06.17.08
Clean and Easy Does It
Today I finally got around to reorganizing the spice cupboard. Well, it’s not a whole cupboard just one shelf of it. Also on that shelf we keep our salt and pepper, vinegars and oils. I had to toss a lot of old spices that have been sitting in that cupboard for years.
Instead of buying the jarred spices we’ve been trying to buy them loose or the little bags full. While this is cheaper it makes storage a nightmare. So we bought some 150ml canning jars as we had seen our favourite tv chef store his spices like this.
Then I used my handy dandy labeler to label the spices. Highly recommend a labeler for home use, they are fabulous.
See how nice they look with a clean and simple label. One of the other benefits of using a wide mouth mason jar is that you can actually put your measuring spoon in there.
And finally the finished project. I wish I’d have thought to take a before picture, but just take my word for it, it was bad.
One down…I’m not counting how many more to go.
06.16.08
KABOOM!
A few things to touch on today. First, I got to see my sister on Sunday…she looked really good. I know she’s got some bumps and bruises but really, she looked good…in spite of her new hardware. Hopefully she will be up for us to visit again. We went for Sunday dinner in the hospital cafeteria and had Swiss Chalet, I’ve never seen a Swiss Chalet in a hospital before. She did really well sitting until her meds ran out, I just hope she didn’t over do it.
We also finished our planter box on Saturday and we planted our new herb garden. I re homed the potted rosemary tree into the box as well as two of each of the smaller potted herbs we bought. So we now have fresh thyme, basil, sage, flat leaf parsley and oregano at our fingertips. We still have loads of room which I plan on filling with some tomatoes.
And finally the reason there are no pictures of our new box is because we’ve been having some pretty severe weather. We’ve had thunderstorms for the past three days, a few torrential downpours mixed in. I was worried about the herbs but apparently they’re quite a bit sturdier than I thought. We’re still expecting more thunderstorms over the next few days so I’ll do my best to get pictures when the sun is shining again.
