I got our third sack of green chiles this morning from Wagner’s Farm.  The photo series shows the chile roasting process.  After we let them stream in the bag for a couple of hours Laurie peeled them, took out the seeds, put them in quart freezer bags and stacked them in the freezer. We are planning on putting up eight sacks this year. All we could put up last year with both of us having health crisis was four — we ran out of chiles in May.

I cut a hole in the floor in the study while Laurie was processing chiles. The floor buckled slightly, and there was a soft spot under the oak parquet, so I had to cut out the soft spot to see what was going on. The under layment had been wet, probably from when the water heater leaked and flooded the laundry room and study many years ago. Why it decided to start coming apart now, and in a place we don’t walk very often, remains a mystery. I reinforced the structure under the floor and pieced the parquet back together until I can find some new parquet to replace it with. Lowe’s didn’t have parquet when I went by late this afternoon, and I didn’t have time to check Home Depot.  I’ll probably end up ordering it from Amazon.com since it has it.

I also replaced the faucet on the kitchen sink this afternoon. It had been leaking on the outside, around where the neck swivels for quite a while; but in the last week or so it started leaking around the bottom of the faucet under the sink and got everything in the cabinet under the sink wet.