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[KMHunter]

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Silence is golden... Duct tape is silver. Every mother knows this!

That's toooo funny broody.

I have LOTS & LOTS of duct tape!!! Works wonders!

 

[hallerlake]

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That is a strange looking comb!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I can host one at my house this week, or at the North Bend Farmers Market on Thursday. Thay have a band that plays from 6-8pm, good food, and day-old strawberries for making jam.

Speaking of jam, what are the prices for jam making product where everyone lives? Prices here are outrageous, even on sale. I just looked at QFC:

$4.99 1 small box of sugar-less pectin
$2.99 12 wide-mouth lids (flat part only)
$2.19 12 regular mouth lids (flat part only)
$11.99 1 case of 12 x 12 oz "quillted" jars with lids.

These hideous prices are SALE prices. You'd sink a couple bucks into each jar of jam before you even get the fruit in! I went on vacation in Idaho last summer and paid half that with no sale!

I don't need any more jars, but for anyone who lives where these items are cheaper, I'll gladly send you some $ to fill a flat-rate postage box with lids and pectin, and I'll even send back a couple jars of jam.

I just went to my grocery store here in Raymond, and the tight wad produce guy has a cheap quick day-old sale rack, and on it was 4-5 flats of strawberries that had maybe 1 slightly icky on in each plastic tub, 12 tubs per flat, each tub was 99 cents.
I bought a mess, washed, sliced, tossed 2 or 3 berries and froze the rest

Ogress, QFC is usually about 30-50% high on everything compared to Top and Fred Meyers; I know pectin is under $3 at my local Freddies. Puget Consumer Co-op used to have the best prices on canning stuff, but that was before they decided to be Whole Foods for the Northwest.

Do you have a Winco within reasonable distance? They're running lowest on most basic foodstuffs (which pectin and canning supplies are, dern it!) across the board, although I avoid them because the one near me is way too darned BIG.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Somewhere in the middle of potatoes, carrots, turnips and anise root. Or, add sweet potto in there. I like them, but they're not something I can eat a lot of because they're really glycogenic.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I need to talk to my cousin and see if he really wants an Ameraucana rooster.

 

[chickens4gramma]

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Ohhh, you have to go to your in-laws for a month!!! I would die!!! You will need something to look forward to when you get home! lol I like the combination you selected. Great variety!

 

[TifsBroodyBabes]

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I just went to my grocery store here in Raymond, and the tight wad produce guy has a cheap quick day-old sale rack, and on it was 4-5 flats of strawberries that had maybe 1 slightly icky on in each plastic tub, 12 tubs per flat, each tub was 99 cents.
I bought a mess, washed, sliced, tossed 2 or 3 berries and froze the rest

Ogress, QFC is usually about 30-50% high on everything compared to Top and Fred Meyers; I know pectin is under $3 at my local Freddies. Puget Consumer Co-op used to have the best prices on canning stuff, but that was before they decided to be Whole Foods for the Northwest.

Do you have a Winco within reasonable distance? They're running lowest on most basic foodstuffs (which pectin and canning supplies are, dern it!) across the board, although I avoid them because the one near me is way too darned BIG.

The best place I have found to buy canning supplies is at Winco!!!! I think I paid under $7.00 for the quilted jars.

 

[RonB]

Kim

You better go back and add up my eggs again . I think your the one that needs math lessons

Do you really think I would NOT COUNT them up BEFORE I posted

Chickielady

My snow white chicken was suppose to be a Cal. White. But I'm sure she is a Plymouth Rock she lays a brown egg NOT a White one

 

[chickens4gramma]

Well we just talked to our neighbor behind us (who has 12 acres) to make sure he was ok with the chickens. He said, "no worries, I grew up with chickens!" The shed/soon to be coop is just a foot from our property line. Zoning says it must be 40 feet! Silly, when we live out in the country! Our lot is an acre, but the pasture is about 100 feet across, so we would have to move it right into the middle of the pasture over the drain field. That doesn't work. Right now it is in a corner by the barn with apple trees around it for shade. So as long as he doesn't care, we are not moving it!

So hubby is drawing out the plans right now! Woohoo! He is off next week, and wants to get started. Yahoo! He doesn't like chickens much, but the man loves a building project! He might even get to buy some new tools!

 

[KMHunter]

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NEW TOOLS!! That will get a man motivated everytime!