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State of the pantry:

• 9 pints sweet and sour pickles
• 4 quarts hot dill pickles
• 20 quarts tomato sauce
• 3 quarts + 15 pints corn and tomato soup
• 16 half-pints+ 1 pint salsa
• 2 4-oz of hot peppers (mostly jalapenos, some hot cherry, some habanero)
• 2 pints + 2 quarts tomato vegetable soup
• 12 half-pints + 3 cups cinnamon/nutmeg applesauce
• 10 quarts grape juice (refrigerated but not canned–we’ll drink it all pretty quickly :)

This represents about half the total food we canned–my mom took about the same amounts of the tomato sauce, soups, salsa, peppers, and applesauce as are listed above. We also gave a few cans away. We would have had more pickles, but the crock pickles went bad–probably too many cukes for too little brine.

Now I just have to figure out where to store it (small house, no basement, everywhere else freezes in winter). :) Yay, maybe I can get more computer stuff done; we’ve been canning almost every weekend from the beginning of August until now.

You know what day it is!

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We’ve been working our way through the archives of the Austin, TX cable access show The Atheist Experience lately. Great stuff and often hilarious. It must be maddening to hear the same questions every week for years: 1) do you believe in any higher power (god/ghosts/angels/jesus), 2) what do you think happens to you after you die, 3) where did we come from, if we weren’t created, 4) how can you be moral without god telling you how to act, 5) do you believe in evolution. My favorite so far was the lady whose belief in god was triggered when her alarm clock beeped differently one day (it never did that before!).