Onward....

It's been a stressful couple of weeks just due to the amount of things I need to cram into my time and the lack of weekend time to do it.
My church convention is next week and I usually like to get some new clothes sewn- it's always been the time to buy the new "school" clothes, as it were, and I like to have fresh new things.  However, with the increase in events that I have been attending and a number of family obligations I haven't had much time to do the sewing and keep up on the other household things that have to happen this time of year (Gardening, harvesting, canning, cleaning, weeding....)  Tuesday, Marian, Trudi, and I canned 75ish pounds of peaches for my pantry.  I still had a box to put in jars (but they were pealed) and a box that had to be completely proccessed when they left but it was very helpful to have them there and I allowed me to finish before midnight.





We had a lot of problems with breakage but I think it's because the peaches were cold and the syrup was only warm so the jars were too cold when they went into the water bath.  When I started soaking the jars in hot water until they went into the bath, there were fewer broken ones.  The nice thing about canning outside, besides keeeping the heat out, is that, the next afternoon, I just took a hose to the jars to rinse off the sticky sugar and wiped them down with a towel before bringing them into the house.  The peaches weren't the sweetest I'd ever eaten but they'll be fine after soaking in the light syrup. Last year's peaches from Hentzes were much better.  I need to try to remember that.  I also forgot that used honey last year and it was delicious.  Oh well.  It's all good food.

I currently have 4 1 gallon ziplocks full of green beans that need to be pickled but we didn't have time for that.  I think they will be ok until next week.

We are also celbrating my cousin Andrea's 40th birthday and my niece's first birthday this week.  We had a big party for Andrea last weekend with 50+ in attendance.  My brother and family ran up for the occasion.


I'm hopping on a plane at 6:45 tonight to fly to SF to spend the weekend with Lillyana and family. I'll fly back Sunday night. It's supposed to be cooler in Vallejo than it is here.

I originally had Wednesday-Friday off work next week but I was stressing out so much about everything that had to be done before I left on Wednesday afternoon that I decided to ask for Monday and Tuesday off too.  That gave me some time to breathe and decreased the heart palpitations and panic attacks!  I still have to make food for four days because I can't eat in the communal kitchen at convention due to my allergies and I want to, at least, finish the dress I'm working on.  I'd like to make another or a skirt or two but we'll see how the time plays out.

Yesterday I sent an email off inquiring about becoming a foster parent.  I don't know if I have the mental fortitude or the circumstances to make this possible but I want to look into it.  Maybe I can do respite and emergency care.  We'll see how that goes, anyway.  There is a whole process for approval to get through.

Now, I need to go back to working.  I've got short timer's disease today.  I just want to start my vacation.  First, though, I have to get through this 97 degree day without AC.