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Friday, October 5, 2012

Canning and Cleaning

Ahh! Last night I slept like a rock.  Mr. Fix-It had been out of town all week and I never sleep well while he’s gone. Every house has night time noises as it ”settles” at night. The sounds which generally are a comfort & let me nod right off …well, when he’s gone they sound ominous.  So, there was a few nights I was still awake at 3 am. 

Sleep depravation = low productivity. Took me 2 days to can 47 pints of pumpkin..and I’m still not done.  There are 2 more waiting for processing.  I didn’t realize just how much pumpkin you get. I see a lot of bread, muffins & pumpkin pies for dessert this winter!

The peppers all got sliced, diced & loaded in the Excalibur

Fall Prints 001

Mmm, such a fresh aroma that lasts for hours!

The past 2 days I’ve been on another de-cluttering/de-crap-afying mission.  Where does all this stuff come from? I told Mr. Fix-It we need to check for trail cameras on sale and mount them in the closets.  I tell you I think after the last clean out, anything that was left in the closets expanded and multiplied on their own.

Isaiah’s room became the upstairs storage room while we worked on the remodel.  I’d kinda burnt out by the time we were done & wasn’t sure what to do with all the stuff we’d crammed in there. Honestly, when I opened the door I was flat overwhelmed with everything that had accumulated.   I got in there yesterday and found the floor, pulled the curtains to launder and reorganized quite a bit of it.  There’s still a bunch of little boy clutter to clean and sort but, it felt so good to see the progress. Thankfully the toss and giveaway piles were much larger than the keep this time around.   I gotta tell you, it feels really good looking in there and actually seeing carpet!

Tomorrow, the Pantry…..maybe.

Have a great weekend

Katie

 

15 comments:

  1. My, our de-cluttering days sound similar! I think we could exchange our homes and not notice. lol

    My dehydrator self destructed last weekend :-( I would love to have an excaliber to replace it!

    Are you using a special recipe for canning your pumpkin?

    Fall is such a productive time of year :-)

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  2. Wow, I can see why you are expecting a lot of pumpkin bread, pies and muffins in your future...that's a lot of pumpkin! I can never sleep without the hubster either...funny isn't it? Good luck on the de-crap-afying tomorrow...I just LOVE that word! LOL

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  3. Ah Sue! Sorry about your dehydrator! This one was an investment but it's really paid for it's self. I use it at least 2 times a month year round and somethings always in it during the summer. SO much faster than the round style.
    The pumpkin...I cook it in the micro about 15 minutes to loosten the skin, cut in chunks and pack the jars, cover with boiling water. 10 lbs of pressure in the canner for 65 minutes. The second day I just pealed them, chunked and then processed the same. Not sure if it will make any difference but it sure was faster!

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  4. Hey Debbie, thanks for popping by. I did this last year but now it's all the "stuff" I wasn't ready to let go of before. I'm loosly following last years DTE decluttering challange. Kinda hard on my own but not as fun when others are not involved!

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  5. I always thought spring was the time for old-fashioned "spring cleaning" but it seems so many of us are hitting it hard this fall for some reason. Not sure we're very wise as we also seem to still have canning and preserving going on at the same time! I really, really don't want to fill every single minute of every day with "work" type tasks . . . it just seems to happen! Fall is supposed to be a time for thinking about knitting, quilting, reading . . . or will we have to wait for the dead of winter for that?

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