The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

catching up... five pages wow...

Bugs here live year round... BuT DANG NOTHING in the volume you guys get...

deb

 

[CapricornFarm]

@Latestarter with the romas getting the seeds out is pretty fast. They all sit in an easy pop out/scoop out pocket.

The beef steaks are way more work.

I don't can them, i just eat them on sandwiches. They taste amazing!

 

[drumstick diva]

See my smile it's ice cream shopping day and I have a $ 1.00 off cpn. on 2

 

[ronott1]

See my smile it's ice cream shopping day and I have a $ 1.00 off cpn. on 2

Ice cream!
I hope that you can get the flavors you want

 

[Beer can]

I don't eat raw tomatoes and the primary reason is because of the seeds. I love real tomato sauce, and when there was more than just me, I grew tomato plants and made sauce that I would freeze. Problem was, like you, I'd scald the tomatoes to peel them then have to squeeze out all the seeds (or as many as I could) before putting them in the pot for sauce. Could you post a pic of this squeezo thing? Maybe provide an actual name? If it works as you described on raw tomatoes, I absolutely need to find one!

It's a food strainer, can be used for applesauce, and berries also. Works awesome, little effort, turns very easy not like a hand meat grinder.
Mine is a Squeezo. There is cheaper one's though. I'm missing the shoot, and the seal and the other two strainers, MIL has to look for them, but it still worked fine. It has a spring in it that when the squasher gets built up with seeds and pulp at the end it pushes in against the spring and just let's the pulp out, pulp is pretty dry also.
I motorized mine with a 7yr old

 

[Beer can]

First time I've ever used one @Latestarter , I've always done tomatoes just scalded and peeled, left seeds in. Wish I got one of these things yrs ago.

 

[microchick]

Hi everyone!

Fall business continues on this end. Still doing coop work, separating birds to even out pens, blah blah blah. Harvesting trees yet for firewood. Doing fall cleaning in the house......grumble grumble grumble. Finally got the new roof on the portable coop. YAY! It rained last night so just under the wire on that one as I finished capping in the ends yesterday afternoon.

Apples are coming on strong. DH and I have been peeling, slicing, freezing and dehydrating for two weeks now. The chickens are now turning their noses up at the piles of peelings, cores and rejects we are tossing at them every day. Even they are getting tired of them. Yesterday, DH suggested that maybe it was time to get a cider press. Don't know whether to laugh or cry at that suggestion. I would just as soon give the extras to our neighbor and their 12 kids (non Amish. I think they just love haing kids).

Chickens are doing well....knock on wood. No unusual deaths in two months. I feel like I need a rabbit's foot, four leaf clover, anything, at this point in time.

I finally ceased my war with my Insurance company. I just grew tired of it, even after they admitted---finally-- that they were in the wrong but refused to do anything to right the problem. You can't fight them and win. I could probably get a lawyer and drag them to court on misrepresentation of policy benefits (which they finally admitted they were doing) but by this time next year I am on Medicare and can tell them to take a flying leap. Yes, I still hate insurance companies for the most part. Nope, my opinion of them isn't going to change. If any of you work in the insurance industry, you are not at fault and sorry for stepping on toes but entitled to my opinion I am.

As for Bantams vs Standard roosters, yep. My little boys are on the standards like ugly on an ape at the smallest transgression (breathing, stepping too close to a hen, the waterer or the feeder, looking at them, looking at a hen, looking at me, etc) I finally had to separate the four standard sized boys from the bantams because the bantams were beating the dirt out of them on a continuous basis and the standards have 2 inch long spurs that they choose not to use. My husband called it death by a thousand Munchkins. Bantams mirror the old saying of diamonds and dynamite coming in small packages.

Y'all have a nice Sunday.

 

[pennyJo1960]

good lord cockerel stew for dinner here beside medicare ain't all that have to have supplemental with it

 

[CapricornFarm]

It's a food strainer, can be used for applesauce, and berries also. Works awesome, little effort, turns very easy not like a hand meat grinder.
Mine is a Squeezo. There is cheaper one's though. I'm missing the shoot, and the seal and the other two strainers, MIL has to look for them, but it still worked fine. It has a spring in it that when the squasher gets built up with seeds and pulp at the end it pushes in against the spring and just let's the pulp out, pulp is pretty dry also.
I motorized mine with a 7yr old
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Oh man, that sucker is expensive! Have to look for one at Goodwill. Sadly the stores around here don't have much to sell.

 

[microchick]

Usually the ones I find at the Salvation Army resale shop and Good will or the Crossing are in bits and pieces. I seriously want a meat grinder.