Ticking off my list.

I filled my slow cooker with dried fruits, chopped apples, brown sugar, spices and coconut oil, cooked on high heat for an hour, low hear for 2 hours.

Let it cool, use clean jars, mincemeat is done for this coming season. The posh jar will be part of a hand made gift. The 4 smaller jars will be stored longer, the bigger jar will be used for a test run, if I can talk hubby into making pies.

This juice was left over, the dark lower section if from the fruit mixed with the spices, the top section coconut oil, which will solidify, normally discarded, this year I will use the lower section to soak my dried fruit for my Christmas cake, the coconut oil I will add to the cake mix, adjusting the butter weight.

Happy with Wednesdays rainfall on Thursday morning just over 20ml, the garden us looking good.

Wednesday we were inside all day, the rain was relentless, it's that time of year when the spice drifts through the house, it was lovely, I was a bit later doing this, I have everything ready for my cakes, I will wait a couple of weeks before baking, we have visitors due and it's best not to have cakes everywhere.

I sat at my desktop doing a final, final check on my 2025 book, any time at this stage of the task is well spent. I read each page again, checked the placement of text boxes and photo's, did a final spell check, now I'm good to go, Thursday morning I had an email 50% off and free shipping, 2025 has been sent to the printers, the free delivery made it cheapest book for a few years.

I need to check my wildlife camera settings, I saw the first nights recordings, since then I have not been able to view later recordings, it keeps asking for a password and then flipping me over to strange page with no password sections, as yet I have not inputted any passwords. 

Today we are meeting daughter for coffee and chat and a look at toys for some hints, hoping to get ahead again this year.