Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Day After


Well, I made my deadline, but I think I have brain damage. Very early this morning, I scanned for errant red or green squiggly lines, checked the formatting one last time, and hit 'send.' I thought I'd feel relief when I hauled myself into bed, but for the next two hours, all of my grammatical, syntactical, and continuity errors showed themselves in my mind's eye.

All I have to do today is help set up for our town's library book sale and take a riding lesson with my son Ben, but I am hoping to do a coherent blog post later on today.

Time for coffee.

Did I mention I made pickles earlier this week? It was therapeutic and the sight of those jars all lined up in the cellar stirs a Little House in the Big Woods sort of contentment in me.

4 comments:

  1. CONGRATS! (yes, all caps on purpose) What a hurdle you just jumped over. And you canned pickles --- my god woman. If I lived down the street, I would have you over for wine one the patio.

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  2. Whoo hoo! Good job, Jess! And those pickles look beautiful. Are those peppercorns in the liquid? Or capers?

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  3. Peppercorns, bay leaf, champagne vinegar, salt (and I also drained the cukes in salt for a day), red peppers (because I like heat), and coriander seeds, well, just because. A whole clove or two of fresh garlic, a couple of slices of shallots not quite ready in my garden...and that's about it.

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  4. Yay Jess!

    Now you need to get pickled.

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