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i enjoy winter most of the time. :) hoses got put up today and it wasn't too bad outside in terms of temperature but the wind was blowing and the ground was wet enough that i didn't want to play in the dirt - i saved that for tomorrow.

for me the best part is no flying and no boat ride to get there.

for odd amounts or if i know i'll want something sooner i have plastic canning jar lids (both regular and wide mouth sized) that twist on and off so i don't have to waste a lid on them. we use them all the time for food storage in the fridge and cupboards (for dry goods or things that don't...

oh, yes, we've had some really bad years with catfacing or other issues, but to peel them we dunk them in near boiling water for some seconds and the skin then comes off pretty easy for peeling. i do the dunking before coring and put them in the sink of cold water to cool them back off again as...

i've always helped with cooking and canning and have lived alone on a very limited budget and done fine. my Mom raised me to know how to do everything and all of us kids were expected to do some chores. all of us cook, clean, etc.

i know myself, i would do something klutzy on the edge of a crater and fall in.

they didn't have brain-eating amoebas around back then! now they have a lot more knowledge and technology for water filtering and cleaning up... heck they also nuke it with UV light just in case!

i do enjoy it and my body needs it what i am not happy about in the process is that it takes time and i can't get it all done at once. if i didn't like dirt therapy i'd never have been able to do what i've been doing all these years. the amount of headwinds that Mom provides at times has not...

two nights in the upcoming forecast for down in the low 20sF so i need to get the hoses brought in and any gardens put up that i can get done. i should be able to finish the one i'm working on right now before we get either of those deeper cold mornings but i'd like another week of mid-50sF...

we always skin, core and then chunk the tomatoes we put up so it doesn't matter what they look like. i'm not sure what you are doing with yours to worry about what they look like? are you concerned about them looking like distinct slices or quarters or halves or something else? :)

sure, that can work (i don't think we'd spend $20 for those items here), grow your own vegetables and forage to supplement the carbs. beans (both fresh and dry), tomatoes, garlic, peppers and onions are all crops that do well for us and i'm glad to work in the gardens for what they provide...

i'm not sure about tonight... it might be something as simple as a few crackers and cheese as i had a pretty big lunch and still am not feeling very hungry. if Mom warms something up that smells good that will likely wake up my hunger. we have baked potatoes to stuff or pea and ham soup still...

Gilligan's Island? Looked like a nice place (was probably some indoor set :) )...

dug a trench in a garden, then went down the middle of it another shovel deeper to help break up the hardpan layer that is down there from eons of farming compaction and no deep ripping at all ever that i've seen any evidence of, oh and they never seemed to grow cover crops either. whenever...

as far as i know we only had school lunches subsidized (we paid half rate) for a year, but then Mom got enough work and i was mowing lawns and that was that. since then i've paid directly and indirectly to the state to more than compensate them for that measly amount - my pay at the university...