38 minutes to go, then I can hit the sheets. Last of the people corn is in the pressure canner. We had it all cleaned & cut off the cobs; the packing water was hot, and the canner was bubbling, when I went downstairs to get the jars. Uh-oh! WE WERE OUT. Turned everything off, and put the corn in the fridge.
Hard freeze tonight, so picked all that couldn’t withstand it this morning, before leaving for the day. Since we had to retrieve a repaired water tank in Rapid City, we also got more jars; and since my corn cutter broke, got a new one of those, too.
When we got home, we spent just over 2 hours shelling the speckled butterbeans from this morning; they filled an extra large sized plastic sack. I had no idea 25 or 30 bushes could produce so many! That is in addition to the fully matured ones I was picking nearly every day for the last 2 weeks.
By the end of next week, we’ll probably have everything out, except maybe the potatoes & Brussels sprouts.
While in Rapid, I also bought a couple of hundred pounds of chicken & rabbit feed; I went to town Wednesday, and got the nasty surprise that our feed store had gone out of business. Next closest is an extra 15 miles each way. Due to local politics, and old family resentments, the city zoning inspector (an A-H by any measure) had been giving them grief at every turn, ever since they opened.
As soon as the corn is finished, it gets turned off, and can sit inside the canner until morning; and I can ge to bed.
I am exhausted just reading about all you did. Sorry about the feed store. We still have ours, but we don’t have many businesses in our small town.
The only entertainment is the bowling alley, some bars, and an old drive in that will likely close due to new Federal regulations.
We lost both the ford and chevy/chrysler dealers in Obama’s takeover of the auto bailout. Our county is either number 1 or 2 in unemployment.
Lots of stuff we have to go to the next town for now.
You are such a doer and planter and harvest so much and then can it. It’s amazing what you can do.
A while ago I came across some information on growing and foraging your own rabbit feed. There was one thread about it at http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/livestock-forums/rabbits/211220-feeding-rabbits-naturally.html and an entire forum section on it at http://rabbittalk.com/natural-feeding-for-rabbits-f11.html
I spent most of my post-surgery recovery time this summer studying those, but with no rabbits of my own I haven’t been able to test it. But, maybe it could help lessen the number of trips to the feed store?