Well, an earthquake and a hurricane aren't really the reasons I'm behind in my winter planning. I'm not going to say I'm lazy, exactly, but I will say that I'm a little on the unmotivated side right now. I've not completed half of what I'd hoped to by now, and that doesn't bode well for my little experiment.
What I have done the past couple of weeks:
Froze a half dozen eggs
Froze some berries
Canned some blueberry pie filling and froze the shells
Made pickles (but need to make more)
Bought extra ground beef and pork chops for the freezer
Bought a pressure canner (but haven't yet opened the box)
By this weekend I was supposed to have canned some soup and tomato sauce, but I haven't yet. I lost my master plan, but I know I was supposed to can and freeze some additional vegetables as well. I also should have made and frozen at least one quiche.
I've discovered that freezing eggs is annoying. I've broken an ice cube tray trying to get the eggs out of the tray, so I'll have to see if there's another way. If I have to use a knife to get eggs out of an ice cube tray again I might prefer to just not have eggs in winter.
Last weekend I was out of town, and although I've had a few extra days off for vacation, I haven't really felt like doing anything (probably because constant rain sucks away my energy). Next weekend I'm going on a church retreat, so I won't get much done then either.
I'm either going to have to start working on things during the week or have a really full weekend sometime soon. That'll happen sometime in October, maybe.
