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YOU have your own calendar!!! I thought you had to be really rich to buy stuff like that!! :rolleyes:

This canning was a family affair. DD did the food prep and canning, I transported finished jars with my flexible red gardning bucket. I labelled the first jar, DH labeled the rest of the jars and DD will be cooking with ALL of the 6 jars, now back in the 6 pint jar cardboard container and...

:welcome from Central IL. BIG bean community here. Please put "Western MI" with your avatar. Once you start posting I will forget where you live. Thanks!

EWW, ERR, you take the cake for early 2025 posting!! :love

WOW! I thought deer hated garlic!

Why complain?!? They were like sweet peppermint sticks.

:gigI told DD's that they would need to can the tomatoes this week, Youngest DD bristled. So, I suggested that we freeze them,, and she "loudly bleated!!", which is like a scream, just not as scary. So her sister got a primer on canning, and did a dandy job!! (see canning thread...

Didn't know that any tractor uses regular gasoline. I was thrilled to be able to purchase my "God mower," riding mower, cheapest one that Kubota sold, Now worth $6K, gasoline. IF I could have afforded a subcompact, diesel, I would have done so bc I could use it in cold weather. But, it would...

Until a chicken has focused on your face and attacked you, you don't know how scary it is! Let us know if it's freezer camp. a Sunday chicken dinner, fried up with mashed potatoes. I know that when I was butchering my older hens several years ago, the meat was SO TENDER!!

I was SO lucky to find an inexpensive pump to remove old gasoline., $13, Harbor Freight. DH had purchased a really good one ($99) a few years back, But we use that one for diesel, and I don't want to mix them and mess up the tractor tank. BTW, we now OWN the tractor, last payment in October...

Funny, I am NOT craving super sweet things like glazed donuts or, my favorite, icing in the middle donuts. Eating vinegar slaw and canned peaches, sugar to be Sure, but a little bit healthier. Sorry, @ninnymary that your Haychia dehydration wasn't successful. We dehydrated tomatoes this Fall...

I had to write in to tell you that I am still in the world. I had my knee surgery early afternoon on Halloween, success! All of my hospital caregivers have said, "you Had to start with the hardest surgery first!" I have everything I need on the first floor and I am experiencing the wonders of...

I am home healing from my knee replacement surgery, which took place Halloween. Family has been Wonderful!! With ripening tomatoes on the kitchen table eldest DD stepped in to can them. She will probably need to start a new batch tomorrow. I broke the job down to 2 days: 1) boil and deskin and...

It is HOT and humid, feeling like August, GUSTY winds, burn ban, rain overnight and early tomorrow morning. Turned OFF the heat, opened up the windows, about to wash my sneakers in a load and I intend to tie them on the outside railing to dry. Should take aBOUT an hour.

Start your broth on a Friday morning, finish on a Sunday afternoon, OR do it on a 3 day weekend. Women used to keep a fire and broth going in their fireplaces, and they would drop in bones and vegetables, and then ladle out as needed. THAT is where I got this idea. A better crockpot with a...

We were hoping NOT to crack the post. NOTE to self next Spring: Dig the other side of the post deeper, like 2 1/2 ft deep and 18 inches wide. We were lucky that didn't happen to an 8 ft tall, 8 inch diameter and 3 ft in the ground wooden fencepost didn't crack in 2. The compact tractor had NO...

I have abused my crock pots and cooked down beef and turkey bones with vegetables and sometimes onion powder and garlic powder running the crock pot for up to3 days straight on HIGH. :th Then,, I drain the broth and toss the bones and used vegetables before canning. I use not so good but NOT...

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Finished dehydrating. Last was the jalepanoes that a friend gave me. I put a plastic garbage bag on top of my tablecloth and moved them with salad tongs to a pint jar with a glass lid. Jar is in front of 3 1/2 quarts of tomatoes, and more will be canned before the tomatoes play out.

Finished 3 1/2 more quarts of tomatoes, preceded by the 3 leftover green sweet peppers from the Salsa Party chili, followed by the jalepanoes a friend gave me. I put the trays of jalepanoes on top of a garbage bag so it wouldn't heat up my plastic tablecloth. Those glass Ball jars with the...