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What about some ornamental grasses? Then you wouldn’t have to mow. I have found zebra and porcupine grass to be pretty tough.

@farmerjan do you think the little twin got any colostrum? Is it too late to give it some now?

DH and I enjoyed it. We had 3.5 minutes of totality here. I’d say it got about as dark as dusk, like when the sun is set but you can still see to lock up the chickens. Speaking of which, I was interested to see how they would act. I wondered if they would go to roost. But no, the switch from...

I have used a few of the jars of beans I canned earlier this year. They were way mushy! (Still edible and tasted good though.) Next time I am going to do the No soak method you recommended. I am now of the opinion that soaking before canning is way overkill. I also think I will try this baked...

This is what I did this winter with canning!

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

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...

I am in the path.

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...

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”...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...