I'm still actively drawing down the contents of my freezer as I prepare for this year's crop. I need to do a lot of canning, but I will freeze some of the tomatoes. I'll freeze peppers. I found myself the other day thinking that I need to keep my eye open for another freezer. Where I'd put it, I don't know. But a lot of my food goes into the freezer, at least for a while. Grains and pasta go in to kill any weevil eggs, so they can come back out again, but I tend to just leave my flour in there till I'm ready to use it. Chicken, beef, fish, veggies, lots of ingredients, plus any number of assembled casseroles that were built in a foil-lined pyrex dish, frozen, and then slipped out of the dish and wrapped further in plastic. Slip the foil-wrapped item back into the dish when it's time to cook it.

Dog walk this morning resulted in a brief brush up against poison ivy. I came home and washed up the spots then took a shower and smeared on some cream. I will know tomorrow if I got it all or not.

I found a prism for $10 that I've ordered for the chandelier. I always need to add something, so if this is the only something, then it isn't bad. Part of yesterday's run was to the Container Store to buy a box to ship it in.

I know there are a few of you lurking - I'll hope you'll drop in and let us know what you're up to. It's energizing to see that other folks are headed in the same direction - to end up with a house of useful stuff and to send the things we don't need to new homes. And to work on the house or rooms while we're at it.

SRS