Sorry for the lack of posting this week. The kids and I have been sick all week. In spite of it, tho, I’ve managed to get some more canning done. This is probably the first August in Georgia it has felt good to work in a steamy kitchen.
I’ve canned 4 [...]

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One of the neat perks of doing paid posts is you get freebies every now and then if you are willing to do a review of the company’s product. A few weeks ago, I was selected to do a review for some custom wooden blinds. That was awesome, as we needed a blind [...]

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Peaches and Muscadines from Collins’ Brothers. Pears from Grier Farms
We got up early and went to our county and state farmer’s markets on Saturday. The farmers from our local county are really hurting with the drought. One had a sign up saying “No rain - No Tomatoes!”.
As for the [...]

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No matter what side of the fence you are on about the war, our heroes NEED US to provide them with the comforts we would afford our own family members. Often, as with anyone facing serious medical care, kindness, love and hope can be some of the best medicine!
Soldier’s Angels’ send out [...]

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One of my jobs in my past life was Senior Systems Programmer/Analyst. I had to perform the nightly, weekly and monthly backups for different companies and store that information offsite. In those days, ugh just 10-15 years ago, we used Mag tapes and cartridge tapes. Nowadays, users can fit as much on [...]

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Cellfish is a really neat program. Slobo was updating his blackberry last night and showed me how easy it is use Cellfish to download and upload images for other cell phone users.
Everytime we go to my mom’s, she is always asking for help about how to get an image on or off [...]

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Slobo sent me the link to get a Simpson Avatar…. lol. Think this program knew more about me than I did!

Yep, this is me. Pleasantly plump, para-menopausal, graying hair, and I heart my mom! And, the crossed arms serve two purposes, holds the maters up and hides ma belly, Don’tcha Thank?

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Tomato and Green Chile Salsa
(Watch out for those horny tomatoes)
Yes, we wrestled the traffic, the bugs, and the boiling 50 lb. pots and now have….. drumroll
11 3/4 pints of Salsa
4 lbs. frozen Kentucky Wonder Beans
and 9 quarts of Tomato Ketchup
Yes, it is the Weekend Canning Update…. Nothing as exciting as Miss Sodapop’s weekend, but [...]

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This morning I received my login for the USDA site (basically a customizable portal for thier site). It aided me in finding egg prices tho. The USDA does publish a weekly egg price report. One that came out just yesterday shows:
Large, Grade A
For Southeast - They report wholesaler prices at .97 a [...]

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Tonight, while searching for canning recipes (yep, tommorrow I cook and can woohoo), I started searching the US Dept. of Ag for canning info - one link lead to another and I found myself at the USDA Economics Research Service. Okay, being a 70’s child, I was intrigued when I saw the word Farmgate. [...]

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