There will be quite a haul going out to the curb in the trash tomorrow (few holidays off for those folks - this one they'll be working). I've accomplished a lot (not a lot by Charmion standards, but a lot for around here on a typical weekend). Next week is our quarterly bulky waste and I have some limbs to trim for that larger trash pickup.

The hot water bath is almost boiling, the brine and jars are ready, and the assembly of pickled okra is about to begin. These will be gifts for friends and neighbors, I'm not a huge fan of it myself. This is much easier now that I've cleared equipment off of the counters on both sides of the stove.

Tomorrow I start tapering the prednisone, down by one milligram, and tomorrow are Labor Day protest events - I have to pace myself to be able to protest and not bring back the PMR.