Weekend Update

1. So after a few days weeks, I finally got around to canning my tomato sauce and jalapeno peppers. Either I don't have the hang of it, or you really do have to stand by the stove and constantly adjust the temperature and pressure of the canner to keep it at 11 psi.   Water baths rule!
2. I got most of my sleeve on my sweater completed before I decided I couldn't live with my fudge on the decreases, even though it would have been hidden in my arm pit.  So tonight, I ripped it all back and tried again.  It still didn't go exactly right, but it was more right than before.  
3. I also managed to finish a real, written book this weekend-The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley.  This is the first book I've read in a shamefully long time.  I've listened to The Forgotten Garden over the past few weeks, and I'm still undecided on fully embracing the audio format.  It took 24 hours to listen what would have been about an 8 hour read.  There are many times when I would have skimmed the sometimes wordy prose in order to get to what I already knew was coming but instead had to listen to the somewhat plodding pace of the reader.  Strangely, shouting at the radio to "get on with it!" didn't make the woman read any faster, but did cause me to grind my teeth.  But it makes decent use of the commute, when I wouldn't be doing anything productive anyway and I did "read" a book, which I haven't been making much time to do.
4. Biscuits put in an appearance at Sunday morning breakfast.  I haven't made them in ages.  I should make them more often.   They are a nice change of pace from pancakes.
5. I also happen upon two cantaloupes and a watermelon in the garden this weekend.  One of the cantaloupes was too rotten, but the other one was pretty tasty.