I find I have a whole lot of canning jars after pulling them out of the pantry cupboard and off of the bottom of the shelves in the hall. Giving them away now would be silly because if I get a good crop of okra and tomatoes I'll be canning. I'm not making jelly now but I put my tomato sauce in the half-pint jars; those are the first to be offered if I decide I have way too many. And I need to see if I can find one place where all of the jars and boxes can go so I have a better idea of the number in the future.

There are things in the pantry that I don't use often, and there are things that I never use. Those things will come out today for donation. My baking sheets live in there and are used frequently, so if I take them off of the rolling shelves where will they live for easy access? I'm rethinking how I house the jar rings so I can see what I have. The boxes they're in now hide that information unless I pull them down to look, I could use the transparent Rubbermaid gallon containers for those. And there are a gazillion cardboard boxes canning jars came in because the rule of thumb is to store the jars in the box they came in. Time to weed them out.

This afternoon I'll set up the garden sprinkler since next Wednesday is forecast to hit 102^o. I'll need to get outside for some fresh air after all of the pantry dust.