| | 1. Read Matthew 5:21-30. (i'm following a study by John Stott on the Sermon on the Mount.)
2. Put away dishes, get out canning supplies, get kitchen ready to be a jammery.
3. Prep apricots and mangoes for jamming.
4. Let fruit soak in sugar until after lunch.
5. Read email, post on Freecycle, skim around in Hearth & Home by Karey Swan while putting off cleaning the bathroom.
6. Clean the bathroom.
Okay, so far i've made it to step 5 1/2.
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Update: The bathroom is now clean. i'm pretty frustrated with the way the sink is (not) draining. On my list for today is flushing all the drains in the house; i doubt it'll help this one. i've tried before. Jonathan's even taken it apart; he think that there's a problem with the angle of the pipe. Anyway, it's clean, except that soap builds up around the sink because it drains so slowly. Maybe i'll get a pitcher and wash basin. No window in that bathroom, though... so hard to throw the used water out. 
i've also blended together the simmering fruit and it's working on gelling. When i tested it it was still pretty syrupy (no signs of sheeting, much less gelling), but it hasn't been on the heat very long. While it works on that-- time for lunch!
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Now i've finished the jam (all but the cleaning; the stove is still hot, but i've gotten some of it done) and flushed two drains. Flushing the sluggish drain didn't clear it up-- i knew it wouldn't-- but it did loosen some gunk that's now stuck to the inside of the sink. i just cleaned that!! ::sigh::
i am eating a piece of toast with a bit of the jam and it's quite good. Now i'm trying to work myself up to doing something that's productive-- cleaning, to be specific-- but it's hard to convince myself to clean while it's raining so hard outside. i promise, those two thoughts really are related!
So the jam made two full pints and five half-pints, plus a little left over. Less than i'd intended it to be. When i first made this recipe, it made four half-pints; this time around, i tripled it. That should be six pints total-- much more than the nearly five i got this time. i guess it thickened more than it did last time? Whatever; it's tasty!
In other news, i posted on Freecyle earlier today, looking for a new measuring cap for my laundry soap. (Mine cracked across the bottom.) i got an offer for one, which i'll get this weekend, and i also got four (so far) requests for the recipe! i really love spreading this around. So far, i can think off the top of my head of a few people whom i've introduced to laundry soap and are now making it themselves-- Mom H., Mildred, Amanda, Rachel... and Mildred has spread it to another person or two. Now there are four more interested parties in one day, and i don't even know any of them! It makes me think that it'd be fun to teach a class... i don't know the rules on that, since it isn't my recipe, and i don't know how i'd go about putting it together, but i do think it'd be fun. It probably won't ever happen, but i love homemakery, and i love inspiring and teaching homemakery as well.
Now i had better DO some homemakery... time to finish cleaning, rain or no rain. |
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