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Our soil isn't warm enough for outside planting. I'm assuming that your green beans are in flats in a greenhouse.

Goodwill in my area raised the price of their jars to $.99. Absolutely insane. Now I get them at estate sales, on the LAST day, for 50 cents or less. I also have no qualms buying old boxes of lids. There is more red rubber on those older lids than nowadays.

I've not heard of charo beans, so looked them up. Its a recipe and boy it sounds good!!

I love both your kids, Bay. You provided lots of healthy chicken to your DD and you've helped your son alot as he moves around the states for work. And you've got those terrific girls as Granddaughters to boot!!

I drug my son with me a couple of weeks ago when that soil was on sale. I managed to coax him to load up 6 bags for me. Cheaper than anywhere else at that price.

Last week some various types of beef roasts were on sale for $5 a lb. I bought four of them, then chunked them up. I finally got around to canning it all. 10 pints of beef chunks, which will make alot of meals for us. Expensive but I did need to keep some beef around.

I just read up on Mantis in Washington State. They are the European type, not native. Up here, they are supposedly not an effective pest control species. So I don't think I'll order any. There sure were alot of them for sale on eBay.

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$3.25 an hour at the Sears Candy Counter in Rochester NY.

My husband has eye cancer. Inside. Its grown over the last 1.5 years. We went to OHSU a teaching and research hospital in Portland OR. He has four options: 1. Remove the eye as a preventative measure against ocular melanoma. NOPE 2. The tumor is leaking fluid on each of the long sides. Get...

Wow! Mine are in baby food jars and small envelopes. WAY TO GO!!!

I worked at the food bank yesterday and am pulling a double shift today. Its always busier at the beginning of the month vs the end. The amount of food we give is not enough to sustain you for the month. Its a helping hand.

My DD loved Italy. They spent 10 days there. She's going back at some point.

I'm nervous. I know there is an end game, but I'm still nervous. So when my Safeway had 80/20 hb in 1 lb packs on sale yet again for $2.99, I got four and then used my son's account to get four more. I'll be cooking them down and then canning them up into pints. Safeway also had a roast on...