* The optimism that makes me do things like canning two different types of salsa in the same day REALLY needs to be checked.
* There is something immensely satisfying about throwing blossom-end-rotted tomatoes against the Fence From Hell
* Trying to shoo the grasshopper that the cat is playing with back into the garage is a really big waste of time. Squash the bug--the cat can find another one.
* Garden problems come in quantities. One doesn't just get slugs. One gets slugs and fungus and grasshoppers and blossom end rot and aphids and moles and......
* If the cookbook is too close to the stove, steam coming out from under the lid of the canner can REALLY wrinkle the pages. This is best not discovered with a book from the library.....
* It can now be 105 degrees one day, 69 degrees the next day, and NO ONE makes clothes for summers like this.
* When borrowing movies from the library, a set of Doris Day movies and a modern British police drama about solving horrific murders is just too drastic of a contrast. Borrow a third movie somewhere in the middle........
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