| | I've been very busy lately but I found time to give y'all a short list of exactly what I've been up to!
Last weekend I went with several of my siblings to DC for the Freedom March. It was huge, though you'd never know it from the media attention it got. But then we all know that the media hides from true news!
So other than that, Mom and Dad are both gone so it's been Daniel, Judah, Ab, Oliver and I at home. Things have been going pretty smoothly.
Steph came over on Monday and we canned a bunch of blueberry lime jam, which taste FABULOUS! I also took all the green beans we've harvested from our garden and made Dilly Beans with them. Basically dilly beans are green beans canned in dill pickle brine. They taste SOOO good!
We had a great time at Julianna's game night on Tuesday! Lots of good food and fun games-- haha, bet you NEVER would have guessed we played games, huh?!
On Wednesday Ab and I creamed, cooked and froze 48 ears of corn. I also pulled all the rest of our beets, which gave me enough to make four pints of pickled beets. The kind that are sweet and sour. Oh, sooo yummy! And I came across a recipe I'm dying to try! It's for pickled summer squash.... I really want to give it a shot and see how it tastes!
Then, on Thursday I decided to strip the dining room table. You see, our table had the worlds worst finish... it was flawed from the time we got it. It was sticky and goopy all the time. However, whatever the finish was they used, it sure didn't like to come off there! I did 6 rounds of stripper before it was mostly clean, then I just sanded the rest off. But now my arms are soooo sore from all the scraping it took to get that crazy finish off!
Anyway, it looks worlds better now, and currently the third coat of our new finish is drying. I think I'm going to do two more coats to ensure it's well finished. Then, we're going to give it a week to cure before using it again.
Tomorrow I think Ab is going out to Judah's house with him for the day. Lord willing, I'll be getting my car, finally!!! And tomorrow night I'm working.
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| | Posted 7/18/2008 7:46 PM - 29 views - 2 comments
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And somehow I remember our youngest sister having more letters in her name too. :p
I can't wait to try the dilly beans!