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It took a while for our tomatoes to really hit their stride, but at the end of August, they started ripening a thousand a minute or so. Since the whole goal of learning to can was to do something with our tomatoes, this was very exciting. Marinara sauce is a huge part of that goal. […] Our own canned marinara sauce and plums Lately, most of my calls with my mom include her telling me once or more that she’s so glad ONE of her daughters learned how to can. Take that, four sisters! I win–mom likes me best! I have put her instruction to good use, unlike certain […] As promised, here’s Brooks’s perspective on bottles, deposits, and meth heads. —————— So, thank you to Ms. Christine for letting me post on her blog. I don’t often have blogworthy thoughts, but here’s one. [Editorial comment: this is not factual. On any day […] I spend more time thinking about how to thwart meth heads than I’m really willing to admit. But the fact that every bottle of beer we consume means a meth head has a shot at freakin’ five cents galls me. We’re talking TENS of dollars in annual contributions to the criminals if we set our […] |