Monday meandering

in which our plucky heroine wakes up before dawn...

Saturday morning the sky was all golden to the east when I was on my way to one of the bigger farmers markets, with the intention of getting there right when they opened. It was "senior day", which apparently happens once a year towards the end of harvest season, with unlimited $1 off every $4 purchase coupons for everyone over 55. To my great delight, there are now waiting on my kitchen counter enough organic tomatillos to make three batches of salsa verde, and an appropriate amount of jalapeño peppers

※※※

~ harvest season ~

Seven gallons of ripe plums have been added to the chest freezer. Now I need get busy raking up the windfalls for compost, bit by bit in the cool early morning before the danger bugs awaken. 

※※※

My treat for figuring out the flat piping shams conundrum was to order from Alibris a copy of The Ashley Book of Knots. This everso useful and encyclopedic manual was not in my collection, and adding a reference book or tool after solving a challenge and/or finishing a commission is my way of giving myself a bonus. (Trying to look up the instructions online for Mr Dawson for how to lash a fiberglass brush made me realise this particular gap in the library shelves here at Acorn Cottage.)

※※※
  

Sleep/wake is returning to a more functional schedule, though it would be even further improved would my cranky SI joint decide to be cooperative again instead of seceding from the rest of my structural components. Am currently setting an early morning alarm in order to get yardwork done, or prep for preserving. My hope this week is to turn the 15# of tomatoes in the freezer into Awesome Sauce in the pantry, plus fig lemon marmalade, and salsa verde. That will free up some sorely needed freezer space  

※※※

September SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	4 barkcloth tea towels	box fan grille	greenwaste bin
2	yellow triangle pouch	needle gauge herb stripper	greenwaste bin
3	knitted pony	pruning elderberry	recycle bin
4	8 jars quince apple  rosewater sauce	pruning nandina	-
5	6+ jars fig lemon marmalade	picked moar figs	-
6	dried pears	picked plums	x
7	4 jars pickled beets	small radiator foot	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x

today's gratitudes -
- a phone conversation with Mikki
- figured out a way to do the mitered flat piping, albeit requiring lots of hand stitching, sigh
- The Ashley Book of Knots
- an almost new and very affordable pair of Arizona Birks on Ebay 

Time of Isolation - Day 1919