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I’ve been trying for over a week now to put shelves in the front hall closet so that it can become a linen closet and maybe some pantry space in there too. For some reason there is only one stud in the closet so I haven’t been able to put up the second bracket. So yesterday, solution? I go and buy some anchors. I go this morning to put the anchors in, carefully measure it out, drill my hole, put the anchor in place, power up my drill to tighten the anchor. It crushes the drywall and pops through the other side. Get that problem taken care of, the screws are too short. This is all AFTER I put a million holes in the wall getting the old stuff out, patching the holes and painting. The gods of organization are against me. I would sacrifice a goat right now if I had one.

Robinson

Today’s farmgirl adventure: Plum Jam.

There’s a small plum tree surviving in a jungle of weeds in our side yard. It was covered with fruit and I decided that it was time to venture into the kitchen and make some jam. It turned out GREAT. I had some on a piece of bread after it cooled (mostly) and let me tell you, you can’t buy that in a store. I have eight jars of jam sitting all sealed and labeled looking pretty in my kitchen. I guess I’ll have to try to make it last longer than a week.

Someone down the road is selling grapes. I may have to give grape jam a try since I bought 3 dozen jelly jars. I may wait until my hands heal up from all the boiling water and molten sugar I exposed them to though.

Robinson