Sorry, have been busy and haven't been able to pop in as often as I'd like.
Didn't do anything special with the beef stock. Used the basic Ball Blue Book recipe as a guide, http://www.freshpreserving.com/recipes/beef-stock. Added a bit of vinegar (maybe a couple tablespoons) to the pot and...
Got a third of a beef from a steer that the parents raised. Barely had room in the freezers.
Canned up a couple of batches of beef stock this past weekend. Use maybe a quarter of the soup bones that we got.
(9) Quart jars
(10) Pint jars
(1) Pint jar that didn't seal. Put that one in the fridge...
I never bite my tongue on that one. I'll flat out tell them not to throw the jars away. I even add some incentive by saying if you bring the jars back I'll put more goodies in it.
Same thing with eggs and cartons. If family wants free eggs, they have to return cartons.
True, most of us who are lucky enough to live outside city limits would prefer you don't relocate pests or pets to our neck of the woods. :D But if you trap it and you know someone outside city limits, ask them if you can come over put down the opossum. Or if you have a barrel or something you...
Sorry for the delay in responding. Was out of town all last week with little to no mobile service. We (Dad, my son, and myself) were in Wyoming hunting. Son got his first mule deer; a buck. Nice 3x3 plus a little stubby brow tine on one side. :D
Ours didn't bubble or ferment any further. I used...
Gamecams not surveillance cameras. Gamecams are motion activated and then snap a pic or two then wait for more motion. And gamecams can be had very reasonably.
It happens. A number of years back while on our annual trip to Wyoming to hunt we had about half a dozen does, their fawns, and a couple of bucks (mule deer) that were in the yard behind the house every morning. They were coming in at night and eating the willow leaves that were falling. If I...