I'm back to my volunteer schedule this week and the archivist and I did some organizing in the collection I've been scanning since 2020. Now all of the rest of the boxes of archival plastic sleeves of slides are arranged in folders so searching them (after searching through the metadata I'm entering when I scan) is easy. We both had worried that the last few boxes might need a lot of work, more folders added and the over-stuffed boxes partially emptied into new containers, but that was not the case. It's easy to put off a job that you fear is going to be complicated, and now we both know it isn't. It'll still take a long time, but it's in good order. Now to do something similar with my personal slide collection (that's why I initially started this volunteer project—to get my hands on the scanner and slides there and decide how I wanted to handle my own).

Since I made felafel last weekend and the small deep fryer was still out (oil and all) I soaked chickpeas yesterday and today made another batch this evening. My ex was over for dinner and I sent quite a few home with him, along with most of the tahini sauce. I kept enough for one more meal here. I need to use chickpeas more often, they're one of those good carbs.

Another case of old canned goods are decanted into the compost pile and jars in the dishwasher. I have at least one more case to go. [Sigh] I'm tossing the output of labor from the garden and canning two and more years ago. I should have done a better job of giving some of this away.

Next I need to decide what to do with the mustang grape juice in the freezer. The highest use would be to make jelly to give for the holidays perhaps - and be sure it is all given away. It can go into some of these jars liberated today.