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We do a lot of canning here.  And the thought has always followed that in an emergency situation, canning things would be impossible without...

When I'm canning I usually have a good chuckle over a fond memory of a friend of ours who, after receiving some homemade jam from us sai...

Okay, I'm missing summer.  We've had a good bout of snow lately and while the sledding has been fun, warm would be nice.  So in hono...

You all know I'm cheap.  I do not like spending money and rarely buy anything new.  In the wake of the free canning jar episode, I thoug...

My UPS guy called yesterday morning and let me know that a friend of his was moving and had some canning jars they didn't want to take ...

I was going to write something fantabulous about Christmas or winter or something, but to be honest, my brain's about done, so I'm p...

Today we have another flashback to summer post.  Canning tomatoes.  I was going to do salsa, but the first steps of salsa are the same as ca...

Well, I don't know about you, but canning season was crazy around here. Consequently, I did a lot of canning/freezing/drying and mostly...

Our poor chickens need a house. They had a house that we borrowed from a neighbor, but it was really too small and had no nest boxes and n...

Pickled Hot Peppers. Sorry, it doesn't even sound appetizing to me, but sweet husband likes them on his sandwiches and we had an abundan...

I'll be leaving on Saturday for 9 days of mountain man style camping, so like a responsible blogger, I'm breaking up something that ...