New Giveaway Coming Soon & What I'm Doing This Week

I've taken all your suggestions under advisement on the next Boring Blog Box Giveaway and here is what I've decided.......

After Thanksgiving I'll be doing a Christmas Giveaway.  More on that later.

Then in after the New Year I'll do a Giveaway of things you want/need in the Winter.

With that settled, I have a few things to do around here in the next few days---

1.  Get another donation to Salvation Army ready to take up this weekend.
2.  Wrap/Tag a bunch of Christmas presents sitting in the dining room(yeah, it was like Christmas up in here yesterday with lots of packages arriving from my online shopping).  I have to get these wrapped and tucked into a box so we can use the table in there next Thursday.  I'll bow the presents up later, at my leisure, after the tree is up......IF it goes up.
3.  Do a little cleaning out in the Garage.  It was too cold the last 2 days to do anything out there but it is a disaster so this can't wait!
4.  Clean out the fridge so I can fit a turkey in there and get my Turkey Day pantry goods ready for when the cooking needs to start next week.

I already spent some time consolidating the fabric I have listed on Etsy and freed up most of an étagère's worth of space to put some of my personal fabric stash out on it too.  That alone emptied 3 Rubbermaid tubs.  Now I have to move 3 more tubs into the closet those now empty ones came out of.
 

Living My Life with Relish

This past weekend we went down to Burger's farm stand.
It's a nice drive on country roads and the weather was wonderful.
We put the top down on Sonic the Hedgehog and rode off.

Other than being full of out-of-state tourists(our bad for going on a weekend!)it was a nice visit.

Beans, mums and fall squash.

 Lots of onions.

Sweet Italian peppers by the load!

Hubs even let me stop on the way home at the cemetery to snap some more photos to put on Find A Grave(aka F.A.G.).


Here's what I brought home from the farm stand.....

A couple of zukes, a red cabbage and acorn squash for $3 total.

25 lbs. of sweet onions for $10.....

And a bushel of peppers for $15. 
I got 37 peppers in this bushel so they cost me less than .50¢ each and they were HUGE!

Some of those peppers are destined for Stuffed Peppers and some are getting cut into strips and frozen for Fajitas this Winter.

As for the rest, add a few more ingredients and 2 days of cutting, chopping, stirring and processing and I now have this.....

14+ quarts of my Family Secret Recipe Pepper Relish.

My sister in-law is Jones-ing for some but she needs to return all my jars first!
Every year I give her some and she NEVER returns the jars.

This may be my last year making the relish however.
Even with getting the veggies cheap-ish it's expensive to make!
Having to pay for new jars each year is just one part of the expense but it's just not that.
It just takes so much out of me now physically to make this.
Two entire days of work alone.
If I had someone to help make it I would continue.

But it does look pretty and I have a feeling of accomplishment for now. 8-)

Now I need to find a place to put all this!

And then turn my attention to these.....

The tomatoes we picked this past weekend.

And these too that I found later because they were hiding under my Morning Glory vines. lol

I probably won't can the tomatoes as there isn't enough to make it worth the while.  I'll just cook em down into sauce and put it all in the fridge.
I had hoped Burgers had bushels of seconds for cheap that I could process and can but no such luck.

Tonight's dinner will be stuffed peppers with some of the peppers I didn't use in the relish.  I'll make a double batch for planned leftovers.  I'll also make a few more for the freezer.

Plus I need to cut the other leftover peppers into strips for the freezer.....if I can find room in there for them.

And I got a big order on Etsy this morning so I need to take a box up to the PO to get it weighed since my scale only handles up to 10 lbs.  The box weighs about 40 lbs. so I hope I can carry it!

Then it's off to grocery shop for the week.
Busy, busy day here.

Catch y'all later,

Sluggy