The Old Folks Home

[getaclue]

First doc who said that to me.
I swear their scale weighs heavy compared to ours and the one at the PCP's office. They claim no but I've never seen an electronic hospital scale that was worth a darn.

My mother used to set her bathroom scale 5 pounds heavier, so it would line up with what the one in the doctor's office said.

 

[microchick]

I usually just go by how my clothes are fitting. I seldom get on the scales. Now I just weigh myself about once a month. Before a doctor's appointment. I had an OB doc once tell me that they considered 9 pounds to be clothes, food, and whatever the patient had to drink. To me, 5 pounds is more reasonable, although I've had other doctors tell me that they do 3-5 pounds less than what the scale is telling them.

DH and I always have a debate about this. I take my jacket/coat and shoes off when I'm weighed. he doesn't saying that his true weight is what he is wearing. I usually weigh in the morning, after I shower, in the all together. When he said about weighing with all his clothes on I asked him if that is how he was born? Fully clothed with shoes on because that first all vital weight in the new born nursery is with the baby buck tailed nekked.

I think I made a point....I think, although a doctor that I also worked with laughed when he saw me emptying out my pockets to be weighed once and said 'you women would strip naked to be weighed if I let you' to which I replied 'hey, I've had doctors walk in on me in our nurse's locker when we were changing more than once. I'm not too shy to do just that!'

He left real fast.

 

[perchie.girl]

Woo Hoo Got my Apple butter started. Tomorrow I wont be able to lift my arms strained my shoulders sitting in a Dining room chair and cutting and coring Fifteen pounds of apples I so need a handicapped kitchen... Food 4 Less had five pound bags for 3 bucks... Gala and Granny smith... Boy oh boy those Galas have the perfect non mushy sweet texture... And I forgot how sour Granny Smiths were. No

I dont peel just pull the stem off and dig out the flower end Cut those ends off in about one inch slices NO core... Then cut the rest off the core in little wedges So 90 percent of the apple is used. When Its time I will use the immersion blender to make the peels disappear. They have natural pectin.

I am covered in Apple pie spice and brown sugar.... I dusted my face royally.... But so happy to do this... I either need low counters in my house or regular counters with a rolling Bar stool Get me up elbow height for cooking.

Next is about fifteen pounds of onions of ONION Jam... Woo Hoo. Both can be water bath canned... Not too ready for the pressure canning stuff. But I have the freezer full Of bones.... Kind of morbid right... enough chicken parts to do chicken stock, enough Beef parts to do beef stock, and Enough Salmon parts to do fish stock.

I have three chuck roasts for doing Full on Canning meat session. A whole brisket for Corning for Corned beef. Thats about 25 or 30 pounds un trimmed. I flipped it over in the store and there wasnt much fat hidden on the under side. Just enough fat to make it yummy.

All meat will go into quart jars... the Onion Jam and the Apple butter will go in four ounce jam jars. They are going to be given or sent as gifts.

Broth will go into quart jars as well. to be used for soups or to aid in pressure canning meats. No more boxed broth for me... I will freeze some of the bone broth, or put it in a tupper ware container for my breakfast. pressure canning kills the geletin...

ONe step closer to home.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

Nothing wrong with that Geta. Dr.scales always make people weigh more! At home everything comes off.

 

[microchick]

Perchie, would you please bottle up some of that energy and send it to me?

 

[perchie.girl]

Perchie, would you please bottle up some of that energy and send it to me?

LOL.... Its a rare thing for me these days but it sure feels good.

I boat motored the sauce last night and tasted. got too much seasoning in it. I hope it mellows a bit... The only other solution I can think of is putting in Regular apple sauce and cooking it in.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

By the way the book I wrote on doing Apple butter is my usual way when i am experiencing something with a bit of humor and or I am excited about something. Writing is my way of expression...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh and I took Alieve and a couple of tylenol last night... Very little pain this morning.. I just took another dose. And am heading off to get the apple butter re started.

When I am done I hope to be able to jar it all up... I have two cases of four ounce jars. Now I have to go read up on double stacking jars in a water bath.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

Glad you are being peppy - wish I was. me

 

[microchick]

I hear you DD. I did 4 loads of laundry today and dug up my gladiola bulbs. Felt like I'd ran a mile. Clunked on the sofa for an hour and a half, got up, took two of the pups for a run in the field. It's so funny to watch them chasing butterflies that have survived the freeze. About ready to go out and bed the chooks down for the night. I got half of them treated with Ivermax this morning also. Nothing more fun than chasing down and tackling bantams. Told DH I'd leave the Fayoumi's for when I was rested up. I had the feeling it was going to take both of us to do them.

I'm ready for a good night's sleep.