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Started mucking out the goosehouse. Can't get the organics smell off my fingers. Finishing pickles with my fingers smelling like this feels dodgy. Maybe I'll seed a bunch of tomatoes and see if that helps.

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76 jars of mixed pickles/gardinieria), 71 sealed and as-yet-uneaten. Definitely a record for a single type of thing in one go (though there are different brines and chop sizes), that plus the strawberries are a record for a week, I think, and still plougjman's ploughman's pickle tomorrow and Minnesota mix Sunday to go.

Water bathing on the propane ring outdoors instead of the stovetop is really nice.

Inmoculating mushroom logs, getting straw, and putting back the carport in the next two days too.

In some ways the joy of a vacation is getting to do things without stopping until I'm tired, without carefully metering out my spare hour or two per day. I'm tired. Hope you are well.