Recent content by flowerbug

oh man, don't get me started... i pretty much cannot garden with or around Mom for very long because she'll start in on things and no i'm not incompetent, etc. so... yeah... i'm already revved up and i'm not continuing this rant because it would be as long as this website (or i feel sometimes...

true, we don't have rust issues unless we put them in the fridge or freezer for long enough. i've yet to run out of rings (and we've been doing this at this place for almost 30yrs). normally when buying new jars you get rings and lids with them and those few cases a year we buy seem to be...

@akroberts mentioned in another thread about pressure canning about learning and we all had to start somewhere so i wrote a reply there thinking it was this thread instead. so now i'm putting this reply here because it fits more under canning in general. as far as i'm concerned the most...

to celebrate snow on the ground this morning i was playing Christmas music. it makes Mom laugh. :) i shovelled for a few minutes (just because some fresh air and exercise would be nice and it was). the sun is out and the sky is blue. sparkles on snow, but the snow will soon be melted off at...

10 minutes isn't that much and i was very glad it was not yet another brown bean (if it was i'd have likely let it stay in the bag).

this morning's adventure in bean sorting and shelling was an unlucky bounce when the bean i was looking at was dropped and managed to bounce off the flat and into the bag of shelled out pods and rejects. it was one of about a dozen beans that i was interested in so i shook the bag to get the...

new generic type lids or name brand lids? i've never seen bubbles in the name brand lids.

as i was shelling out some Purple Dove beans last night (after doing a different box of mixed beans with much tougher pods to shell) i was thinking i should try to make a short video of that since they are so easy to do in comparison - except i don't have a stand or tri-pod for the camera and...

if i were doing that i'd be the same, meat is expensive enough to not want to risk it.

i've not been having issues with any new lids in many years. oh, after the last shortage of Ball lids, there were a few boxes that had 13 lids in them and some were stuck together but there was no issue with the sealing layer it was smooth as it should be. years before that i'd had some...

our forecast upped the inches of snow to three to four more today/tonight/tomorrow, but it all melts off later this week.

yesterday was easy, Mom brought home food from an event she went to with a friend, on the way out she mentioned they'd have food there so i put in an order and it happened. sloppy joe, hot dog with sloppy joe on top of it, egg roll, all edible but very bland (which was good for Mom because then...

this is an aside but it fits with the topic of food distribution centers and i find it interesting: " In Auroville, the universal township where I live, there is an amazing project called Pour Tous (‘for everyone’ in French) Distribution Center. It is a food cooperative where all the members...

finished up (ok, almost, i still need to move some dirt back but that will only take about 10-20 minutes) the garden i started on yesterday so that means i can get on to the tomato patch next week sometime when we get a warmer break in the weather and i can get back outside.

we have a forecast that includes a possible inch of snow (tomorrow, tomorrow night and into Monday). i'll believe it when i see it... i can't remember the last time we had snow this early in November but i think i recall it was a very cold winter that seemed to go on forever. i suspect i will...