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It tastes like the koolaid that you add to it. 3 cups of beet juice 1 packet of unsweetened koolaid (raspberry, strawberry, or black cherry work the best) 1 packet of sure jel 4 cups sugar add the koolaid and surejel to the beet juice, bring to a boil, boil for a minute, dump all the sugar at...

14 more quarts of pickled peaches and 9 pints of pickled beets. I would have been able to get about 3 pints of beet jelly done, but didn't have the right koolaid flavors at home.

Wow - how did you manage that?!!!!! That's awesome.

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My poor trees are so loaded that we have the branches supported, and that's after plucking off 3/4s of them this spring, so they grow bigger. My Wolf Rivers are already 5 inches across, and this is still a young tree. In a couple of years, they should be almost 7 inches across. Plus, with...

Plus, it's going to feel good to help her.

:DWorked with my oldest at the church produce wagon on Saturday for a couple of hours. (Part of the mandatory volunteering if your kid goes to school there, but it's fun.) After the pickle marathon the day before, I kind of had the brine recipe floating in my brain. Had an older lady...

Neighbor offered me some beets. So, I got enough for 3-4 pints of pickled beets. Then, he came back over later and asked if I would have time to pickle his, too. So, he brought over jars, lids, vinegar, and sugar - for me to do the whole batch (I'll use my own jars and lids) and he's going to...

5 quarts of pickled peaches. The rest of the bushel has to ripen a bit more, so they aren't rocks. Then I'll be busy!

She must be fine, she's playing in the sprinkler with the older kids. I think I mentioned pickle marathon in there somewhere. They. Just. Wouldn't. Stop. I swear, the more I cut up, the more there were.

Between last night and this morning, I got 45 quarts of dill pickles done. Slices and spears to midgets from sweet dill to sour dill to spicy dill. THen, got the phone call that my bushel of peaches are in. I suppose I need to go get those this afternoon. However, my children have been...

Somedays, you just need to read about other people's mishaps and "horrible" children to realize that you aren't the only one. The three oldest are now playing in the sprinkler and the monster is finally sleeping.

It's no consolation, but while I was sitting down after doing 45 quarts of pickles this morning, my kids were quietly trying to kill each other. My 4 year-old came down the stairs, and I was hollering at her to head back upstairs. Poor thing comes over to me, dripping blood, saying that you...

Pear sauce, canned pears, pickled pears, brandied pears, cinnamon pears, dehydrated pear slices, pear tart, poached pears,

2nd the Land's End - even if you wreck it, which before my 8 year old, I didn't think was possible, they will replace. ok, I buy tons of their stuff directly from them on super sale.

I did about the same thing with my ankle a year and a half ago. Still messed up, should have gone in, but everyone who looked at it after it turned into the size of grapefruit, said it's swollen, so not broken. Yeah, I'd watch it and go in swelling doesn't go down.

43 quarts and 4 pints of pickles - 7 quarts of jalapeno dills, 14 quarts of sweet dills, and the rest are sour dills. Have to go pick up my bushel of peaches later today and probably a bushel of 2nds, to make peach puree and fruit leather with. Good thing I got this far, because I ran out of...

BUT, you save money every day, so sometimes that gives the rest of us motivation to do more! Congrats on a job well done.

My cucumber plants have given me a whoopin 4 cucumbers TOTAL this year, so I scored a bushel (2 FULL brown paper bags) of cucumbers, great pickling size, for $20. Lady even threw in dill. Got the garlic free from Dad! Now, I just to get some more jars. Have a call in to someone who listed...

Just having the wherewithall to realize that He is responsible for the way things are going is getting you halfway there to figuring out what to do with it. Remember, sometimes the best way to take care of yourself and your situation is to be willing to give away more than you get. You never...