Whitey: 48 hours
Victims of Whitey: 3 meals or 1 pack of smokes, whichever runs out first.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 02/10/2010 7:29:27 PM PST by Kartographer
“Stand your ground’ could be a tough go unless you’ve got help. Talented help. We’ve made some discreet arrangements with some of our neighbors to ‘double up’ when it starts looking dicey.
And yes, the key is to call it before most everyone else does. Time for a ‘vacation’ or something like that. I’m prepared to excuse myself from work citing a ‘family emergency’ and head back ASAP. I can walk the 48 miles home if I have to.
so anything pre-1980 should be ok?
I preheat my canning jars in the oven, just like they tell you not to do. :)
I make sure they’re all spotless and dry, line them up on the oven rack and set the over to 200. And yes, they are hot, but they are close enough to the temp of the food that I have NEVER had one break. The problem with the boiling water method that they recommend, is that you are still putting cold jars into hot liquid and to my mind, that’s no different than dumping hot liquid into cold jars.
I tighten my bands to hand tight and probably have only had maybe one in a hundred not seal properly, which annoys me to no end. But then again, if it’s not my last canner load, it gets resealed and reprocessed or it goes in the fridge and we use it first.
I grew Heinz variety sauce tomatoes from seeds I got from Territorial Seed company. Best sauce I ever made. Excellent flavor. My tomatoes last year nearly got done in by blight, but I was able to salvage enough to make a few jars of stewed tomatoes.
I didn’t know that half jars would break as I never can a half jar amount. I use the next smallest jar and anything under a half pint, I put in a bowl and use right away.
Whitey: 48 hours
Victims of Whitey: 3 meals or 1 pack of smokes, whichever runs out first.
Read “Patriots” and “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It” by Rawles.
Then, anyone that wants to “go in on” a couple hundred acres near the rockies with us, let me know... :)
Mr. mm is planning on using some of our old windows to make a cold frame for the spring. We have some pretty big old ones that would work nicely to get a start on the cold sensitive plants. Since we can’t count on not getting a frost until even early June, we could EASILY gain more than a month of growing season by being able to protect them like that.
We also have lots of old curtains and mattress pads stored in the barn that we could cover the cold frames with to help hold in heat if worse comes to worse.
Sometimes I hate all the clutter from storing stuff, but we have what we need and don’t have to go out and waste money buying it.
Not much chance of having to “protect the Book”, according to scripture, at least:
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” Isaiah 40:8
“...having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever....” 1 Peter 1:23
“For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle [a tiny mark in the original spelling of a word] will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18
“And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.” Luke 16:17
LOL!
It would be done already, if they were only larger. :-)
48 hours.
fish cooker is all I ever use ,cuts down on the heat in the house
Glass top stove - The standard canner (I think 23 qt) is too heavy. It’s supposed to be ok with the smaller pressure canners.
Outside propane - supposed to be too hard to regulate propane, therefore temperature/pressure.
A friend of mine who worked in Falls Church at the time clocked out of her office when the plane hit the Pentagon, went home and loaded up her camping gear, and didn't stop to make a phone call till she got to the mountains.
I believe she'd have to do differently today, with several small children, but I'll bet she's just as quick-thinking and prepared.
thanks
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Possible garden ping list here.
In China they eat dogs, horses, and cats. My niece was just there. She said the only thing they don’t eat that has four legs.... a table.
We always store food and water, for hurricane season. Then try to use it up after Nov. 1. But I always have canned tuna, veggies, fruits, etc and bottled water on hand. IF we don’t lose power i have plenty in the freezer. If we lose power I will have a huge mess. We ahve a gas generator, but getting gas is impossible without elec., because the gas stations can’t pump gas without it
I use a pressure cooker all the time on my glass top stove, but not pressure canner.....
Hope this cold wet weather goes away soon, I should be planting stuff next week here in se Texas but it's looking to be to cold and wet for a while yet.
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