Freshman year of high school, baybeee. One of two times the TVs ever went on in school. The second was for (very local disaster). Dad was suppose to be on the plane that went into the field (unlike his usual lies he had a ticket) but he decided spending time with his mistress was more important.

It’s also Rosh Hashanah dinner tonight. I need to bring “a side” and my brain only figured out corn bread. Hope mom likes it.

I’ll dehydrate more celery when I get home. I’d usually do it before leaving but that is a voided warranty so I’d rather be at home if it like. Explodes.

Ramen eggs if I remember to make them. Otherwise I like adding some dried mushrooms when it’s boiling away. Even if it already has some, more mushrooms!

Indeedy, cats go where they want. When I’m around they stay off the counter but at night she’s wherever.

Which is why my cutting surface is not the countertop, it’s a cutting board that’s kept inside a cabinet she can’t physically get to. Also if I do have to use straight counter, I wash it down! I mean, I still wipe it down even when using a cutting board, in case. It’s just extra washed.

I love cats for their soft fur and little meows.

I dehydrated some celery. I knew it would shrink. I should not shame it for shrinking.

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I’m going to have to dehydrated like fifty bunches before I get half a pint jar lol

Maybe! Just as long as it’s NOT A FENCE. I could call them again, but I think the idea of a trellis maze would upset them, and then I’d be behind the making of a new law lol.

You can still use an oven on very low! And also also, as my brain keeps pointing out, you’d still be waiting like 12 hours for them to dehydrate! So it’s…a very long emergency???

I think she was so use to asking the question it just arrived!

Wind is extremely scary.

We went to get a new dehydrator so we went to check at home depot and they said they didn’t have them in store, then asked “Is it an emergency” and I froze because how do I say “There is no such thing as a food dehydrator emergency” without being an ass so I just said “nooooo” drawn out.

We forgot to buy the metal tape I need to keep repairing the dryer with. Oops. It’ll still run, it’ll just take more trips through the dryer to get well, dry.

Lovely baby!

I knew the prices before even going there, with the Le Creuset name, but I still went and still gasped at the prices lol

I love the song so much!

How all maintenance goes for me, yes yes. Smack smack smack! Work now or you go outside in a month for bulk trash day!

Speaking of, they did that so silly today. Half the street, cans taken, other half, cans taken. All bulk trash left.

Third pass, they take the bulk trash. So many passes!

Cat is being a dingus. I’m wearing a shirt that shows a bit of my stomach when I’m goblin shaped on the couch. My normal shirt doesn’t. Kitten got it into her head, saw it, and smacked that skin with claws!!! Oooo jerk.

The dehydrator, being weird is sometimes still making noise but my magical technique called “smack it till it works again” is working. I’m making ‘sun-dried’ tomatoes now from the garden tomatoes.

We’re going to look for a bunch of stuff outside the house. Not looking forward to that.

I was worried about this and called the city/township and turns out, as long as it’s cultivated, my plants can be as tall as I want!

I can’t make a fence with trelliseseses though. They were very adamant about that.

Me and my twin. I just use we a lot cause of that.

Looking over at the lantern moon knitting needles and the merino wool skeins nervously, as though they’ll start tattling on their costs!

Childhood me gasped. We loved stamps!!

Okily dokily!

Fond memories of reading the books as a kid, ordering the first books from England before they made all the dates for release the same.

All my books are thrown out and I don’t touch that shit even pirate stuff because fuck her.

So I got the dehydrator working which is cool, basically free dehydrator cause they refunded us. I sacrificed an onion to test and it got very dry and neat. Then we made some spiced apple slices with the corer/peeler and those have been drying. I’m doing another batch now. When those are done I’ll make some tomatoes. Those need to be prepared first though whereas the apples were easier.

We dehydrated stuff as children and we had a corer/peeler and it was large and CLAMPED to the table. This was small but looked the same. It used suction though. I was worried it wouldn’t work well. The one in the 90s was so hard to use.

Holy shit it works a wonder. Smooooooth.

I need to figure out a side dish for rosh Hashanah that is not dried apples.

It also just feels weird! Sometimes I even wear sneakers for cooking, mostly for the support if I’ll be standing for awhile!