My Friend Cathy
In the Nook…
We’ve had a very productive day. Gerald and I got up at 7 and started canning tomatoes, red and yellow, we canned cabbage for sauerkraut and I chopped red and yellow peppers to go in the freezer. Total we got 6 qt. jars of sauerkraut (from one head of cabbage), 2 qt. jars of yellow tomatoes, 3 qt jars of red tomatoes and one gallon size bag of frozen red peppers and two qt. size bags of chopped yellow peppers. We stopped long enough for lunch then I did laundry in between all that. I helped Kelsey go through her old clothes and pack a bag of clothes that she cannot wear for a friend and Gerald finished dry walling my office for me and I’m still doing laundry. Now we just have to redo the drywall in Kelsey’s room and put her room back together and put my office back together…Here is the window and some other pictures of the work we did in my office. It’s been hectic but so much fun being productive as a family.
This was actually the foyer when our home was a church.
This was some foam about 1/8″ thick and was all that was keeping us from the vinyl siding on the outside of the house. See the light from the outside coming through the middle and through the floors.
These are the new walls, freshly covered with dry wall that we got for $1/sheet because it was dirty and had minimal damage to the edges! The new window after my husband built a frame inside the wall to accommodate the window and we filled it with insulation. Notice my new window used to be an old french door…see the keyhole for a skeleton key? It’s all sealed up TIGHT now and dry walling is completed.
Our canning adventures and MY first lesson in canning. White is the cold-packed sauerkraut that my husbands Aunt, who lives in Indiana, gave us the recipe for. The orange color in the middle is actually yellow tomatoes and then there are red tomatoes.
These are red peppers and yellow peppers that I cut up and put in vacuum seal bags and froze for quick work of preparations for dinners later on. I left the red peppers whole in case we wanted to stuff them sometime. Did you know that one red pepper has as much calcium as 6 oranges?!!!
Hope you had a great day too and enjoyed hearing about ours too!