Wow it's Tuesday right?

It's been a wild ride at work this week. Yesterday I was in meetings from 10 until 4 with about 25 minutes for lunch. It was all about furniture, furniture finishes, and furniture arrangements. Today...well today was a mixed bag. A bit of HR, a lot of prep for the All College meeting tomorrow, and not a lot of support. I was about 2 ticks from tears for the greater part of the day. The stress level is really high right now. I stayed until 5:30 which made me a bit late for my evening's activities with Trudi and Marian. I kvetched with Trudi and Marian about it while I ate my dinner but then I completely forgot about work and immersed myself in canning and, of all things, RuPaul's Drag Race.

Sunday my parents and I pruned the elderberry trees and harvested the fruit. (Yes they ARE trees- I don't care that the books say they are bushes that only grow to 18 feet- tell that to the two 30+ footers in the back yard!) We got two 5-gallon buckets of fruit and Trudi, Marian and my task tonight was to steam the juice out of the berries. Well, we'd aimed for making jelly but the steaming process finished at about 11:15 so I'll leave the jelly making for Marian and Trudi to do tomorrow. I didn't take any pictures or count how many pints of juice we got. Maybe Trudi can tell us or provide pictures.

I also had 2 1-gallon buckets of tomatoes which we blanched, pealed, and sliced for canning. I managed to can 9 pints from those tomatoes!

Now it's well past my bedtime! Tomorrow is another busy day. The meeting starts at 8:30 and ends at 4:00 and I'll have to help with set up and tear down. So, goodnight all.