The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

deb, between the surgery, weight loss, your grandmother, moving, low blood pressure, and forgetting to eat, it's no wonder your depression is having a field day with you. Try to remember to eat, even if you have to set an alarm on your phone. Even though you're not hungry, when you don't eat, it will mess with your mood. Envisioning living in your own home is lovely, but the actual moving process, and getting the home back up to par, are daunting tasks. Don't overwhelm yourself.

Pay attention! Take care Deb...

 

[perchie.girl]

Did I miss something here?? Moving?? View attachment 1936588

I am packing and getting ready to move back home. I havent lived in my own house in twelve years.... As will all empty homes things deteriorate on their own. I am bringing up a new refridgerator and a new freezer.

Plus i am stocking up on materials for home Canning. Hoping to take up a few jars of beans and meat and varous meals in a jar for me. I can only eat seven ounces at a time so the little half pint will be enough for two meals. Cant trust the electricity up there it goes out a couple of times a week especially if the wind is blowing.

So shelf stable food that I can reheat on the pot belly stove is perfect.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well dogs fed Hey Cynthia how you doing ? Son has been at the dentist the last 3 hours he had a molar hurting badly I am afraid he has to soft enamel like his Dad and I

 

[perchie.girl]

after I recovered from my trip to Vons I headed to Food for Less. Huge market and caters to our Hispanic community.... I love going down the aisles and try to figure out what is in the packges... There is also an Asian Aisle.... Condoments and I bougt Pho in a broth box.... Want to see if its any good.

Oh and I went down the meat asile.... And what did I find.... Big trays of PIG FEET... Woohoo....I filled my cart up.... They had beef feet as well as Beef Neck bones.... And Pork Butt Roasts Two to the bag for .77 Cents a pound... I couldnt even lift it out of the cooler. Bwahahah.... Apples for 2.99 a bag... And the two kinds I want to use for the Apple butter... Granny smith for tart and natural pectin and Gala for sweet. My recipe calls for them to be unpeeled... Just chopped up last time I made it the peels kind of disappeared.

Bought a bottle of lemon juice and a bottle of lime juice... and Mesquite seasoning.. I had to ask a fellow customer to read me the lable to see if it had sugar in it... Nope and Nope... He was very nice...

Oh and a big restaurant sized container of whole pepper corns. with all this jarring up i want to do I will need it. I got enough piggie feet to can about six quarts of Pickled piggie feet. Enough to last me till I get sick of em. Oh and they are already split and cleaned

Same with the beef feet. The beef neck bones and some of the marrow bones as well as the ox tails and beef feet should make some great bone broth. Sad to say is if I want to can it The canning process breaks the Gelatin chain... So the option is to freeze it.... for drinking that is. Though I will can up enough for stock.

Oh and they had fresh bay leaves.... And a few mexican squashes that look like they would be good I have to find out how to cook them because they were hard as a rock and about the size of a green tennis ball.

The squash name starts with a C...

I am tired pysically. tiredest I have been in a long time.

got to to do some more research

deb

 

[ShrekDawg]

This year has been crazy!! Mid October and the garden is still producing like crazy!! The cucumbers are finally starting to die off (after producing like crazy all season!!!) but other than that, everything else is still going strong!! Thriving even. Picked some veggies a little early tonight/smaller than I’d like because of the storm coming in (don’t want to lose anything to the winds & rain) but they should still ripen up fine.

 

[Cynthia12]

Well dogs fed Hey Cynthia how you doing ? Son has been at the dentist the last 3 hours he had a molar hurting badly I am afraid he has to soft enamel like his Dad and I

3 hrs? Ugh!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Did not realize he still has his wisdom teeth it has pushed the back molar so hard it broke the molar so say he will have to have the molar pulled put him on a med as infection has set in

 

[ShrekDawg]

Did not realize he still has his wisdom teeth it has pushed the back molar so hard it broke the molar so say he will have to have the molar pulled put him on a med as infection has set in

Oh no! That’s no good.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Going to a dog show AND a horse show this weekend!

Was originally just going to go to the dog show but then I discovered there is also a horse show the same weekend, same location (huge fairgrounds lol) and... well... that was that.

Also have a concert on Friday but it’s at a local place so close by. So we’ll go to the concert Friday then go to the dog show (and horse show!) Saturday.

 

[NotAFarm]

Penny, I had a wisdom tooth that damaged a molar and have a crown on the molar. The wisdom tooth was removed.
I'm glad he got it taken care off.

@perchie.girl
I am sooo happy to hear you are finally getting back to your house.
Slow and steady progress will keep you healthy. Don't try to do too much too quickly.
We are going to need pictures!!