The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[007Sean]

hoping you feel better soon

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[sharron]

We're back from the vet with Opie. Turns out he somehow injured his back, right upper leg and it's swollen plus he's running a fever.

The vet gave him 2 injections and I have some pills to give him over the next 3 days.

Hope that gives me back my sweet boy!

lots of luck giving him the pills, bella has to take two antibiotics a day along with 4 allergy pills, i can get the allergy pills down her without to much trouble, i just wrap them in pepperoni but the antibiotics are lots bigger and she knows their there and spits them out and no, peanut butter doesn't work with her

 

[sharron]

Oh Publix grocery stores were one of the best things about living in Florida! Loved their stores.

well, they seem to have everything, but they ain't cheap and we have winn-dixie and piggy wiggly here that have nice meats so usually buy meat at one of those, walmarts for canned goods and other things

 

[N F C]

lots of luck giving him the pills, bella has to take two antibiotics a day along with 4 allergy pills, i can get the allergy pills down her without to much trouble, i just wrap them in pepperoni but the antibiotics are lots bigger and she knows their there and spits them out and no, peanut butter doesn't work with her

The vet showed us how to hold him to get his mouth open and she said to put a bit of butter on the pill to slip it down easier.

Guess we'll find out tomorrow!

 

[rjohns39]

i would image that rj canned it, would need shelf space, not freezer space.
when we were young and raising ds i would can a couple hundred tomato's, juice, whole tomatoes, stewed tomatoes and tomato soup. but that was then, don't need anywhere near that much for just the two of us. i left the freezer for vegetables and meats, altho i sometimes canned beef too

Yup. There are six of us here, so we go through lots. When I'm short on freezer space I'll can meats that are the "can't walk away from deal." But I have an outdoor two burner stove so I can can 28 quarts at a time.

When I lived in VA I had a network of farmers that would call me when they had "ugly vegetables," Things they couldn't sell to the CSA. I would let the CSA know their price and that I wanted to pick it up there and they'd tell me what the final price would be. I had no problem paying them to hold the stuff for me that was picked that morning vine ripe. They knew I liked to pickup Friday evening or early Saturday morning, so the farms would make sure to deliver it Friday morning.

Then I'd spend the weekend canning. Back then we were providing for three families. Both kids and their spouses referred to my basement as "Grampie's grocery." I need to build those relationships here, but it's more difficult as there's no "central" focus like the CSA I had in VA.

I really wish I had a proper food cellar, but until I learn to operate heavy equipment that's not going to happen. I also need to push the mountain back about 15 feet on the logging road so I can put in outdoor walk in fridge and freezer. I'd love to have a space that's constantly 50* year around. There's so much I could do with that... Cheese, chacuterie, etc. It may be a crazy obsession, but I like knowing where my food came from and how it was raised.

 

[sharron]

Yup. There are six of us here, so we go through lots. When I'm short on freezer space I'll can meats that are the "can't walk away from deal." But I have an outdoor two burner stove so I can can 28 quarts at a time.

When I lived in VA I had a network of farmers that would call me when they had "ugly vegetables," Things they couldn't sell to the CSA. I would let the CSA know their price and that I wanted to pick it up there and they'd tell me what the final price would be. I had no problem paying them to hold the stuff for me that was picked that morning vine ripe. They knew I liked to pickup Friday evening or early Saturday morning, so the farms would make sure to deliver it Friday morning.

Then I'd spend the weekend canning. Back then we were providing for three families. Both kids and their spouses referred to my basement as "Grampie's grocery." I need to build those relationships here, but it's more difficult as there's no "central" focus like the CSA I had in VA.

I really wish I had a proper food cellar, but until I learn to operate heavy equipment that's not going to happen. I also need to push the mountain back about 15 feet on the logging road so I can put in outdoor walk in fridge and freezer. I'd love to have a space that's constantly 50* year around. There's so much I could do with that... Cheese, chacuterie, etc. It may be a crazy obsession, but I like knowing where my food came from and how it was raised.[/QUOTE


husband and i bought a big chest freezer, then went to the auction and bought a calf and raised it up, had a butcher, j.c. that butchered, cut and wrapped, then froze, man i miss that man, i never had a piece of meat freezer burn and sometimes i would find a two year old piece of meat, good as the day he froze it, and he never upset when he killed so meat was always fork tender . mil had a , what she called, a fruit pantry, where she put her canned veggies, and winter veggies and fruit, we always went up the mt to a potato farmer every fall and bought a couple of hundred pounds of potato's, white and red and a couple of bushels of apples, stayed nice all winter, lord would love to do that again, i miss my mil

 

[Blooie]

We're back from the vet with Opie. Turns out he somehow injured his back, right upper leg and it's swollen plus he's running a fever.

The vet gave him 2 injections and I have some pills to give him over the next 3 days.

Hope that gives me back my sweet boy!

I hope so too! Poor baby!

Yup. There are six of us here, so we go through lots. When I'm short on freezer space I'll can meats that are the "can't walk away from deal." But I have an outdoor two burner stove so I can can 28 quarts at a time.

When I lived in VA I had a network of farmers that would call me when they had "ugly vegetables," Things they couldn't sell to the CSA. I would let the CSA know their price and that I wanted to pick it up there and they'd tell me what the final price would be. I had no problem paying them to hold the stuff for me that was picked that morning vine ripe. They knew I liked to pickup Friday evening or early Saturday morning, so the farms would make sure to deliver it Friday morning.

Then I'd spend the weekend canning. Back then we were providing for three families. Both kids and their spouses referred to my basement as "Grampie's grocery." I need to build those relationships here, but it's more difficult as there's no "central" focus like the CSA I had in VA.

I really wish I had a proper food cellar, but until I learn to operate heavy equipment that's not going to happen. I also need to push the mountain back about 15 feet on the logging road so I can put in outdoor walk in fridge and freezer. I'd love to have a space that's constantly 50* year around. There's so much I could do with that... Cheese, chacuterie, etc. It may be a crazy obsession, but I like knowing where my food came from and how it was raised.

<sigh>. You make me ashamed of myself.

 

[N F C]

I hope so too! Poor baby!



<sigh>. You make me ashamed of myself.

I'm going to 'out myself' and say I'm not ashamed but I am lazy!

 

[Bamabexchicks]

we went shopping this morning, ollies first, bought a few things, then had lunch out, then stopped at public's (grocery) on the way home. while in the meat section noticed they had butchers bone broth, a pint for 6.49

$6.49 per pint seems really spendy for my blood! We have Ollie's and Publix here too. Their meat is good but everything else is kinda high. Gotta get my Community dark roast coffee at Wallyworld cause we get 2# at a time.

 

[007Sean]

well, they seem to have everything, but they ain't cheap and we have winn-dixie and piggy wiggly here that have nice meats so usually buy meat at one of those, walmarts for canned goods and other things

Had a friend that was a butcher at Winn-Dixie, they had the best meat of any other chain store.