Somebody stop me please. On Friday I tried canning for the first time ever. Nobody had any major burns, the spills left no permanent damage to the stove, and the jars seem (??) to have sealed properly. I made 7 jars of apple pie filling. Everybody thinks that home preserving is so healthy, but these recipes have an incredible amount of sugar. Take grape jelly---3 lbs of grapes and a whopping 7.5 cups of sugar. The process also seems to waste water.

Oh yes, then over the course of the next two days, I planted 98 bulbs! Got snowed on today too. Come spring, every one of those little buggers better be accounted for or I'll dig up the slackers and scream at them.

Oops, water's boiling, Time to get the washboard and get to work.