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  1. Finnie

    Nascent chicken food forest

    This is the story of my life! I have this meme saved and I use it a lot.:love
  2. Finnie

    Nascent chicken food forest

    Hard to say about your plant list fitting the way you have it planned, since there is no scale or measurements. But what I will usually do when I’m figuring out where to plant trees and shrubs, is look up what size they could get to and divide that in half. Then make sure there is at least that...
  3. Finnie

    FarmerJamie - A new beginning

    Well, now you know where the neighbor thinks/would like it to be… Whoever buys our property someday will be completely wrong if they go by me and my neighbor’s mowing line! 🤣 But we have super nice neighbors and I’m sure they will introduce themselves and explain about the tree line, their...
  4. Finnie

    Thoughts on planting on driveway cut?

    What about some ornamental grasses? Then you wouldn’t have to mow. I have found zebra and porcupine grass to be pretty tough.
  5. Finnie

    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    @farmerjan do you think the little twin got any colostrum? Is it too late to give it some now?
  6. Finnie

    2024 Solar Eclipse

    DH and I enjoyed it. We had 3.5 minutes of totality here. I’d say it got about as dark as dusk, like when the sun is set but you can still see to lock up the chickens. Speaking of which, I was interested to see how they would act. I wondered if they would go to roost. But no, the switch from...
  7. Finnie

    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    I have used a few of the jars of beans I canned earlier this year. They were way mushy! (Still edible and tasted good though.) Next time I am going to do the No soak method you recommended. I am now of the opinion that soaking before canning is way overkill. I also think I will try this baked...
  8. Finnie

    Basic Homesteading Skills You Should Learn

    This is what I did this winter with canning!
  9. Finnie

    All About Vacuum Sealing

    I find myself at a different Costco today, and they have a good deal on bags:
  10. Finnie

    Official SS Poll: What is your primary reason for gardening?

    This is my main reason. But :hide you all are talking about vegetable gardening. I’m pretty much just a flower-aholic. I think I got this one from TEG. Oh duh, it says so right on it! I plan to start growing some vegetables. I don’t have a lot of spots where the chickens can’t get them. I...
  11. Finnie

    2024 Solar Eclipse

    I am in the path.
  12. Finnie

    FarmerJamie - A new beginning

    This. Has anybody else noticed that the older you get, the faster a year goes by? Can you believe it’s been four (FOUR!) years since the Covid lockdown? There are certain things I do at specific times of the year. If it’s a spring thing, and I’m too busy that spring, well, I guess I’ll shoot...
  13. Finnie

    FarmerJamie - A new beginning

    You are right to not yell or bark orders. For me that only causes me to go into defensive mode, to protect myself and my stuff. (And my hopes and my dreams? Because my “stuff” is there because I hope and dream to use it one day?) The fact that she mentions that things are “worth something”...
  14. Finnie

    FarmerJamie - A new beginning

    You DO have quite the Torani collection! My two are gone. I threw the yucky Peach one away when the ants showed up a couple weeks ago and this morning I used up the one I put in the fridge. So no more Torani for me until ant season is over. Good job emptying boxes! We are thinning out our...
  15. Finnie

    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    Ready to drink lemonade this time. 3 regular and 2 strawberry. The Presto can’t water bath quart jars because there isn’t enough room for an inch of water above them. So I’m pressure canning them. Which is a little overkill. Apparently nobody ever pressure cans lemonade- I couldn’t come up with...
  16. Finnie

    All About Vacuum Sealing

    Costco didn’t have any. I’ll keep checking whenever I go. I sealed up some turkey breast chunks and that went well. First time I had any moisture leak into the drip tray. Not much, easy to wipe out with a paper towel.
  17. Finnie

    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    Wow, thank you so much everybody! Farmer Jamie, I don’t know if you have an Aldi close by, but mine had a similar shelf to these but only 3 feet wide instead of 4 feet. Only $49! I read that each store only gets one shipment, and when they’re gone, that’s it. I got 2. Haven’t opened them up...
  18. Finnie

    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    Had an almost 3 week break from canning. 😂 I took my frozen limes out of the freezer a few days ago to thaw and then was to busy to bother. But today I noticed they were starting to turn brown, so I decided that I would can the limeade today. From 10# of limes, I got just over 8 cups of...
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