Gardens are in, cordwood is stacked to dry before winter, fishing every weekend, scouting places to hunt this fall, driving a grain truck after work for wheat harvest these last few weeks to trade my time (barter) for a couple of beef cows and hogs for the freezers, rotated bulk water storage..... then theres my day job.....:o)
Stay Safe !
We’ve been picking fruit. Put up 15 1/2 pints of strawberry preserves, tonight is sour cherry preserves, and red raspberry preserves. (I’ll send you a jar of something)
Been jerking beef 5 pounds at a time using various recipes. The Excalibur dehydrator I picked up off Craigslist for $65 is getting a workout. Local cherries dry out amazingly well. They’re delicious.
We’ve got a Foodsaver so we vac seal lots of stuff.
Costco had USDA Prime New York Strip, whole, for $10.99 a pound the other day! We got a nice roast a dozen 1-1/2 inch thick steaks off it. All vac sealed and in the deep freeze.
Garden is in and growing nicely. Pole and bush beans, beets, tomatoes, and yellow, purple, and orange peppers. Beans and beets will pickle and can well.
Herbs include chives, thyme, rosemary, oregano, will all dry and keep essentially forever.
Fishing when we have time. It freezes and cans, too!
Staying busy with one eye on the sky.
Best,
L
A little behind on the preps since we moved here, no garden any more. The head on crash last Jan didn’t help either.
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