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Post by tabitha on Mar 4, 2020 19:20:05 GMT
What I did today? Well, it is only noon.
cleaned hen bit and dead nettle out of a row of garlic. I am not counting things like leading the sheep to paddock #4, fun project. Cleaned out two beds in the greenhouse, put aside chickweed for human consumption. Planted leeks and onions, filled I don't know how many pots so I can start peppers etc. after dinner. You know how they like to take their sweet time to come up. Four loads of wash hanging out on the line. and while veggie soup was simmering stood in the bed of the pickup to prune at least one side of an appletree. so much easier than climbing around on a ladder. And fixed the downspout to catch water in a stock tank off the goatshed. It's for watering the greenhouse.
I am thinking of making another batch of 'bread'. It goes fast.
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Post by Tim Horton on Mar 4, 2020 20:35:53 GMT
Monday and yesterday included trips to town for appointments, and other errands.. Today is sleep in a little, and commit a kitchen domestic day. Load or two of wash. Annoy the dog, just because that is what he does.. Process books for shelves.
I am going to bring up the last bucket of homegrown potatoes from the cold room and cook something.. A dish that will last a couple days, and another for the freezer to enjoy later.. Forecast is sunny but cold, with light snow late next week..
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Post by woody on Mar 4, 2020 21:47:00 GMT
My normal days, aren’t around as of late. Since my sister has been in the hospital & now rehab. I normally start my day around 6:30 am and am sticking to it although, boy could I sleep in. Had one cup of coffee and was out for my walk/run. I incorporate walking & running...called a WOG, a slower pace than a run. In the past I was a marathon runner, multiple races, 6K, half marathons etc. no more racing for me, but I’ve been running since 1978 & my day isn’t complete unless I get my time in. So wogged 5 miles. Usually I’d walk & wog, but needed to do a lot before visiting my sister...so went faster today.
Got home, had another cup of coffee, oatmeal with blueberries, jumped in the shower, got prettied up😉went to pick up scripts & groceries. Went to my daughters resting place & decorated her area with artificial flowers for now, then to my mother & fathers spot & decorated there. Got home unloaded groceries, made lunch & then off to visit my sister for a couple of hours, got home at 4:00. Prepared dinner, to warm up when time to eat, so I can take a short nap, very soon.😴
A nurse told me today that our hospital just got their own testing kits for the corona virus. Still pushing buttons with elbows, opening doors with paper towel and holding my breath on the elevator rides.
It’s been a whirl wind since my sister had the stroke..she’s scheduled to go home on the 10 th. She’s walking much better, but still no arm action. She’ll be getting rehab at home & a nurse. Not sure how many days or hours. This is exhausting, but I wouldn’t be anywhere else, but to help cheer up my beloved sister.
Thanks for your prayers all, please keep them up, for patty🙏
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Post by tabitha on Mar 5, 2020 15:28:28 GMT
will do Woody.
My Dad walked miles and miles every day way into his eighties. He walked, not so much for walking as such, but to be out in the forest and on the mountain and I guess he ad the urge to move.
!5 years ago, before I moved here, I went on the last hike with him and his buddy, same vintage. A mountain we loved and could see from the kitchen window,that had some steep areas and on the very top a big cross, heaven knows how they got it up there, and a grand view. I had a heck of a time keeping up with the two 82 year old codgers. Being Germany where trails are crawling with hikers, we passed a group from Frankonia and I overheard the women say, lets not go to the very top, that looks awfully steep. I should have kept my mouth shut, but I said, what? my Dad is probably up there already (i,was dragging behind) so they went up. Here I was, looking out over my beloved mountains, with my Dad, saying good bye to blue ridges in the distance, with my heart feeling like crying, and here were these people, never shutting up, talking stupid stuff they had seen on Television. It is illegal to throw them over the cliff...
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Post by Dodges Mammaw on Mar 6, 2020 2:54:14 GMT
I volunteered at the local (food bank) mission today. I took my own can of Lysol spray and jug of wipes. I wiped down office and sprayed all surfaces. We served 65 families. They received about 50 to 70 lbs of food and produce each. When the day is over we can get any leftover produce. I got a few tangerines, large box of strawberries, 2 nectarines, and 3 small cucumbers. We also have access to all dented cans. We cannot give those out.
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Post by DEKE on Mar 6, 2020 5:31:06 GMT
We also have access to all dented cans. because dented food is dangerous? Because it is too dangerous to give to the poor and homeless but safe enough for the volunteers?
I'm going to guess that the real reason is some bureaucrat made a regulation or a weak-kneed lawyer is afraid of getting sued.
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Post by Dodges Mammaw on Mar 6, 2020 15:06:26 GMT
I think you hit the nail on the head. I think it is silly. If you are hungry I can't see where a dent would bother you.
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Post by joebill on Mar 6, 2020 16:36:09 GMT
I might be able to shed a bit of light on the dented cans. Not many people thought much about them until sometime in the 50's, when people were sort of mixing formula for babies using stuff like Pet canned milk. The cans back then were sealed with a small dot of solder on the end (Yeah, prob'ly LEAD solder GASP!) and if it was not applied at exactly the right temperature to a completely clean surface, the bond might not be perfect, and so if the can had a dent in it, air might be admitted to the can and cause spoilage....not a huge deal to an adult, but everybody has always looked out for the babies, as well they should.
Later, when I was in school in Chicago, there was a day old bread and dented can grociery store on State Street not far from my lodgings, and they did a land-office business in that bad neighborhood, and it increased when they were able to put up the sign that said they could accept food stamps. They had one huge bin of dented cans with no labels, like a surprise in a can, and I always suspected they took the stuff that did not sell well and tore off the labels and chunked the cans in that cheap bin to close them out, but later I was advised that stores that received dented cans in shipments could tear off the labels, send them in, get credit issued to their accounts since they were sent deflective merchandise. Of course, that left them with the actual food in cans on hand to dispose of, and they could give it to the food bank or sell it to the dented can store at a whale of a discount.
In all of my years, I have never heard of a dented can of food spoiling, UNLESS the can was also LEAKING!...which should be easy enough to determine, but the public aversion to dented cans seems to have begun with store owners refusing to sell dented cans of canned milk to families with babies, although they were willing enough to sit them back on the shelf and sell them to people who were just dosing their coffee or tea with it...…
One more small tidbit about "tin" cans. Historic sights can often be dated by the type of them left laying about in piles in dry places like this where they do not rust to dust inside of a decade, and the old mining town of Steins, near Lordsburg nm has cans dating all of the way from the war between the states up to last week. Of course the cans themselves are not dated, just the way they were made tells the tale.....Joe
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Post by daw on Mar 6, 2020 16:36:30 GMT
The only dent that will hurt is if it is a very sharp dent that can leach into acid food. You rarely see those. I buy dented cans for the mark downs....
I quilt until my back aches then do other things. I love being outdoors and gas heat is very hard on my compromised lungs. So I decided to use my metal detector. We have had so much rain things are coming up by themselves! A 1/4 in x16 in piece of steel with a curved hook was sticking out the ground where I mow! So searched that area found copper wire etc. then I found a solid copper spoon. I think the mark o the spoon maybe HM . Someone twisted the handle tight then looped the end over making it about 4 inches instead of 6 or 7 inches. I read solid copper are rare but you can read anything😒.
Then I made bread.... it was good..I put oatmeal in it... This morning I am preparing a place to plant peas , and salads. So then I made bread
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Post by joebill on Mar 6, 2020 21:29:32 GMT
Daw, that is prob'ly a "baby spoon" you found. Our family used to make them for new babies when times were hard and buying expensive baby shower gifts not in the budget.
The object was (and it worked very well) that when Baby was able to grasp and use a spoon, he/she had a double handle to hang onto plus the end of the loop, PLUS when it got plopped back into the bowl of oatmeal or whatever, the hook on the handle would catch on the rim of the bowl, preventing it from sliding down into the mushy stuff and messing up the handle....also, the shortened handle made it easier for the hand-to-mouth co-ordination.
You could go through a bin of mis matched flatware in the junk store and often find some silver plate with a great design, polish it up nice and shiny, do the bend, sometimes hot under a torch or sometimes cold, repolish, and it became the poor man's version of the rich man's silver spoon as in "born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
I have seen both copper and brass flatware with the silver coating eaten off that looks like it was never plated, but also solid copper flatware existed where the copper was heated and cooled slowly to harden it. Copper hardens the opposite of steel, which gets heated and cooled quickly to harden.
Betcha a nickel you have a solid copper baby spoon there. Some people saved theirs for their kids or grandkids, but somebody left theirs for you to find...….Joe
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Post by Txsteader on Mar 6, 2020 21:34:49 GMT
Haven't had much of interest to report but today is such a perfectly beautiful day, we actually did a bit of mowing. Still wet in places but I got the immediate yard mowed (and massive piles of oak leaves mulched) while DH mowed the frontage w/ the brush hog.
Made 2 qts of yogurt this morning, jars are incubating in the oven (pilot light) now. Replanted some tomato seeds - all the Supersweet 100 plants croaked so I replaced them w/ Principe Borghese. They're getting off to a later start than the other varieties I planted in January, but they'll catch up quick in the warm sunshine.
It felt SO good to get out in the sunshine and fresh air!!
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Post by daw on Mar 6, 2020 21:46:51 GMT
joebill, that as my first thought but.... the spoon is nearly 2 “ wide flat no cupped sides. I can not post pictures for some reason even to imgur. Maybe Apple and google are laying claim to the pictures. It has very tiny dots but they are green as is the spoon in places. I am not saying it was not plated. This place was homestead in the 1800’s they lived here for a while then left there is no telling where they originally came from. . It was empty for maybe 40 years .Somebody bought it and modernized the house then sold it. I am the third person to live here. The people I bought it from lived here almost 40 years.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 22:37:38 GMT
Today, I pressure cooked bones for dog food. Put that and some meat up in jars, to make space in the freezer.
Took care of the animals, socialized the kids (PLAYED WITH THEM!), moved a wheelbarrow of compost to the garden...
Hung out way too much online. <G>
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 6, 2020 23:56:16 GMT
Got the rabbit grow-out cage frame hung, and the cages put in the frame. A young friend came by to help, as the frame was more than my sweet bride could handle. Everything fit perfectly, which I gladly took credit for, but was quietly surprised by.
Went to Lowe's and bought 18 bags of concrete, plus two pieces of rebar. Tomorrow a young couple who've worked for us many times in the past will be coming by to dig out a trench, then pour the footing for that big block wall that fell down from in front of the propane tank. Let me tell you a little bit about them. He's about 5'9", during the week works for a propane company. Last time they helped with concrete he walked easily with an 80# bag of concrete under each arm. She's a little bitty thing, whose father owns the local feed store. She throws 50# bags of feed around like pillows. We pay them well, and they're worth every penny.
Started out cold this morning, but by mid-afternoon I was shedding clothes like a pole dancer. Well, not really, but close.
Anyway, we've been busy doing little things that aren't worth mentioning here, suffice it to say life on the homestead is busy but fulfilling.
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Post by Tim Horton on Mar 7, 2020 22:42:05 GMT
Up and out today for a Saturday.. Today was "Seedy Saturday" at the big Lutheran Church in town.. Sweetie got several packages of perennial flower bulbs for bee attractants.. She got 2 packages of home collected green bean seeds.. On a heritage mix of some kind. The other a Mennonite 3A variety, both good for canning, and if dry on the vine, good in soups or to replant.. I got church lady pie and coffee..
A couple other errands.. Just pop in, do errand, get out as town full of Saturday people.. Mail box, library drop off, home..
Extended weather forecasts saying sunny, but cold 0C to -5C range.. But the time of year when the mountain passes on all 4 sides of us could be closed in an hour...
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