Friday, August 13, 2004

channeling martha stewart..........

ok, so on my bonus week off.....i have completed the following projects......martha would have done more, but martha doesn't live here................

-back to school casseroles for my friends who teach.........along with foccacia bread
-recovered lounge chair pad.....made matching tablecloth for deck table
-made and canned pear/pineapple jam, pear/peach chutney.....and sweet onion confit......
-made custom labels for each jar using publisher
-printed up postcards with our family digital photo from up at the farm...thanks to fred....to tuck
in with jane's hostess gift yesterday....alas...the printer is nearly out of ink so we are a curiously
green version of sepia..................
-dyed all of our older/mismatched towels a lovely dark green......now they look nearly new....
-sorted through 12 months of magazines.........ripped out interesting articles missed the first
go-around and recycled the rest
-cleaned out 5 kitchen cupboards.........sent an entire bag of mismatched tupperware to the
recycling bin
-cleaned out 2 drawers....................
-found time to read jane austin fan fiction/porn....................
-planned ahead for last night's dinner........roast herbed chicken in the crockpot.....my family said
it was lovely..........


i still have 2 days.......................i am thinking about doing mulch in the morning, before it gets hot.......or rainy..............i will keep you posted..............sunday afternoon......my schedule says....nap.....................but then, you saw that coming..................


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