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Today I'm canning the last of this year's tomato harvest. I may hit the 100 quart mark for tomatoes this year.

I had some Buffs who were just wonderful with the kids. Whenever my little girl would go outside and sit down there would be a goose in her lap. I hear that Pilgrims are even more friendly BUT they are very, very messy and when they started beating up on my turkeys they had to go.

One word: Cujo. No, just kidding. I've known several SBs in my time and they were ALL wondrous, friendly good family dogs. Drawbacks are short life spans and GROOMING but if you're ready for that they are amazing dogs. Possibly not the most intelligent dogs but with the lab and retriever...

Here's the wonderful chicken house (it's actually a chicken/turkey house) that Greg built for me. I'm telling you there are people who don't live this nicely. The house is 10 x 16 but remember that lots of roosting places will effectively double or even triple your space. We currently have 8...

I do pressure can them but then I pressure can most everything except jellies and jams and fruit. I would imagine that they could be bwb'd I just never have. I pressure can my onions for 20 minutes should be at 10 pounds sea level but I'm at 6800 feet.

Slice 'em, put them in a roaster with a little chicken stock and roast until they're pretty golden brown. Can them in half pints and use for EVERYTHING. They are wondrous just out of the jar for topping hamburgers, throw them in meatloaf, put them in soups, stews, casseroles, omelets...

Do they still have that mushroom texture, meaning do they get mushy or anything when you cook them before canning? Like I said, I've always raw packed because I was afraid of them getting too "cooked" tasting but I think I'm going to try it your way the next time we get a really good sale on...

Oh, I have got to can some more mushrooms!!! How did you get that pretty broth with your 'shrooms? I usually just raw pack with water and salt which tastes great but yours look so much prettier.

I did something this morning that I do not recommend and would not admit to anyone else but you experienced canners and I'm curious as to why it worked. Here's the deal: I worked all weekend processing my late harvest of tomatoes into the most wonderful, fresh tasting tomato sauce EVER. Then I...

I've tried for seven years to grow grapes here in Colorado and I cannot get them to grow to save my soul. Remember that I have a green thumb and used to buy plants that the grocery store floral department lady had killed and I would bring them back to life. But Grapes? I just can't get them...

My kids started doing chores before they could walk. First I carried them around while we picked up their toys and then we crawled around together and picked up toys and then we toddled around and picked up toys. By the time they went to school they were responsible for their own toys, taking...

I know that when my daughter started she had a friend who was using the diva cup and tried to talk Dani into using it. They were about 15 at that time.

I belong to a canning group and know a woman who does this quite often. Of course sometimes the seal fails but she just eats whatever it is and doesn't worry about it. I do my canning in such massive quantities that I'd be terrified I'd have several seal failures and some product would go to...

Eostra, Eostre or Ostara are all names for the Pagan celebration of spring, rebirth, and fertility. This celebration with it's accompanying symbols like the egg and new flowers is the origin of Easter.

Pagan here too so we will be planting seeds while I tell them the Ostara story.

Annie has type 1 diabetes so we have to keep the candy to a minimum. So they'll each get a chocolate bunny and a couple of eggs filled with candy (we have an easter egg hunt so amount can vary), bubbles, sunglasses, balls, cars, books and sunscreen.

We had a grasshopper problem two years ago. Not exactly plague proportions but worse than I'd ever seen it. I let the girlies run free in the greenhouse (we lost everything that wasn't in the greenhouse to hoppers) and they saved my tomato crop.

Yea!!!! It's about time!

I did not have a midwife for any of my births but then I'm old and my last bio child was born in '91. Since my first one was an emergency C-sec my doctor insisted that all of my children be born C-sec and I'd been well-indocrinated into the "female is a medical condition" theory. If I had it...

Well, it sounds like one of the problems is the age-old "it costs more to eat healthy foods than junk." I see that the cost of a school lunch went up after ol' Jamie revamped things. It's hard to argue with the logic that I can go get my kid a burger and fries for a buck and know that he'll...