* It is possible to make "zucchini" bread using green tomatoes, but without adding more liquid, one is likely to end up with a large "bar" cookie.
* This might be our most educational "month of" project, but it's really hard to read philosophical essays every single night.
* Green tomatoes last a really, really, REALLY long time--especially if one is trying to ignore them.
* Sometimes a "canning intervention" can be necessary.
* It is never too early to start listening to Christmas music, provided no one else has to hear it.
* After enough live "gifts," one can welcome a dead bird on the bedroom floor at 6:00 AM with pure joy.
* People who don't watch the news are probably a lot happier than those who do.
* If two people are going to study one subject for an entire month, it is unfair if one person has access to audio books and documentaries and the other one doesn't.
* It really is okay to not use every single thing your garden produces.
* My economics professor was right--there is a price point where people will choose not to buy something. For $5 a loaf, I can learn to make my own darn bread.
* A watched pot never boils, but leave the room for 30 seconds and it will boil over onto the whole darn stove.
* Pumpkin flour would need to cure cancer to be worth the amount of time & effort it takes to produce it.
* Once the garden freezes, one might have forgotten what one did on weekends before canning.
* There might be a global climate change, but to call it global "warming" is a bit misleading.
* There's humor in almost any situation--even if it takes a while before one is really willing to laugh.
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