What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Spent 4 days in the hospital for AFIB . Home now .

 

[Sueby]

Just got back from town.
diesel is 4.80
non eth reg is 420
non eth premium 430
eth reg is 420

That was a big jump! We don't have the choice of eth or not. Tis what it is here in CT!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Spent 4 days in the hospital for AFIB . Home now .

Hope you are doing well. Very scary.

 

[Sueby]

Spent 4 days in the hospital for AFIB . Home now .

My sister goes into AFIB all the time. She finally found a doc that gave her a pill to stop it so she didn't have to go to the hospital. I hope you get it straightened out.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

The heating oil I got 2 weeks ago at $3.69 would cost $5.09 today. WAH. Glad I won’t need anymore until next December. PS: just took the dog out. We have 4 inches of snow on the ground now and still coming down. More nitrogen for the garden.

 

[WthrLady]

That was a big jump! We don't have the choice of eth or not. Tis what it is here in CT!

We don't have the insane number of regulations that other places do, plus we don't use ethanol in our small engines/boats out here.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I had a glass top stove that could handle hot water bath canning. I wasn’t adventurous enough to try pressure canning on it. Replaced that stove with a less fancy coil burner type stove. Gas stoves are preferable and there are gas lines on the street but running it to the house and then the cost of a new stove was way more money than I wanted to spend on it. My new electric stove handles my large presto canner with no problem. Best of luck with the electric canner @Sueby.

I have done water bath canning many times on my glass stove top. Never had a problem with it. But I'm terrified of ruining the stove with the pressure canner. The turkey deep fryer has been a great buy.... Both for deep fried turkey and chicken but also for easy feather plucking. But it has to be constantly babysat to make sure the flame doesn't go out. Still worth it though.

 

[Sally PB]

My MIL was so ga-ga in love with her glass topped stove because it was so easy to keep clean. Until it cracked. And not from canning.

I gotta say, I love-love-love my Instant Pot for cooking. I know it's not for pressure canning. I have a pressure canner, but because it's aluminum, I would never cook in it.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I had a gut feeling that things were going to go sideways in a bad way. I stockpiled some gasoline when it was $2/gallon. Bought fuel stabilizer to make it last longer. I'm loathe to use it and have to restock at $4/gallon.

 

[Emma-Daisy]

Can you can everything in a water bath canner or pressure canner or is each one used for different things? Never canned before but would like to learn, it looks really complicated/ no idea what to buy.