Projects for Today

 After a difficult night with Missy, I was up early as G lost patience with her and I ended up having to find out what she was upset about.  Eventually got that sorted, and solved and got her to calm down and go to sleep.  By that time I had had enough and so decided to get up and cook G his breakfast.  I had a fried egg sandwich for a change.

Hopefully the pair of them will now settle down!

Me, well I have a lot of things to do today, and predominantly today and tomorrow I will be dealing with preserving items; the preserving is always done at this time of year, however I am a little behind at the moment.  This is all part of my Christmas preparation strategy in order that I have a choice of ingredients to use over the Winter and Christmas periods and moving into next year. However there are a few standard jobs to deal with as well.  These are as follows:  

• I have washing to do. A wash has already been put on and will not be long before it is finished whereupon it will be hung out to dry. Quite a bit of washing to deal with today;
• Washing up to do;
• Sort out some items that need to go into the Pantry;
• Then I need to start on some of the preserving. 
• First up is to start the process of pickling cabbage;
• Second, start off the second batch of pickled cucumber
• Prepare vinegar for both the pickled cabbage and the pickled cucumber;
• Prepare sugar syrup;
• Third, Prepare Pears for Pears in syrup;
• Fourth, start the process for Mustard; this will be left to soak and then finished off tomorrow;
• Fifth, Make Chunky Apple Sauce;
• Sixth, Roast tomatoes to make more Tomato sauce;
• Seventh, Prepare Chilli jam.
• Eighth, Dry some chillies as they will be needed for the Pickled Onions and the Pickled Shallots which will be worked in tranches specifically either all Shallots to start with and then moving on to the Pickling onions.

Hopefully will get this little load on the go.  If I get time for any more things will add them in later on.

Then hopefully, I will get a bit of a sit down later on and be able to do some more work on my UFO project of a bedspread which is worked in crochet. This is made up of a load of patches which are then joined together.  A  very simple design worked in cream, pink and green.  Nothing fancy just Granny Squares.

Those are the plans at the moment; anything can change on a coin here so fingers crossed and toes plaited that everything goes to plan.  

Well I had better get on then.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

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