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    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    Who had the banana butter recipe! It is soooooo good! Yummy! I canned 6 pints and 4 half pints of banana butter. The bananas were 99 cents for a HUGE bag. I bought 2 bags. And 11 pints and 8 half pints of peach salsa. Walmart had peaches for 78 cents a pound!
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    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    I canned black raspberry - guava jelly today. Does anyone have a recipe for pickled garlic?
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    Old - but still working an 8 hour day.

    I know of an 83 y/o radiologist -still working and flying his airplane.
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    homemade sanitary products.....for men

    Well.......my Mom works with post tramatic brain injury patients that have um, problems in that area and they use 'condom catheters'. I know it sounds gross!! But they are washable/reusable and very sanitary.
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    Wasn't sure where to post this...but look!

    Order your seeds soon! They are selling out fast! I just got my order yesterday and they were sold out of one item that I ordered. They are so cute - they stapled 2 $1 dollar bills and taped 2 quarters to my order, as a refund.
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    Wasn't sure where to post this...but look!

    I just got my seeds from Baker's Creek yesterday! Edited to add: I took my catalog to work and everyone wanted to look at the "pretty" seed catalog.
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    Thinking about the kind of self-sufficiency that I want............

    Wow! Sounds good! :thumbsup I thought you might like this idea on how to build a greenhouse out of (free) available materials - I've learned soooo much from the Instructable website.
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    Baked Bean Recipe?

    :thumbsup Good recipe! It sounds a lot better than the one I was using "Cook the beans in a low temp. 300 degree oven for 8 to 9 hours."
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    Baked Bean Recipe?

    Does anyone have a baked bean recipe that would work for canning? I tried to make baked beans, with a low temp oven method, but they were too watery and even after 2 days of cooking they were still crunchy. And I pre-soaked the beans. :hu
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    How long would you make it??

    If there was a heat wave (like they are having in Australia) how would you prepare?
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    What are we doing to help our neighbors?

    That sounds like my neighborhood. I've given jam, fruit and veggies to my neighbors and when they gave me some leaves for my garden (grudgingly gave them after I asked for them) I brought that neighbor a thank you card and cookies. They wouldn't give me any leaves this year!! So I didn't give...
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    What's your areas most likely disaster and how are you prepared?

    Tornados, blizzard and 'Day After Tomorrow' freezing temps. Has anyone watched 'Day After Tomorrow'? Notice how the whole top of the US was frozen solid? They didn't even try to rescue anyone from the north! And I am not prepared for a natural disaster. :(
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    How do you use your space?

    Ahhh I forgot the quince tree! It hasn't produced a single quince yet, but the flowers smell nice in the spring.
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    How do you use your space?

    I have a very small fenced suburban yard. The backyard is about 75' x 50'. When I moved in 5 years ago I took out all the lawn/grass in the backyard and put in raised beds. I grow veg. and flowers and have 3 columnar apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 plum trees, 2 cherry trees and 1 apricot...
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