16°f/-8 9°C, sun, clouds, and snow flurries all day.
Some photos I don't think I've posted yet:
Today's canning: peaches from a gallon can, re-processed into usable portions. I did yams too.
Still plenty snowy out there
Clyde, taking his ease.At 17, he's earned it.
Pricing, pricing, pricing. 6 totes ready to go!
The beginnings of the chili beans I canned yesterday: washed dry beans, spices, dried onions and green peppers, a little tomato juice. Next, fill with water, lids on, process at 10 pounds pressure for 90 minutes. 14 more quarts done, and all the beans are now processed!
The moon last week,before the snow.
Okay,
Booger Hole is actually a place in
Clay County, WV, which has a dark story. I bought from the author about 15 years ago. It's a rare book,and I decided to sell on ebay. It sold quickly for $50. Now, will the buyer just read and request to return it? It is a very small book, after all, but not another for sale anywhere in years.
An afternoon snack last week: the two kinds of
fruitcake I made in December. Both are delicious, and quite different from each other.
Along the road to Weston last week, this workman was literally hanging over the steep dropout on the side of the road.
and the adjoining graveyard, with the distinctive
stump gravestone. If I remember right, it's the grave of
Mr. Stump. There is a community not far from here called
Stumptown, named for this family.
Haywagons at rest near the auction house where we picked up our wins last week.
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...I love that old barn and you may find this interesting.
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You keep ball jars in business! And the lids of course! When dry beans keep so well, why do you can them? Just wondering.
ReplyDeleteBarb, I can them so they get eaten! The whole normal process of an overnight soak and a couple hours or more to cook them takes too long. Larry is the one who eats most of them, and it is great ro have them already cooked for him. He usually eats lunch but I don't, so this is an easy meal for him to fix for himself.
DeleteThat was an unusual church.
ReplyDeleteThat's very tacky -- read and return. It's one thing is the condition is unacceptable and badly represented but to read and return? NO! And well done on the canning. You are a regular machine at that and well done indeed!
ReplyDeleteI remember the fruit cake. I think the one on the right was a new recipe? That sign is funny.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed you pictures. I know many of those places in addition to the Spencer ones.
ReplyDeletePeople really do that?!?! Read a book and request a return?
ReplyDeleteA new addition to my vocabulary for when there's a bothersome situation requiring tough decisions like the weeks after the barn destruction: "I'm living on Pickle Street!"
ReplyDeleteLike Barb I wondered why you bothered canning beans when they're quite easy to soak and cook up. Now I see why you do that.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever look at those bins of things waiting to be priced and think Why do I do this? I just wondered.
Yes, I do! But once I get started picking ing, I actually enjoy it. Looking the things up, imagining where I will put them in the booth, possible vignettes, etc, it's like a game in a way. The hardest part is the cleaning, and then the research can take a while. Some things, though , I just price without doing any research, just price to make a decent profit and let it go. Sometimes the buyer gets a great deal, and that's okay with me.
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