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[barnhengemama]

Apparently the trick is to keep busy.

Today:

• 1 gallon of yogurt made
• 1 batch of peach/thyme vinegar steeping
• 1 batch of tarragon/tomato vinegar steeping
• 6 quarts of tomato sauce
• 3 quarts of apple sauce
• 1 batch (three 1/2 pint and three 1/4 pint jars) of fig preserves that need a name (due to the rosewater and vanilla I used to flavor it)
• kitchen cleaned and  dishes maintained
• peach-raspberry crisp made
• eggplant lasagna made
• diapers washed and dried and ready to be folded
• amazing 5 for $1 sweet peppers frozen
• quart of yogurt strained
• grains soaking for breads to be made tomorrow
• batch of pesto made
• 25 broilers ordered from McMurray hatchery
• cherry yogurt popsicles in freezer
• teensy bit of knitting knitted

Also I have put in a request that we see about finding room in our budged for another refrigerator - a smallish one - exclusively for keeping our eggs, extra batches of yogurt, krauts, pickles, and kimchi through the winter. Also, if I want to get started on making cheese, I'll need a space for letting it drain/set overnight and sometimes longer.  My sister in law found a place for me to get a decent kimchi pot for a good price, so I suppose, if I had to, I could bury it through the winter.  (I swear I'm gonna try it some year)

Also got some phone calls taken care of .  The Boy had a quiet morning with his Mama, since I didn't start up until nearly three, and then he had a fun-filled afternoon with Miss Amanda.   And me?  I have pretty much kept it together.  I hung a whiteboard on the wall of the kitchen and it's helped immensly with keeping me focused.  I

Also, Sebastian offered Doug money to sleep with him*.  I'm not sure how I feel about this :P

*He didn't want to stay in bed so he came out and gave Doug some "money" and asked him to come go "night night" on the floor next to him.