I was busy trying to catch up with life. I think I’m almost there, for now. Garden’s in, school’s out, volunteer obligations down to one, took a women’s gun safety class, Mother’s Day, birthday, Memorial Day, caught up on Atlas Shrugged and this thread. Now let’s see if I can keep it up - LOL. Looking forward to trying out the canner and maybe drying some stuff once it gets growing. I checked and my peas, onions, and cukes are up today.
Miss a few days around here and it’s worse than missing a day of school way back when. :) At least there’s no tests (yet)
I hear ya. A gun safety class sounds good - I should look into that. We have guns galore, but I’m pretty cautious around them.
Are you on the Atlas Shrugged thread? It’s a pretty good one here. I don’t keep up as well as I should and sometimes use the synopsis the leaders posts in lieu of reading the entire chapter. But... it’s better than not keeping up at all and dropping it!
I tried planting potatoes for the first time - they are growing like mad. I need to bring them up to the mountains to test if they’ll produce up there.
Yes, this thread is something else. I missed last weekend and just now got caught up. Even so, I still miss some gems that I need to know about. I missed the peppermint oil recipe until someone posted about it later on.
Well, I’m glad you’re back around!
Peanuts are up! Checked them today as I was side dressing everything before the rain came... They have pushed up almost an inch overnight.
I am finally canning!
I was a little nervous at first, but after getting the chicken mostly cooked, realized I had already completed the most labor intensive part! Now, I’m just waiting 90 minutes for it to complete. I’m using chicken out of my freezer, so I’m not expecting it to turn out wonderful - but I’m trying to lessen my dependence on power and having canned meats instead of frozen seems like a good idea.
My question to all of my mentors is: when it talks of loosely packing the meat, covering it with boiling water and leaving 1 1/4 inch of head space - it seems I can get only a few chicken pieces in a quart jar following those directions. About 2 1/2 chicken breasts cut up, to be exact. Does this sound right?