Michigan

[Opa]

Good morning all. Still quite overcast here today and I have tons I have to try to do. Not real sure how my back is going to fare but I need to build an 8' wide mantel for a customer. Hope wants me to help her can tomatoes, I need to finish the chicken coop that I'm taking to Missouri in 2 weeks, and there must be at least 2 bushel of windfall apples I need to pick up and press for apple cider.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Oh my Gosh Sam!! Well Hopefully i wont see grandkids for another 15 to 20 years LOL

I am ready for grandkids. My oldest son is not ready to have kids but his wife is.
Opa, sounds like you will be busy. I don't have many tomatoes but am thinking about buying a bunch to can.
Wow, you make your own cider too? DH and I love cider.

 

[Opa]

I started pressing my own cider several years ago rather than feeding all the excess apples to the deer. Two years ago I press over 100 gallons. David usually takes 10 gallons for making wine and brandy and I freeze quite alot. It is quite enjoyable to taste the difference in the cider caused by the different apple varieties I use. The cider that I make in October is much sweeter than the cider pressed now. I have one tree that is an old variety of yellow delicious and it makes a wonderful cider.

 

[Keleka]

Good Morning Everyone.

Thanks for the welcome back Hillbillyhen.

MJ - I know the next couple weekends are booked for us. Maybe a weeknight would work or ???? Glad to hear you're feeling better. Kids are a huge help sometimes.

Here are a few pictures of the free shed I got. Got to get it done so I can move the birds in before winter. It is 12x12 and couldn't figure out how to get it home in one piece, so I sawed it in half. One half is currently on the ground the other half is on the trailer. Looks like my weekend will consist on getting it on the ground and starting to piece it back together. Progress may be slow, but I plan to re-shingle it and paint, etc.

 

[wyliefarms]

Good Morning!

Hey Opa- if you end up with extra apples, let me know! We pressed cider last year for the first time, got 24 gallons. Paid the folks who gave us apples with cider. Worked out well. One tree we used last year, the apples are dieing.

I picked a 5 gallon pail of tomotoes last night. the mostiquitos were visious!!!! Everyone has bites

Off to get to work....today is the last day of our meat chickens, so happy!

Sarah

 

[blueberrylu]

good morning all.

Good luck with the cider Opa

Derek----what a blessing to get that shed. It looks like it will be a fab chicken coop, or a play house for you little ones. (Hmmm.......maybe you'll have to look for another free shed

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Princess Oscar is all good now----no more bloody stools that I can see. I think the bath she got this weekend helped------after DD bathed her to get the "yuck" off of her back feathers, we brought her in the house and blow dried her. Never, in all my life, would I have ever thought I would be blow drying a chicken in my house. PO seemed to like it, hardly flapped at all, even perched on my knee and took a little nap when we were done.

 

[LauraSBale]

Mommi sorry to hear about your baby turkey

B/B/S Ameraucanas what does the B/B/S stand for?

Rhandi, that I do understand that you will be very happy when your daughter can drive,

PM'd ya

 

[Keleka]

Thanks Opa and 7961!

Blueberrylu - That is funny you should mention the playhouse thing. I had been looking for a coop for a while, but the funds were the problem. A co-worker of mine gave me this playhouse and I had every intent of it being my new coop. Well, once I pulled it onto the driveway, the wife and kids all came out to see it, and immediatly said "you got us a new playhouse!!" How do I tell the kids no? It was built as a playhouse anyway. So, I started to re-do this one when I found the new one.

So I can say I have been very blessed lately!!

 

[briana1975]

Keleka that playhouse is really cute. It would of made a great coop but it does look like the kids really like it.
Lovemychicklets we take ours off the cob and freeze it. Takes up a lot less space in the freezer. My SIL freezes hers on the cob. I am not sure how. I would think blanch[sp] and drain and bag and freeze?

 

[wyliefarms]

Lovemychicklets:

Husk the corn and get a pot of boling water going. Put several ears of corn in the boiling water for 3 mintues. Take out and immediately put in cold water in the sink. Let cool for a few minutes. Then cut the corn off the cob and put into bags and freeze.
I use a cake pan to cut the corn into and then a measuring scoop to get into the bag.

You can leave on the cob, it has a different taste to me though. And leaving it on the cobs takes more space in the freezer.

Enjoy!

Sarah