The cold front arrived sometime during the wee hours of the morning. It was 30° and very windy when I got up. Yesterday it was 70°. I hate these fluctuations....and so do the plants outside.
Yesterday down --- to ----earth blog had an interesting subject, Organization. I do organize my days, often not formally with calendars and lists but in my mind each day I think about what I want to get done that day. I think it is a very good way to get things accomplished. I often do make actual lists......and check off when I get each thing accomplished. My Iowa sis makes a lot of fun of me and my bookkeeping tendencies! I admit it freely; it is just who I am. (I also research books I read, the authors and if it is a historical based one....I research that and read up on it......she thinks I am nuts doing that too!)
OK, back to organization.....for today. I always think ahead about what I will fix for dinner so when I am outside I can get what I need from the freezer or the milk house (canned goods, extra milk). I don't like to make unnecessary trips outside in this weather.
I knew this was milking morning. When I came back to the house I brought a jar of warm milk to start yogurt; a cold half gallon for the house, and a jar of apples. I wanted to make a tart for dinner.
Here are the projects for the day: Jar of apples, frozen pie dough; milk is in the pan to heat, Dannon yogurt for a starter measured and waiting. While making the yogurt the pie dough will be thawing.
I use the heating pad, 7 hour method and that is currently culturing and should be finished late this evening.
I made the tart for dinner.
Dinner was a jar of home canned turkey vegetable soup and a slice of the tart. I am loving having these canned, ready-to-heat foods and unfortunately this was my last jar.
Ilene asked me about the cheese peppers so I thought I would show what I did with them. They are very small, probably smaller than they should be because or our dreadful growing season. I normally slice and dice peppers for the freezer but these were very small so I just washed and dried them and dropped them in a large freezer bag. I love using them. 1 or 2 is the perfect size for most dishes. I just run them under the cold water for a bit and then slice them down from top to bottom and then slice or dice.
I also did a bag of hot peppers this same way. I will probably still process the larger bell peppers (if I grow some) the normal way so they won't take up so much space in the freezer.
This afternoon I whipped up (rather roughly) two new hot pads. Mine were getting pretty sorry.
They aren't fancy, but they will work and I won't have to buy two and a kitchen towel (W-M) to get a POTHOLDER!
Yesterday down --- to ----earth blog had an interesting subject, Organization. I do organize my days, often not formally with calendars and lists but in my mind each day I think about what I want to get done that day. I think it is a very good way to get things accomplished. I often do make actual lists......and check off when I get each thing accomplished. My Iowa sis makes a lot of fun of me and my bookkeeping tendencies! I admit it freely; it is just who I am. (I also research books I read, the authors and if it is a historical based one....I research that and read up on it......she thinks I am nuts doing that too!)
OK, back to organization.....for today. I always think ahead about what I will fix for dinner so when I am outside I can get what I need from the freezer or the milk house (canned goods, extra milk). I don't like to make unnecessary trips outside in this weather.
I knew this was milking morning. When I came back to the house I brought a jar of warm milk to start yogurt; a cold half gallon for the house, and a jar of apples. I wanted to make a tart for dinner.
Here are the projects for the day: Jar of apples, frozen pie dough; milk is in the pan to heat, Dannon yogurt for a starter measured and waiting. While making the yogurt the pie dough will be thawing.
I use the heating pad, 7 hour method and that is currently culturing and should be finished late this evening.
I made the tart for dinner.
Dinner was a jar of home canned turkey vegetable soup and a slice of the tart. I am loving having these canned, ready-to-heat foods and unfortunately this was my last jar.
Ilene asked me about the cheese peppers so I thought I would show what I did with them. They are very small, probably smaller than they should be because or our dreadful growing season. I normally slice and dice peppers for the freezer but these were very small so I just washed and dried them and dropped them in a large freezer bag. I love using them. 1 or 2 is the perfect size for most dishes. I just run them under the cold water for a bit and then slice them down from top to bottom and then slice or dice.
I also did a bag of hot peppers this same way. I will probably still process the larger bell peppers (if I grow some) the normal way so they won't take up so much space in the freezer.
This afternoon I whipped up (rather roughly) two new hot pads. Mine were getting pretty sorry.
They aren't fancy, but they will work and I won't have to buy two and a kitchen towel (W-M) to get a POTHOLDER!
