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    All About Vacuum Sealing

    I find myself at a different Costco today, and they have a good deal on bags:
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    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...
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    2024 Solar Eclipse

    I am in the path.
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    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...
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    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”...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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.
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    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...
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    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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    All About Vacuum Sealing

    Oh, I did see foodsavers, both machines and refill rolls, last time I was at Costco. I stood there looking for a while, but wasn’t at the point yet of knowing what brand I wanted to get. I’ll have to check there when I need more bags. Will be soon, because my $10 package is half gone.
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    All About Vacuum Sealing

    We played around with the vacuum sealer some more tonight. It seems to fail more often than it gets it right. The suction will be on, but the air doesn’t leave the bag. Or else it sucks most of the air out and then quits while there is still too much air. Or, it looks really good, and then as...
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    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    Is it the self checkout lane where your mom is losing her checks? Maybe she should go to a regular lane when she wants to write a check? For a long time, I persisted in using my checkbook for groceries. Once they started scanning my check in their machine and handing it back to me, I realized...
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