* If your spouse has had to live with his comments around the house becoming fodder for your blog, when he gets on Facebook he might choose to even things out a bit.
* White spots on squash leaves probably aren't hard-water deposits, even if the spots inside the house are.
* Some days it's best to ignore the existence of the garden, especially when one has canned 11 pints of salsa the day before.
* One of the fastest ways to crack my spouse up seems to be to tell him that I think if I stop wasting so much time everyday, I could probably get one more book read every month. I believe he's still chuckling over that one.
* Nothing makes me more excited about canning than to get my arse kicked by a sweater.
* Even though everyone has to be 39 for an entire year, no one seems to believe anyone could be that age.
* Trying to catch a vole with an inverted trash can is a good way to smash him if he runs in the wrong direction when you pounce.
* Listening to Christmas music in September is really only weird if you're wearing a Santa hat as well. There are limits.
* Nine jalapeno plants might really have been a bit of overkill.
* Even canning books can have typos.
* It is possible to melt the knobs on a gas stove, though I'm not exactly sure how I did it.
* While I am trying to be a good homeowner and keep the front of our house looking good, after getting shredded a few times trying to pull the morning glory out of the prickly shrubs, I have decided the flowers make them look nicer anyway.
* I'll be much more sorry to see the zucchini die now that we've discovered zucchini chocolate cake.
* Some days I can see the advantage to having more traditional cats who would simply ignore my existence. Most nights I certainly can.
* There is nothing too foolish or too hateful for someone somewhere to believe it, especially if it's passed around as an email.
* Having a producing garden made the no-processed-foods experiment a whole lot easier, which I will be fully appreciating in about a month when we're back to the bizarre green food creations of the beginning of the year.
* It's really hard to admit that 28 pints of salsa (not counting the carrot & chipotle varieties) might really be enough when we ran out of salsa so early this year. Granted, I only made 6-7 pints last year, but the sheer horror still haunts me.
* We're the only people I know who don't call it "fall." Here it's "canning season."
* It was a lot easier to not think about chocolate before the Halloween candy came out in the stores. I will be trying very hard not to mug Trick-or-Treaters.
* Having three months left to go is a whole lot easier than 12.
2 comments:
I love your 'things I've learned' posts.
Maybe instead of using your 'wasted' time to read an additional book you could use it to achieve world peace; at your pace I'd imagine it would take only a little while.
I like the "Thing's I've learned" postss too. I always laugh and that is a good thing.
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