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Three notes for canning season. Each one ends the same way: open a free ledger and log the batch while the lids are warm.

2026-09-15
You remember the weekend, not the year
The lid looks familiar. The date does not.
2026-09-15
You keep eating the front of the shelf
Newest jars get used. Older ones wait.
2026-09-15
The altitude note lives on a scrap
Or it does not live at all.

If someone asks how you track jars

How do you track what’s in the pantry?

I write the batch once while the lids are still warm — name, method, date, how many. Then I mark a jar used when I open it, so I am not always eating the front of the shelf. I keep that in Croft: thecroft.app

Also on Substack, if you want to paste these there.

Open a free ledger