June 30, 2011

canning time

chunky apple/pear sauce
(pears are not from my tree)
sugar and additional pectin free
cinnamon flavored

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well under 18 combined apples/pears yielded 9 pints
canned 8 pints and left one open to eat now

June 29, 2011

the crazy cycle

I saw this as a post on Rural Revolution today and had to pass it on.

This comic was printed in the Chicago Tribune in 1934 and here we are almost a century later taking that same crazy ride. SAD.

Chicago Tribune 1934 Cartoon


Make sure you click on over to Rural Revolution as Patrice has terrific blog posts on becoming self sufficiant, beautiful pics of her farm that I covet, writes for WND, and just had her first book published which I hope to get for an up coming birthday hint hint Hubby

a weekend away

in San Antonio
just the two of us
:-)

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