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As fall is quickly approaching, I thought it was necessary to harvest a bunch of my serrano peppers from the garden and preserve them for the winter. I wanted to pickle some of them so that I can use them in my superbowl chili and other exciting winter dishes. I bought some glass jars from wegmans and was pretty set to jar the peppers when jason said, "hey, don't you have to boil the jars or something?" Ha. Well, it's a good thing he said something because I didn't know about any of that stuff. His mom always makes jellies and other jarred goodies, so he had a little inkling that i was forgetting some things. We called her up and she recommended this book:

 

We bought the book and it is great. Not only did I learn how to jar my peppers safely, but I also learned better methods for drying my herbs and freezing some of the peppers for different uses. So, now I have canned hot peppers, frozen some peppers, frozen some garden fresh salsa, and am looking forward to drying my herbs this week!

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As soon as the new nano was announced, I knew I wanted one. My nano is a little flaky (I blame it on the Nike+ thing because it's now happened to three separate nano ipods), so I was definitely ready for a new one. Monday morning I opened my laptop to check the fedex status of my ipod and my macbook stopped responding. I rebooted it and it wouldn't come back to life. at all.

Luckily, jason is smart and was able to do some sort of single user mode thing to attach a usb hard drive to grab my pictures, music, docs, and recipes. After he was done copying most of the important data, the hard drive started clicking and wouldn't move anymore. So, I took the laptop to the genius bar today and they confirmed it was dead. In fact, it was so dead that it would no longer click even. Thank goodness I had enough foresight to purchase Apple care, so the repair would be under warranty. They told me it would be a few days before I could get it back, but then just three hours later they called with my laptop ready to go! I have to say the entire Genius bar experience was really good for me. They even replaced my keyboard faceplate that had turned brown even though I didn't request it.

Once I got home, I could plug in my new nano too. I decided on the product (red) version because I thought it was the best color. The nano is pretty awesome so far, I even watched a free pilot from iTunes on it already. The screen is tiny, of course, but big enough to kill some time watching a little tv show. (I didn't get the shuffle also, but the only picture I could find online was from Apple)

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