Passivhaus: creating a roadmap to net zero carbon

So if you’re feeling crafty this year and think you want to make yourself a wreath out of fresh greenery, save yourself the headache and the 45-minutes of trying to turn your pine oval into a wreath, and take the easy (and pretty) way out!Just as promised, here’s yet another progress report on the front hall!.

The next day I picked up a baby thermometer at the store and it was in the same packaging.Don’t worry, no one was sick, I think I just left my old one on a hotel bathroom counter somewhere at some point this Summer and it’s something I like to always have around.

After going through that same struggle I thought “There has to be a better way!!”.I put on my thinking cap and grabbed the second new knife, the one that was still in the packaging, to do some experimenting.. My first thought was to find some garden pruners so I went out to the mud room where we use.an old shoe rack to keep all of our garden tools.

or other tools that we need to grab quickly from time to time.Also, this is the resting place for tools that we use that haven’t made it back out to the garage to be put away for real yet.

Guess what I found!

The perfect thing!.Boil for about 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

Remove from the heat and ladle into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4 inch of head space.Place the new lids on top of your jars and close them up with the metal bands until they’re just finger tight.

Process in a boiling water canner for 5 minutes.See how easy that was?.