Posted on 06/01/2026 6:10:43 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I swear that dog knows he is posing. LOL
I tried kimchi once did a one gallon glass jar. Dear me I could not stomach it and it all went on the compost. And I grew up on homemade sauerkraut and made my own for 30+ years. Big believer in the fermented. Also still make kefir and homemade pickles. Tried kombucha for a few years when we had no raw milk. It was OK.
Dog cloning??
It’s starting to sound like Beau is starring in his own version of It’s a Wonderful Life.
Still, at 90 it sounds like she had a full life worth celebrating.
She lived until 90 and it sounds like she had a full life worth celebrating.
Sad to hear of her passing. It sounds like you loved her a lot.
Prayers and blessings to all her family and friends.
90 is a good run. My Mom passed away peacefully at 90 y/o, too.
I covered the cabbage with a layer of plastic wrap and put a heavy dinner plate on top to hold it down, then brought the whole thing inside to start its six weeks of fermentation.
Middle of August it will be ready to bottle.
I always used a #6 crock which I still have. Handed down from my Dad. His Dad had made a custom wood circle with a beveled edge and a flat end enough to get your hand under. I still have it. Since I did mine in the garage all winter, I used heavy patio paver squares in plastic bags to weigh the board down. Rarely needed to add any liquid.
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I should amend my reply to you to be a little more specific, esp. since the US has a background “haze” of mercury that floats here from (primarily) Chinese power plants, and often dominates mercury pollution in many otherwise “clean” waterbodies. Mind you, this mercury gets into most everything, but tends to be concentrated in predators, particularly apex predators. That said, most of us don’t eat mammalian or avian apex or near apex predators. Top or near top tier fish, however, are not so lucky (for them) ...
So, back to fish, for typical waterbodies in my region, with runoff primarily from “clean” watershed areas: I avoid consuming the piscivores likely to have accumulated toxins, and eat fish I’ve caught maybe twice a week. My wife (Filipina) makes a lot of recipes she makes with fish, primarily frozen fish, bought from (primarily) the “International” food store’s considerable frozen seafood section. Most times these recipes are heavy on, say, mung beans, and light on the amount of fish, so I, at my age, don’t worry about mercury and such in them. Being an old guy, I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant and I don’t have 50 years to accumulate low level toxins. :-)
Granted, I’d prefer having 50 years to go, if they were no worse than my current years, and then having to be more concerned with toxins, but, God is not likely to grant me that!
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