I'm doing nothing today, not even getting out of the pj's. Seriously. I was up at 5:00 yesterday morning getting salmon out of brine and into the smokers...the last piece finished up at about 10:30 last night:
Our freezer is full ~ 32 chunks of silver and 10 good size king pieces. Thanks, again, JR ~ your cooler and some of this is headed your way soon!
I also processed 5lbs of Oregon blueberries. I've got 4c dehydrated in the freezer now and 5 and a 1/2 jars of this left:
My first ever blueberry jam ~ I'm not a fan of blueberry pie (too sweet) but this jam is so good that I've already eaten 1/2 a jar since I finished making it yesterday. Much less labor intensive than the cherry jam I made last week and I'll definitely make multiple batches of this next year. I've enjoyed doing these experimental small batches while I'm learning to can, since I can test recipes as well as figure out all the ins and outs of food preservation.
And if the kitchen projects weren't enough, I finished (almost) my
Goodale sweater that I had mostly completed by October of last year. I actually did all the finish work once yesterday but thought I could tweak everything to make it even better so I ripped all my seaming out and did it a second time. It's on the blocking boards right now, so no completely finished photos but you can get an idea:
And finally, while I sat up all night (I'm not exaggerating!) waiting for my husband to get home from a too long day of fly fishing and seeing
Soundgarden at
The Gorge in Eastern Washington, I cast on for
Vitamin D:
My sleepless night was the result of a not so funny at the time comedy of errors ~ I waited up, he got too tired driving home so pulled over to sleep, I normally wouldn't have been up to know that he hadn't made it home on time but I was wide awake, he didn't call to tell me he had pulled off the highway since he thought I was sleeping.....so at 5:30 this morning he got a panicked phone call from me....WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!?!?!
He's fine, we're both tired, and all's well that ends well. I'm spending the rest of today snuggling on the couch with the pup and knitting a little...
or napping a lot! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! ~ Melissa
