pint jars of thick, spicy sauce cooling on the counter. The recipe I used said to put it into pint jars but that seems like so much. We would never use a full pint at a time. Usually when I make pizza, even with the store bought cans, I always have left overs. So half pints should do fine. I can't wait to try it out.
The weather here has been fall-like. We were at about 50F this morning. Definitely chilly after all the heat of the summer. It struggled to reach the lower 70's today but the sun was glorious. Too bad I was stuck in the kitchen tending bubbling sauce. But the weekend is supposed to be equally fabulous so I hope to be outside most of tomorrow.
V has the foundation done for the greenhouse and we'll probably put it up tomorrow. HOW EXCITING! If you can't tell, I'm pretty pumped about this! He is also working to re-build a little garden shed that we disassembled when we moved in. It was in an inconvenient place and the previous owners had used it for a chicken coop. It's one of those plastic-paneled jobs that we have kept all the bits to, just haven't figured out where and when until now. It will go outside the fence at the North end of the garden to house garden tools, wheelbarrow, tiller and lawnmower.
Slowly but surely things are coming together. V is finishing work on the basement. I finally have a ceiling and insulation in my sewing room. There is only one basement window left to replace so we're finally winding down. It will take quite a bit more time for the finish work but things are starting to be finished. It's only taken three and a half years!
That's really great that you could crawl back into bed this morning and get some much-needed sleep. And, as you say, you were really running on empty so I'm sure those couple of extra hours went a long way toward your good day today. You sure are getting a lot of canning done this year. You're setting the standards pretty high for the rest of us!
ReplyDeleteI'm actually surprised at how much I've canned. Last year was such a dismal harvest and I didn't have great hopes due to the drought and heat. But the tomatoes have outdone themselves in the past month. I've been picking 4-5 gallons of tomatoes every other day so I've got to do something with them. I like fresh tomatoes but even I can't eat that many! I do think things are starting to slow down. I only picked 3 gallons last time! I need to pick today so we'll see what that brings.
DeleteI'm glad you are getting some nice fall weather, it's starting to cool off here too thankfully!
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