"When we last left Barb, she was mumbling about pickled boiled dirt
chunks and ill-fated corn relish, tossing the corn relish and remaking
it. Let's join her now."

Hi there! It's me, Addlebrained Barb. Honest to Alex, I think I'm
suffering from an overdose of vinegar fumes.

Up at 7:30, I went to the farmers market to pick up corn for the *second
batch of corn relish and more cukes for the third AND FINAL batch of
B&Bs. Corn, check; green pepper, check; onions, check; red pepper, go
to Cub, cider vinegar, go to Cub. Went to Cub and came home. I had
company for lunch and prepped for that. I had a 3:30 appointment that
was going to take a couple hours so I couldn't get the cukes going
(timing wouldn't work) until later, but, hey, I could start prepping the
corn relish. Carefully diced the peppers and put them into a bowl. FF
to post-appointment: Throw some supper together and get the cukes
going. Waaal, I forgot that those peppers were supposed to be for the
corn relish and I layered them in with the cukes and onion and ice and
salt. . . . I realized the error after I had the second layer of cukes,
salt, and ice on top. Screw it -- I'll make the corn relish next week,
and I'm taking the corn with the to The Lake tomorrow. Corn on the cob
comin' right up.

Just took 7 pints of B&Bs from the water bath and am about to do a
couple jars of apricots. I wonder how I can screw that up. . . .

"Say goodnight, Gracie." "Good night, Gracie."
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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pics of Ronald McDonald House dinner posted 6-24-2007