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Thanksgiving's next weekend for us in the great white north- mum and I were just starting to plan it out yesterday.. If the weather stays nice we'll all eat outside in my backyard (in the orchard), and chefbrother is coming down from toronto to fire up our big stone wood oven out back and he'll...

Wow! Super lucky! Nothing yummier than fresh pressed cider :D

Wow! Those are gorgeous!

I think lehman's carries the rubber rings, which you can order online :) I have a whole slew of old crown jars with the glass lids- can I use those for canning with new rubber rings? I don't see how they are much different than the weck jars that are all the rage in europe now (and are so...

So I started turning over my Crown jars too... and some on the pints had dates on the bottom, some from the forties, some the fifties.. My larger quart blue tinted Crown that I'm currently using as a lamp shade in the kitchen doesn't have a date :( I have yet to venture down to my cold cellar...

Cool! Now I gotta go around my house and peek at all my gem jars- my toothbrushes are sitting in one as I type... Thanks moolie!

Finally- strawberry jam! yahoo, roll on summer :) Hopefully making scape pesto too!

Made my own baby wipes.. and made some jam, yum!

Thanks for the info! I'm always forgetting which numbers are safer to use and which aren't. Finding alternatives is sometimes tricky - plastic is everywhere! Grandma bought my little one a blow-up pool last summer and I was very aware that the sun on that plastic would be leaching all kinds of...

On a side note: How do I grind my own flour? I'm not ready to buy an electric grain mill (they are pretty spendy). And I keep thinking of Laura Ingalls and family grinding their wheat in that little coffee grinder... So, I happen to have an old 'clamp it to the counter" coffee grinder. Would...

If you have a pretty good internet connection, you might want to look into being a "search engine quality rater". I worked online for a time as a google quality rater and it was great. I had a minimum number of hours i had to work each week, but could choose when I wanted to work, and how many...

I have a combination oil/wood furnace in the basement and we have used both over the few winters we have been here. Wood was cheap, but required a lot of work (chopping, hauling, lighting a few big fires over the course of the day etc.) Oil is more expensive, but it's much easier and the temp is...

My kitchen overfloweth, I've got 22 jars of dill pickles done. I washed the cukes in the washing machine (gentle, no soap!)- it totally worked and saved a ton of time. Anyone else do this?

Canning strike today :D , but I did 10 pints of hot salsa yesterday and it's dill pickles tomorrow.

4 pints of peach jam today!