Feeling Oh so much better!

I know I have been remiss the last couple days. So sorry. I am feeling MUCH better..not 100% but getting there.

I spent yesterday canning MORE pickles, AND Salsa. Mostly because I felt I needed to get SOMETHING done after being in bed and useless the last few days. I could at least sit and chop and cook. The salsa was a new canning adventure for me. I always look for recopies, then take a bit from each one, and punt. It was all going well with my tomatoes,and peppers.I bought cilantro b/c mine did not do well this year, as well as garlic, and onions....otherwise it was all  home grown.

This is the first year I had grown habaneros. I do like to grow a variety of peppers. My DD loves to make salsa, and is amazing at it. (Her guacamole is to die for).

 In fact, we love peppers so much and  like hot, it had become a bit of a challenge of who could take the hottest. Last year at a family dinner(which included the kids and their friends...I love to have as many as possible for dinner) I had grown a "cherry bomb" pepper. My DS said he could handle it. I know this may sound sick to some of you moms..but it was harmless, and well if ya have teens... kind of amusing. So as an industrious teen he bet me $5.00 that he could eat one. I gleefully took him up on that. I had previously tried one....HOT!. SO while at the dinner table he ate the whole thing...eyes watering...sweat pouring...I ALMOST felt bad, but so worth it. Best $5.00 I had ever spent. Especially, for dealing with the day to day events of any teen.

OK back to the salsa...SO I made a pretty big batch...all said and done enough to fill 8 pints to can, and 2 pints left to eat. NOTE TO ALL...2 habaneros, ESPECIALLY included with chilies, hot wax, and jalapenos.....WAY TO MUCH!!! FIRE! Mind you the total pepper combo was less then 1/4 cup. So as I tired to adjust the recipe it became a game of "you try it." ..."I'm not gonna try it, you try it" Honestly my lips burned for an hour after my first try. AGAIN...thank god for children. We all decided TOO HOT! I had to go purchase more tomatoes at a farmer's stand...not bad about 4 lbs for $2.00. Had SD hi to the neighbors on the way out...told them my story. They replied, "WE LOVE IT HOT". I am sure they were referring to the salsa. I promised them to save them some  before I "fixed" it.

In fact, I did give them some before I amended it...they loved it!!! WOW, they DO like it hot. Salsa was corrected to a "medium" level. Much more then I had planned, but NP I had the jars. My only problem now was who would taste it...I had exhausted my gunny pigs.....AGAIN, luckily the kids have friends...it was go. AND after I assured DD, that it was fixed, she tried, and gave me a thumbs up. WHEW!(literally)

OK so now for the REAL reason I decided to write today. Ya know when you are having coffee, or sitting on the pot, and ya notice the webs in the ceiling and walls... and ya think, "ugh I need to deal with that". AND it goes on for days? I consider myself to be fairly tidy, but I do HATE those jobs. I really don't mind the spiders(as long as they are not the hairy big ones). The kind of airy ones that just kind of live in the corner...those are OK.  I actually have one in the corner of my bed room I have kind of grown accustom to.

ANYWAY... I am not sure if b/c I was feeling so awful the last few days, and feeling so much better today, I took on the project of the ceiling, and wall cleaning. OH what a project. I had always wanted a house where you had the kitchen cupboards with room to display things on top of. OH MY! That's all I will say about that. I will also admit that I found myself apologizing to the Eco-systems I destroyed as I was vacuuming.

It is good to feel good, that is for sure, I know I always take that for granted until I feel crappy. I need to try and remember everyday I  feel good that it is a gift! Even though, on occasion it means disrupting another Eco-system.

More to do yet to day....

I guess the "dog story" will have to wait yet again...not much of a cliff-hanger...but stay tuned.