Thursday's Odds and Ends.

You know the old saying, the blind leading the blind?
Well, I have a new one that occurred today.
'The Deaf leading the Deaf.'

My neighbor across the street is in her mid or late 70's.
She wears a hearing aid but she still has a lot of issues.
She texts me and asked if I could listen to a voicemail she received.
I laughed when I read this. If Rick were home, he'd be hysterical.

So I walked over to her home knowing this was a welcome diversion from sitting in my office. She gave me her phone and I listened and told her what it said she had to do. It was her bank regarding her security deposit box.

But boy that made me giggle.
I told her Rick will never believe I helped someone actually hear something.
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In other goofy news of things I did.
Rick snores. Rick snores something terrible and that's a fact.
I will generally put my hand slowly on his back and it will just stop him.
I do not normally snore, or so Rick tells me.
Who can hear anything over him though? :-)

Anyway, I was sleeping and apparently, Rick was lying there wide awake.
I  turned over and made a snorting sound and then my hand went to Rick's back as though I was trying to stop him from snoring. That made him crack up.
Actually, that is pretty funny.
So, of course, this morning he is convinced it has been me snoring all along.
Yes, in your dreams buddy. You make the bed and the room vibrate as if a train is coming through.  So not likely it is always me,  but it is pretty damn funny that I did that.
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Our jalapeno's and cherry bomb peppers have been great this year.
Everything else is drowning from a month straight of rain. I pulled all my petunias because they were killed by that month of heavy rain. We had a nice crop of tomatoes but not as great as years past.  It's thundering as I type this right now. I am officially done with this rain. I prefer it over snow and cold. But months straight of anything are horrible.

Last night I made hot pepper jelly with the jalapenos.
I LOVE hot pepper jelly over cream cheese with crackers. Yummo.
I love heat so this is right up my alley.

This was my first time attempting to make it though.
Boy, it was easy. No canning stuff. Just chop, put ingredients in a pot, boil, stir and ladle into jars. Easy peasy. But did it work? It is solid as jam/jelly is. But I have not opened it yet. I'm dying to though. I was surprised that the recipe had other assorted colors of peppers in it. I used orange, red and yellow along with the jalapenos. (yes seeds and all, I like hot)

I wore thin rubber gloves to rough chop all the hot peppers. Last time I chopped up this many hot peppers even after washing my hands it sent me through the roof when I touched my eye. WOWSA. So I got the latex gloves Rick uses at work and I put those on.
Seems silly but it worked!!

It looks like it's done correctly. I'll let you know after I eat some.
I have quite a few so I am going to give some away. I wish it could be frozen. But I would think this would be gross once frozen. Anyone ever do that?