Dental work...

My face became "un-numb" about 10:00 pm but I was left with a whopper of a headache. Today the right side has some puffiness that I can't really explain....There wasn't any trauma during my filling- it was simple, straight forward and only took about 20 minutes. But I also couldn't really explain the white patch that appeared on my cheek while it was numb either. The headache is still there, I just have subdued it with medication.

My dentist is reasonably good. I know that everyone reacts to the anesthetic differently and he was concerned because the tooth was really reactive when he prodded it with the explorer. So he might have been a little over zealous with the anesthetic or I may just be highly reactive to it. Either way it was miserable. The numbness got to a point where it just hurt but there isn't anything anyone can do but let it wear off. I went to bed shortly after 10:00 to sleep off the headache and general achy-ness of my face.

Another day of canning prep...

Today Marian, Trudi and I got together to tackle the three 5-gallon buckets of apples and the 5-gallon bucket of elderberries that Trudi requested. We had quite an operation going. Three peeler/corer/slicers (Ok, mine only peels but it's older than I am!), three, sometimes four people working and several cats looking disgusted. We conquered two buckets of apples and the elderberries (wait that's three empty buckets, how come I only had two in my car....hmmmm). We are freezing the apples until the 2nd when we are planning on a full day of canning to make applesauce. It shouldn't actually take much since we made a small batch in the microwave tonight for a snack.




What do you mean it's plant material? Where is the tuna?!


We ended up with 8 gallon bags of apples from the two buckets.

I also brought a quart of beet pickle juice home and boiled up a dozen eggs. They are now marinating in pickle juice. Yummmm! Pickled eggs!