Yatta!
I'm wiped. It's been a busy weekend. Just today I:
FWIW, I am so glad I found an enameled canner tall enough to handle quarts -- all of the canners sold at stores are barely tall enough to handle pints (they need an inch of water over them, which leaves maybe a half-inch of clearance to the rim). I found a tall narrow one that gives me a good two inches above the waterline needed for quarts, and it holds about four quarts comfortably. It doesn't even take oceans of water. Win!
- Put away the baskets of clean laundry sitting in my bedroom
- Put away the now-frozen meatballs for Thursday's dinner
- Fed the cat
- Did two loads of laundry (including a VERY heavy dress and a load of oxi-clean)
- Traded an empty bin for one full of horse manure
- Cut down at least a half-dozen good-sized branches to allow my winter garden a little light
- Left the branches there (I'll get to them when I'm not so tired)
- Continued with a test run of the paint and sealant I'm using to make ornaments this year
- Thawed and cooked down two small batches of tomato sauce (one red, one yellow)
- Processed the tomato sauces (five pints) and some chicken broth (two pints) in the pressure canner
- Processed three quarts of clear tomato juice in the boiling-water canner
- Washed all the pots and utensils (whew)
- Cleared almost all the miscellaneous stuff off the dining-room table, including packing a few seeds
FWIW, I am so glad I found an enameled canner tall enough to handle quarts -- all of the canners sold at stores are barely tall enough to handle pints (they need an inch of water over them, which leaves maybe a half-inch of clearance to the rim). I found a tall narrow one that gives me a good two inches above the waterline needed for quarts, and it holds about four quarts comfortably. It doesn't even take oceans of water. Win!