DH said he'd do it... a long time ago... this summer, our grandson went back to live with his Mom, so DH finally did it! He took our grandboy's old room and built me a pantry!
I'm so excited... didn't think it could... or would ..... be done!
But I started moving in today......
I still have more to do, but here's the gist of it....
I have these two shelves on the right side of the room, and this one...
There's another shelf to the right of this one, but it's being hidden by my treadmill right now. The rest of the room has to be cleaned out before I can move things around much more....
Then, against the far wall, there is going to be another shelving system for more canning jars and such. (We just didn't get it out yet.)
So, yesterday, I was busy canning, and put up 19 quarts of turkey, vegetable soup for chilly winter evenings, and today, I did 3 quarts and 8 pints of salsa, and 3 quarts of pineapple topping. I ran out of seals, else I'd be doing more chicken broth. I have wide mouth jars, and only small mouth seals.... *sigh* it's too hot to do anymore today anyway....
Our tomatoes caught that Late Blight fungal disease this year. So sad.... I'm going to pull up my plants and use what I can of the green tomatoes. Seems all of them around us caught it too! We had no clue what it was until we saw an article in the paper... and sure enough, that's exactly what our little beauties looked like.... I won't use the tomatoes with the disease on it. DH told me I could cut it out, and I probably could... but I'd rather not take that chance, ya know?
Here's my salsa I did today though. See that bright red pepper in there? That's DH's special jar! No... not cause I'm mad at him, he likes that kind of stuff! That nose waterin', eye burnin' , can't taste anything cause your tongue is gone stuff....
So, how's your winter planning coming along?
I'm so excited... didn't think it could... or would ..... be done!
But I started moving in today......
I still have more to do, but here's the gist of it....
I have these two shelves on the right side of the room, and this one...
There's another shelf to the right of this one, but it's being hidden by my treadmill right now. The rest of the room has to be cleaned out before I can move things around much more....
Then, against the far wall, there is going to be another shelving system for more canning jars and such. (We just didn't get it out yet.)
So, yesterday, I was busy canning, and put up 19 quarts of turkey, vegetable soup for chilly winter evenings, and today, I did 3 quarts and 8 pints of salsa, and 3 quarts of pineapple topping. I ran out of seals, else I'd be doing more chicken broth. I have wide mouth jars, and only small mouth seals.... *sigh* it's too hot to do anymore today anyway....
Our tomatoes caught that Late Blight fungal disease this year. So sad.... I'm going to pull up my plants and use what I can of the green tomatoes. Seems all of them around us caught it too! We had no clue what it was until we saw an article in the paper... and sure enough, that's exactly what our little beauties looked like.... I won't use the tomatoes with the disease on it. DH told me I could cut it out, and I probably could... but I'd rather not take that chance, ya know?
Here's my salsa I did today though. See that bright red pepper in there? That's DH's special jar! No... not cause I'm mad at him, he likes that kind of stuff! That nose waterin', eye burnin' , can't taste anything cause your tongue is gone stuff....
So, how's your winter planning coming along?
What a wonderful pantry! Everything looks so well organised and easy to see - you must be really pleased with it.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes,
Jo