Tomatoes in Jars
Oct. 9th, 2010 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76A good portion of today was spent doing up the ton of tomatoes I had harvested earlier this week. Well, more like cleaning off the kitchen counter, which is much the same thing, really. So I have six sealed quart jars sitting on the counter, as well as one quart jar and two pints that didn't seal... which are going to get reprocessed hopefully tomorrow. I also have a sieve full of the yellow tomatoes sitting in the sink waiting their turn, and four cuttings from the Yellow Pear plant in a jar on the window, rooting. The monster plant itself gets pulled and composted tomorrow.
In any case, doing up the jars I did meant that I used up the last of the new quart jars I had in the house, so I went out to the garage and brought in the plastic milk crate full of jars I've bought (90% of the time sitting dusty for years in garages) at estate sales. Washing those was an adventure! But I now have a full dozen more quart jars ready to go, there's a box of a dozen pint jars still out in the garage, and I have over two dozen half-pint jars all told. (Mind you, I'm just counting up the empty ones.) I was very pleased to find that in the two (also estate sale) boxes of rings and lids were a lot of unused lids, because I was otherwise out of new lids. A fair number of old/rusty/corroded rings and lids got tossed, and the crate went back to the garage holding only eight baby food jars, for which I haven't yet figured out a use.
I played a little Minecraft this morning (I found a surface cave in my world that seems to have lots of mineable resources including lava; I am now plotting how to make a lavafall on one of the mountains near my house), but the exchange of the day came later when my husband was at it. Him: "A pig just spawned in my cathedral!" Me: "Bacon is a sign that Notch loves us and wants us to be happy."
In any case, doing up the jars I did meant that I used up the last of the new quart jars I had in the house, so I went out to the garage and brought in the plastic milk crate full of jars I've bought (90% of the time sitting dusty for years in garages) at estate sales. Washing those was an adventure! But I now have a full dozen more quart jars ready to go, there's a box of a dozen pint jars still out in the garage, and I have over two dozen half-pint jars all told. (Mind you, I'm just counting up the empty ones.) I was very pleased to find that in the two (also estate sale) boxes of rings and lids were a lot of unused lids, because I was otherwise out of new lids. A fair number of old/rusty/corroded rings and lids got tossed, and the crate went back to the garage holding only eight baby food jars, for which I haven't yet figured out a use.
I played a little Minecraft this morning (I found a surface cave in my world that seems to have lots of mineable resources including lava; I am now plotting how to make a lavafall on one of the mountains near my house), but the exchange of the day came later when my husband was at it. Him: "A pig just spawned in my cathedral!" Me: "Bacon is a sign that Notch loves us and wants us to be happy."
