Here's our formerly-feral kitty - we've been just calling her "kitty" but she had to have a real name to make her vet appointment. So her official name is now Pumpkin. Not too original, but hey, she's orange, and I had to come up with something on the spur of the moment.
She was scared of Lily the dog at first, but she's a smarty and figured out pretty quickly that Lily, an elderly Golden Retriever who loves absolutely everybody, would be her friend. We call them the "golden girls."
For those of you getting low on freezer space you could freeze in a good quality freezer bag and freeze it flat so it can fit into small space
What a great idea, I'm going to do that!
I think we need more Penny pics!!
Definitely!
To see her doggie grin at us with an open soft expression in her eyes is such a joy
She's so cute, smiling there on her "forbidden" couch! I can't tell from the picture - do her ears flop backwards, or did some jerk in her past do the "gotta cut off the pitbulls' ears" thing? I hate that - but Penny is a cutie either way.
Dh said to tell ya'll that the pallet buster is an absolute win. However you've got to pay attention to the wood so you don't split the boards
Yay! I ordered one a while ago, but just put it in the shed and haven't made any time to use it yet. I hope this winter when the garden's asleep I can use to to make the rest of the raised beds I need. Good to know it's a worthwhile purchase.
Starting to think about doing Christmas jams...anyone have a favorite jam they'd like to suggest
I made grape jam last year to give to people, just because I couldn't resist buying a case of those tiny mini canning jars that are like one cup but use regular narrow-mouth lids.
only the bindweed is a problem and it has large white trumpet flowers or the smaller variety with small pale pink or white flowers. It also has horrible roots that go everywhere and break off when you try to pull it.
Yes! Yuck. and it grows these alien-looking, huge pods that seem like some "Pod People" are going to hatch out of them.
Or the crying three hours later when you forget and rub your eye...
A friend of mine who's a chef told me a story...he and his wife harvested their hot peppers, chopped them up and made salsa, put it in the canner - then while waiting for it to process, they started, um, getting quite romantic. Just as the timer went off, excruciating burning pain "down there" set in for both of them - and the salsa ended up over-processed and ruined.
I think I might be getting the hang of these "Harvest guard" reusable rings and lids. The first load was a big fail, I re-read the directions and reprocessed, then only two jars didn't seal. But my next two canner loads have all sealed. Sauerkraut, dill pickles, and sweet relish. I'm going to keep the rings on though, and not try to store them without rings. All pickled or fermented recipes, but hopefully I'm learning enough to do tomato sauce in a week or so when the sauce tomatoes are ready.
I'm way behind on processing pesto, lemon cukes are still producing like crazy so another load of cuke soup is in order, and it's probably past time to cover the baby fall cabbages. And who knows what monster zucchinis are lurking in the squash jungle!
Give me hot pepper flavor without the heat any day. Like the taste, not the kick, or the sweating, or crying. Or the crying three hours later when you forget and rub your eye...
That's all I did, then I closed the page. Ha!
