Looking over at the lantern moon knitting needles and the merino wool skeins nervously, as though they’ll start tattling on their costs!

Childhood me gasped. We loved stamps!!

So I got the dehydrator working which is cool, basically free dehydrator cause they refunded us. I sacrificed an onion to test and it got very dry and neat. Then we made some spiced apple slices with the corer/peeler and those have been drying. I’m doing another batch now. When those are done I’ll make some tomatoes. Those need to be prepared first though whereas the apples were easier.

We dehydrated stuff as children and we had a corer/peeler and it was large and CLAMPED to the table. This was small but looked the same. It used suction though. I was worried it wouldn’t work well. The one in the 90s was so hard to use.

Holy shit it works a wonder. Smooooooth.

I need to figure out a side dish for rosh Hashanah that is not dried apples.

Federation issues I’d think? I’m having that issue with my canning stuff. If I look at the community from world, posts from world are there. But if I go look at that community from Midwest dot social note, they’re not there yet.

All the candied jalapeños sealed but there’s still almost all of a quart in the fridge so I’m trying to eat them. They’re still very hot being fresh and my little teeth caps hate heat now.

We need to take the cars in for their every few months things, and I hate doing it. Mother wants them at a specific place, they’re her cars, so we do that.

The cat is being a goblin child. I love her.

I’m pretty sure all the cans sealed! But there’s a quart still in the fridge and I’m having a roast beef sandwich today just to put some of those extras on there!

The candied jalapenos are now canning! 10 half pint jars canning, 4 half pint (or one quart) in the fridge!

It’s raining a lot! I tried to go outside to deal with the tomatoes, but they’ll have to deal with themselves until it stops. Even the sun hat did not help. We don’t have an umbrella.

I need to make the candied jalapenos today. I hate the slicing stage, but the jalapenos are huge so there’s less jalapenos overall which…my brain likes.

The dehydrator arrived damaged, weeeeep weep. They don’t want it back though and gave twin a refund anyway, so I guess it might also be void warranty time in an attempt to make it work anyway??? (the heat turns out, but there’s no fan. Something is clearly moving inside which seems bad, so maybe it’s just a screw or something??)

Went outside and harvested some tomatoes from the very sad plants (its too wet and the fungus is consuming them despite the efforts for that to not happen)

Today the pakige arrives. Pakige!!! Hoooo pakige.

Uhm, I mean the dehydrator arrives. Exciting! Hopefully in one piece.

You’d give them the munchies and make it worse!

I’ve stopped caring quite so much and just fucking exist now.

I’m still scared but now I’m more physically comfortable.

Amazing apron!

We tried to go to the Asian supermarket, turns out it floods real bad over there so we couldn’t park and just turned around.

We were going to go look at their selection of dried mushrooms and it’s fine because we can get fresh mushrooms and use the dehydrator twin purchased that’s coming soon.

I have an identical twin. Or that the much shorter person next to me is…that identical twin lol. Yes twin is six inches shorter! We’re still identical! Turns out when you’re born 4lbs and 2lbs, the 2lb baby does not catch up in height and stuff!

Most recently, hearing “Friday I’m in Love” when I stepped into the wawa was weird and disconcerting.

It would have gotten so weird with Joss! Now it gets to live in my brain where it only gets mildly weird!

Still running a 99.7 fever so no chores today. Well. I did a load of laundry and will make dinner, hopefully.

Twin bought us both the remaster of the Lord of the Rings: War on the North. It’s fun! The Save system is still wild. The npc in the party actually can use his secret finding ability. In the old game I could only find a third of the secrets because the npcs did shit all.

I took a weed. I’m tired and want to sleep.

Playing the beta of Wandering Alchemist. I don’t have much money, I should go walkies.

I don’t can enough to post enough in there canning, but I’m hoping it’s just well, we’re all waiting for fall and the harvests!

Really depends on zone, but I’ve found tomatoes grow with little effort. As in, I screw up constantly and still get tomatoes!

I have a license and access to a car. I’m in America so I sort of have to.

I use to eat black olive by the can and sour cream by the spoonful. Also fresh tomatoes are disliked by some but man. My garden fresh tomatoes are amazing.