Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Im posting this here because my Dad was the best gardener I have ever known. Its a a tough day today. I buried my Dad a year ago today and my Mom 7 months before him. After Mom passed I spent about every day at his house, cooking, cleaning and helping him live on his own at 91. My parents taught me everything important in life, including the ways of life most of us live and practice daily in this community. My Dad taught me how to hunt and grow food and Mom taught me how to prepare, preserve and can it. Today I opened the last jar of grape jelly I canned from my Dads grape vines last year. As you can see from the date on the can, it was canned on the 20th of August a year ago. It was the first time I had made it without Mom. The next day Dad went to the hospital and never came home again; he died on the 29th. While he was in Hospice I fed him his last meal. It was his grape jelly from this same batch on toast. You would have thought I gave him a steak dinner. I never thought my dad would be gone when I made this batch of jelly and I definitely never thought I would be feeding him his last meal. My challenge to everyone in our community is to keep our ways of life going. @ Papasop taught me this indeed is a community. Inside this community there are differences, but there is respect and everyone is willing to help one another. Your traditions, beliefs and betterment of this great country and community has to continue. Pass along your knowledge. It will come full circle some day.
GWG8541 sorry for your loss but be thankful for the time and memory’s you have with the values they instilled
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GWG8541 nice write up. Just think how lucky you are to have the knowledge and memories. I would like to share a quote with you that my buddy shared with me when my dad passes away.
“GRIEF NEVER ENDS, BUT IT CHANGES. ITS A PASSAGE, NOT A PLACE TO STAY. GRIEF IS NOT A SIGN OF WEAKNESS, NOR A LACK OF FAITH…ITS THE PRICE OF LOVE”
my thoughts and prayers are with you today
kyle thanks, that is a great passage and perspective. I was blessed to have great parents and grandparents. Even more blessed to have had them so long. After being in law enforcement for over 35 years now, you see a lot of carzy and not so good things. The biggest reality of the job is that none of us are promised tomorrow. I try to make the best of each day that is given to us. Thanks again.
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GWG8541 Grief and sorrow that one feels from losing a loved one never ends.
Lost my brother when he was 17, I was 9.
My brother in law that took his place in our family when he was 24, I was 17.
My father and I worked closely together in construction each of us having our own business. Losing dad was extreem on me.
It has been my extreme honor to carry all of my uncles and 3 aunts to the internment site.
I’m 67 in a couple of months now, the eyes still spring a leak when I think of my loved ones very dear to me that have passed.I am so sorry for your losses.
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Canned dill pickles tonight, used my sous vide to maintain a percise temperature for canning.
Tex_77 Looks like a great idea, never thought of that, I will have to give it a try,
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Started a small batch of kraut.
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
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Surg interesting. I wonder if thats the tops that @DennyO uses. Have you used them before surg?
hey vegetarians, my food poops on your food!
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Tex_77 still haven’t found a recipe for bloody Mary mix
but canned 36 quarts of spicy V8 and a 3 pint trial run of rotel. It took 60lbs of tomatoes. 
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Tex_77 we couldn’t find ball lids so had to use another kind. Do you know what caused this during the hot water bath. 7 out of the 36 did this.
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Surg interesting. I wonder if thats the tops that @DennyO uses. Have you used them before surg?
kyle
My nipples look to be a little taller. I don’s know if his has the clear glass disks, mine are laid on top of the folded full leafs.
But anyway here is a pic of mine at work. -
Tex_77 we couldn’t find ball lids so had to use another kind. Do you know what caused this during the hot water bath. 7 out of the 36 did this.
cdavis over-pressure. The pressure didn’t bleed off through the seal. Were the bands to tight?
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Tex_77 we couldn’t find ball lids so had to use another kind. Do you know what caused this during the hot water bath. 7 out of the 36 did this.
cdavis
Charlie, I’ve never seen that before.
Not sealing, yes
Boiling some out of the jar, yes
Just not that.Denny O’s-Smokey Bones
I’d rather be sit’in in a boat and thinking about God,
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cdavis over-pressure. The pressure didn’t bleed off through the seal. Were the bands to tight?
johnsbrewhouse my wife said they were not. But I think they must have been. She does alot of canning and this is the first time it’s happened to her. She blamed the new lids.
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cdavis
Charlie, I’ve never seen that before.
Not sealing, yes
Boiling some out of the jar, yes
Just not that.@dennyo she said it’s never happened to her.
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Did the lids seem to be a lighter material thickness?
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johnsbrewhouse my wife said they were not. But I think they must have been. She does alot of canning and this is the first time it’s happened to her. She blamed the new lids.
cdavis Those lids might be thinner too if they are made offshore
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cdavis
Charlie, I’ve never seen that before.
Not sealing, yes
Boiling some out of the jar, yes
Just not that.@dennyo by the way your kraut is looking really good
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Thanks Charlie!
What all is in your V8? -
cdavis Those lids might be thinner too if they are made offshore
johnsbrewhouse she said all she get shipped from China. Go figure.
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A couple of years ago I tried a copy cat V8 that was rather high rated and I thought it s—ed.
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cdavis canning tomatoes has all most got me ready to pull up my plants. Thank goodness the end is in site.
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