[CottonBall]

I was missing granny's threads and friendship again recently. And the knowledge on her threads!

For instance, a poster and I were discussing how long canning lids last. In my heyday of prepping, I bought 2 cases of Ball lids. I also bought a lot of tattler lids and have been enjoying learning how to use those. BUT I don’t know if I should be using up the Ball lids or if they will last.

And the rings on the tattlers, not sure about those either.

Nor how to best store any of them. I LOVE mylar and oxygen absorbers! But I don’t know if that’s the best way, or perhaps a foodsaver, or if they should be in my moist cool basement or in the drier, warmer house….

This subject doesn't really fit on any of the other weekly or subject-oriented threads that I know about. Sorry if I am stepping on any toes here.

Anyway, that’s the sort of thing I could ask on granny’s threads and get 5-50 responses! We could bounce around ideas and share any experiences we had.

So…here we go!

(I hope someone else will join me here, LOL!)

BTW, I’m now an East Tennessee Appalachian granny, so I figured I could start this thread – in memory of nw_arizona_granny.

[JustaCowgirl]

Thank you, CottonBall. This will be a great thread. I would love to hear more about your pressure canner. Here’s to the skills that make us more independent.

I lived in East Tennessee for 20 years. Lots of people with old-time know-how in some parts.

[pollyshy]

bfl

[Nailbiter]

later perusal

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Kurt Schlichter Dystopian Fiction

This series provides a powerful warning about the dark future the anti-constitutional and law defying conduct and trends of today could bring to America.

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (2016) Kelly Turnbull Book-1
Political and cultural divisions split the United States apart into two separate nations: red states and blue states.
As the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny former US Army Special Forces agent Kelly Turnbull infiltrates and seeks his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of North America.

INDIAN COUNTRY (2017) Kelly Turnbull Book-2
Kelly Turnbull returns to the blue states to help those trapped there resist the politically correct police state.
As the progressive government ratchets up the violence he works to mold regular Americans into a fighting force capable of resisting the People’s Republic Army.

WILDFIRE (2018) Kelly Turnbull Book-3
Blue America teeters on the edge of chaos and collapse when Kelly Turnbull is called out of retirement for a crucial job that turns out to be a deadly trap. Then he must go deep undercover inside the crumbling People’s Republic’s secret police force to stop a jihadi threat that could kill millions in both red and blue America.

COLLAPSE (2019) Kelly Turnbull Book-4
The socialist People’s Republic is falling apart, held together only by the murderous thugs of the blue states’ government. They ally themselves with the communist Chinese who begin to carve out a colony in the blue states. The United States red states mobilize for war to stop the Chinese and attempt to reunify the country split apart a decade before.

CRISIS (2020) Kelly Turnbull Book-5
Prequell; The story of how the United States reaches the point where it separates into two countries.
The remaining United States is comprised of the conservative red states and the new People's Republic of North America is comprised of the coastal
and mid-western blue states.