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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...

I will look into those. It very well may be the cheap bags. After trying the air bubble in water test, I removed the limes and let those two bags dry, and today I resealed them (with the limes). They are holding fine this time. I put some of the limes into a third bag, and I noticed when...

I’m good at my phone, but not good at my Husband’s iPad. It’s similar but too different.

Yesterday I found limes on sale at Walmart for 25 cents each! 5 of them made a pound, so that was $1.25/#. I got 10 pounds! :celebrate I will be canning limeade soon, but first I want to freeze them. So this was my first test of the vacuum sealer. For the first one I kind of wasted some from...

Walmart had limes on sale for 25 cents each! I weighed them, and it worked out that 10 limes was 2 pounds. So $1.25 per pound! I got 10 pounds! :hide And I had just cleaned my canner and put it back in the cupboard today. That’s ok. I read that if you freeze them, they will release their juice...

No, we don’t get earthquakes here. Well, there actually was a tiny one about 20 years ago. It was in Southern Indiana, but we could feel a little vibrate-ey feeling here. I noticed it but I think my husband did not. I agree with you though, you would want to secure those canned goods. Would be...

Oh, thanks for the tip about liquid. The manual talks about the overflow tray, but here I was thinking I would be careful and not do actual liquid, so my tray would stay clean. 😂