elainegrey

3 -11 August my week off by the numbers:

Reread five novels and two novellas from the Miles Vorkosigan series from Lois McMaster Bujold.

We had three power outages, but i was away for the Thursday morning one.

• 2024-08-03 Sat 16:44 - 19:14 "caused by fallen trees or limbs damaging our equipment."
• 2024-08-08 Thur 06:55 - 09:04 (During Debby) "was caused by fallen trees or limbs damaging our equipment."
• 2024-08-09 Fri  06:50 - 08:38 (During Debby) "was caused by fallen trees or limbs damaging our equipment."

6.01 inches of rain (recorded 9:45 am Sat .97+.68+.99+.86+1.0+.77+.74 mostly clear, sun just coming over the trees)

15.58 ft height of Haw River at Bynum 2024-08-09 09:45

Gathering of twelve family members to inurn my mother at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday

Dinner on Wednesday and a visit to the National Cathedral  on Thursday with ten family members

Lunch at a Richmond deli with six family members.

Around ten hours of I95 and I85 travel.

Eleven pounds of apples, at least two pounds of figs, 20 plus figs in organza bags on the tree, and lots of fruitfly and wasp infested figs to deal with.  (Yay, the green organza bags don't stand out. Um, oops, i am now hiding the figs from me, too.)

Three 12 oz jars sealed of spiced apples in syrup, two failed seals, one quart i didn't even try to seal.

One sealed quart spiced pickled apples.  Around three cups leftover sweet spiced vinegar brine.

One quart fermenting mixed fruit for vinegar. One quart apple cores with champagne yeast fermenting for vinegar. Third quart jar collecting apples cores and really ripe figs, with champagne yeast, to make more vinegar.

Four spice packs, a gift for Christine, two floor mats, a steam canner, and an electronic posture monitor ordered.

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