@HungryChris in 'da house:
You may be curious about that insanity passing for a lid. It turns out I don't have any regular-mouth lids. I have a lot of one-piece storage lids in general, so it never even occurred to me that I didn't have two free, tonight. It turns out they are all In Service, every last one.
Also -- that strange color is due to the fact that these are the Ball blue jars. My random uptown hardware store had them, in fact they were the only jars around. I don't usually pay extra for stuff like blue glass, but I did since it was my only option. I believe this is called a win-win in capitalism.
I am making a pile of winter hiking snacks involving apples; beyond that, I guess I'm not doing anything else preserve-ish until spring.
On Edit: WAIT! Saurkraut. I was waiting for some kind of frost. There may have been some frost up the Hudson Valley, so maybe next weekend I can get some saurkaut going. Yes, kraut.