* 51 weeks of the year, having all yearly checkups in one week sounds like a great idea
* Have storage figured out BEFORE quadrupling a soup recipe
* The age where discussing joint pain becomes a pick-up line is younger than I thought it might be
* Remembering that the reason I own water shoes in the first place is because the bottom of the pool is very, very rough BEFORE scratching up my feet walking barefoot in the pool for an hour would have been the smarter choice...
Showing posts with label lessons learned. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lessons learned. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lessons Learned Today
* Celebrate the small things. Having solved the problem of cornmeal and polenta being mixed up is an achievement. That the new corn-products-all-over-the-floor-of-the-pantry-problem has not been resolved yet is an entirely separate issue.
* Being proud of oneself for finally thinking to buy a restaurant-sized stockpot for canning would make a lot more sense if one had thought to buy a spoon with a restaurant-sized handle.
* Making a double batch of vegetable broth to can would make far more sense if one figured out ahead of time how to strain broth if its volume exceeds everything you own except the stockpot it's already IN, and whether or not the subsequent number of jars also exceeds the capacity of the pressure canner.
* No matter how many problems one encounters, it's hard to have a bad day when there is chocolate-peanut butter ice cream involved.
* The fact that I'm always surprised when the lawn-care program we signed up for notifies me that something else needs to be done to the lawn is probably the best illustration of why we NEED a lawn care program.
* Ignoring the green tomatoes hasn't made them go away, but at least it makes them turn red.
* No matter how this vegetable broth turns out, the fact that it is the last thing I'm making with the pressure canner this year makes it my favorite canned thing EVER!
* Being proud of oneself for finally thinking to buy a restaurant-sized stockpot for canning would make a lot more sense if one had thought to buy a spoon with a restaurant-sized handle.
* Making a double batch of vegetable broth to can would make far more sense if one figured out ahead of time how to strain broth if its volume exceeds everything you own except the stockpot it's already IN, and whether or not the subsequent number of jars also exceeds the capacity of the pressure canner.
* No matter how many problems one encounters, it's hard to have a bad day when there is chocolate-peanut butter ice cream involved.
* The fact that I'm always surprised when the lawn-care program we signed up for notifies me that something else needs to be done to the lawn is probably the best illustration of why we NEED a lawn care program.
* Ignoring the green tomatoes hasn't made them go away, but at least it makes them turn red.
* No matter how this vegetable broth turns out, the fact that it is the last thing I'm making with the pressure canner this year makes it my favorite canned thing EVER!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Things I've Learned This Week
* Cool weather doesn't just mean that it's finally possible to spray fungicide. It also likely means rain. Probably while or right after spraying said fungicide.
* Taking a shower in the summer is a much more interesting event than it is in the winter. In the winter it's harder to play "Guess what bug/soil/spray/twigs I'm covered in today?"
* Even if the little clerk at the gardening store doesn't have the faintest idea what she's talking about, she'll talk with great certainty about what is wrong with your plant leaves.
* I planted cucumbers and ended up with spaghetti squash. I planted Hubbard squash and ended up with pumpkins. Now I know why my family raised cattle for a living instead of vegetables: You don't breed a cow and end up with a llama.
* Either Theo can't actually tell what fresh catnip looks like when it's still on the plant or he prefers his catnip to be served by his human staff.
* Finding that we still had one jar left of my vegetable salsa from last year totally made my day. Either that's really good salsa or a really boring day.
* Taking a shower in the summer is a much more interesting event than it is in the winter. In the winter it's harder to play "Guess what bug/soil/spray/twigs I'm covered in today?"
* Even if the little clerk at the gardening store doesn't have the faintest idea what she's talking about, she'll talk with great certainty about what is wrong with your plant leaves.
* I planted cucumbers and ended up with spaghetti squash. I planted Hubbard squash and ended up with pumpkins. Now I know why my family raised cattle for a living instead of vegetables: You don't breed a cow and end up with a llama.
* Either Theo can't actually tell what fresh catnip looks like when it's still on the plant or he prefers his catnip to be served by his human staff.
* Finding that we still had one jar left of my vegetable salsa from last year totally made my day. Either that's really good salsa or a really boring day.
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