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When the serum arrived in Africa, the doc. offered it to the nurse..But he took a turn for the worse. They gave him a dose, and found that they actually had enough for 2 doses, so both were given this. They said the doc. showed a big improvement within one hour. This is an experimental treatment, developed by a very tiny company..I think a group of 7, who are trying to fill a void and help people with diseases that no other company is interested in. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-ebola-patients-experimental-serum/story?id=24835127

We did 12 quarts, 1 pint of purple hulls and Mississippi Crowder Peas...I'm not sure how many of each kind...So much work, even with electric pea sheller..Wonder if they are worth it, but gives us some variety.

Violet is fine! She is one busy girl! Always doing something for someone else...She teaches and does so many volunteer activities, including making things for orphans in other countries!

Why would they not keep those other 50 passengers in isolation? If so many medical people are getting ebola, with special precautions, why aren't they protecting anyone that would come in contact with the passengers on that plane? For pity sakes!!!!!! It's like they want this thing to spread.

We have been canning green beans...71 quarts this week...Why do they take so much work!

That's what I was wondering. I was so excited when those weeds were sizzled by the end of the day and so sad to see them come right back. We have lots of Johnson Grass and I don't think that anything kills that! Sadly! I thought to use this mixture and then maybe go back over the weeds with the flame thrower,but I use a lot of hay and don't want to catch the place on fire.

I just did that exact recipe about a month ago. By the end of the day the weeds were sizzled, but sadly they grew right back. Maybe I needed to do it more than once.

We mix mustard and turnip greens. We cook with a bit of bacon and some onion. When it is almost done, we add a bit of baking soda and sugar and that takes some of the bite out of it. One of my chicks top 10, as they call it....is this: Brown some hamburger...Maybe a lb...Add some onion and garlic....Add in either a jar of purchased Alfredo sauce or make some homemade. Add some cheddar cheese and some parm, cheese if you want. Then takes some steamed and chopped kale and add to the mixture. We pour this over mashed potatoes or even baked potatoes...I don't have exact measurements, since we made this up...I don't think you can ruin it by changing the quantity of ingredients.

Thank you Jeepers~

Thank You! Happy belated birthday to everybody else!

I don't think these are exactly what you are looking for, but I ordered 4 boxes of them last week, so 400 and for less than $15...http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013H53YW/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I just wanted to check the link to make sure it all showed up...Those stinkin things have gone to over $5 a box, in just a few days. I paid $3.71 a box, with free shipping. For pity sakes! I'd still buy them....The day will come with these chicks where I may be very thankful to have them.

I don't think these are exactly what you are looking for, but I ordered 4 boxes of them last week, so 400 and for less than $15...http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013H53YW/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I hope your day has been wonderful!

Here is a link to an Obamacare Calculator. We hear about the premiums all the time, but it is pretty quiet about the other expenses...Deductible, co-pays...You know "out of pocket" expenses. I am absolutely shocked at what they think a family can afford or rather what the govt. thinks is affordable! Type in the info. for your family and find out for yourselves. http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/charliesykes/104495584.html I fear families will lose homes, children won't go to college, people won't be able to afford groceries, gas..... Seems like one more way to control us.

I hope Violet answers with a "Yes." This would be so much quicker and easier. Good idea Jeepers!

We put cookies and crackers, other things too.....rice, noodles, spices etc. in pint, quart, 1/2 gallon Ball jars, any canning jars actually....SEVEN years ago. We put o2 absorbers in the jars and vacuum sealed them. We took them out several weeks ago and I didn't think for a second that the crackers and cookies would be anything but dust. I was wrong! They were still as fresh as if I had purchased them that very day. No one can believe it and they are almost all eaten up.

Today we canned 3 quarts, 1 pint of white crowder peas and 25 quarts, 1 pint of green beans. Just waiting for the canners to cool.

My dear Old Order Mennonite friend and I...Our favorite word is "glean." I am fine if the "knotheads" don't want it...We will happily bring it back home. We love hearing there is a corn field we can "glean." Surely praying to hear those words again soon, thanks to those dang coons. . It's amazing the amount of food left behind in the fields. I will admit though...After canning over 200 jars of pickles this year...I quit going out into the cucumber patch.....It was time to move on to tomatoes and beans.

Asking for your own property back is not stingy. I think it's rude that they've not returned your traps after you brought it up the 1st time. This neighbor, one you've probably helped time and time again, once he knows your corn crop is pretty much gone--Will he offer any of his corn to you for you and your family? I am sure not. But the first words out of my Old Order Mennonite friends was "We hope to share with you." These neighbors knew it was gone and knew it was going...My neighbor also informed me something was eating my beans...An entire 250ft. row of fruiting beans eaten clear down. That was 3 weeks ago. Still those traps didn't come home. They have two of them. I had only one to chase these animals with and in multiple gardens. Actually pretty sure they still had some of my traps from last year, that didn't come back home. My neighbor asked for the traps 2 months ago and I told him he could use them, but I planned to set them out the following week, so I could get an early start on the vermin. All 750 ft. of corn is destroyed. I finally sent my son down tonight and when he came back, he could hardly tell me this...My neighbor had loaned one of them out to someone else. I am spitting mad. I feel guilty, but for pity sakes. I have given and given to these people.

There's always a little something we don't want to touch....Tell your neighbors to go to Sam's and buy a box of those hospital latex free gloves...Then they won't have to touch the fish! We use them for everything and believe it or not, they last for a long time.....I love them for poking holes in the ground, since I often have cracks in my fingers.

When I drove out today, to go to one more doc. appt...I noticed my neighbor at the picnic table, shucking corn...... Our corn is chewed up and mangled and what's left is rotting on the ground.....Tonight those traps have to come home. I feel so stingy, but.....

Oh my....We have jars everywhere. Hopefully they are heading south tomorrow. The blessing is that most of the very messy stuff is done now, at least until the apples and grapes come in. I will do some more tomato things, but mostly purple hulls, white crowder peas, and string beans. I freeze the baby limas with corn, since that is my chicks favorite. When I can, I calculate what we reasonably would eat in a year and I work towards a goal of canning that much. I figure 2 pizzas each Friday and one jar of pizza sauce will do 2 pizzas, 2 jars of marinara sauce per week, 1 jar of salsa a week....The first year I canned, we held that back as our reserve. When we can something new, we still do the same. If we don't use everything in a year, it goes in the reserve which helps us keep prepped up. I don't have any friends that will do that....It's funny that my chicks went right along with this plan. They really understood...Adults seem to have a problem understanding...All this does take a lot of space, but none of us wants to go into the basement, so the finished basement is now only for food storage. We actually all get scared, so we no longer use it. We boarded up the windows and added a dehumidifier. Literally...We all run down those stairs, grab what jars we need, and we fly back upstairs....Yes...Me too! That's what happens when your home is broken into too many times.

That's 342 jars!!! I don't know where you have room for all of it....................or how long it took you to acquire that many jars! I live alone (in an apt) so I only put up stuff in pint jars and mostly meat. I find it cheaper to buy my veggies canned when they are on sale -- mostly during the holidays. So congratulations on (literally) seeing the fruits of your labor. So this is what I was thinking about all day long....That I have 342 jars to wash, label, pack up, and talk someone into hauling into the basement for me. Thanks for adding them up! I thought "no biggie!" I'll have them done in an hour, but all I can think is 342, 342, 342! I guess we have to add in the 15 quarts of peaches we canned tonight. Honestly if these chicks didn't have so many doc. appts, we might fly right through these jobs.....In the past 4 weeks, we have been to medical appts 13 days and I added up the mileage...750 miles...That doesn't include back and forth to the pharmacy either...That is another nightmare. Oh well....We are grateful and eventually it all gets done. I don't blame you for not doing anything, but meat. If you can't grow veggies, it is too expensive. I'd do what you are doing if it was just me.

You are such a lovely person CGA. I pray for an abundance for you and your daughter. I also pray for you to have some peace I just don't understand people. I have given so much away, but I don't think it does any good and only wears us away. We lost count last year...But during the previous 3 years, we gave away 100 cases of freshly canned food. I tried to get people to prep, but all they did was gobble everything up. Nothing was saved for an emergency and no one is picking up and growing their own. This year has been my stingiest. I just don't have the energy or money. My chicks work their biscuits off. My daughter has had pneumonia for weeks, yet she is still helping me...Gracefully. We are all worn out, but this is our life. I am grateful for it. Our gardens are doing wonderfully. I have given almost nothing away. I am weaning everyone. My neighbors I am certain I have given 10-15 cases of jar, I've given them lids and rings and lots of seeds and plants and I have given them cases of foods I have canned. When I buy my fruit, I would drop off bushels of fruit, but not anymore. In their home is a 50+ son, that doesn't even do his own laundry, a 30+ granddaughter and her kids, and the 70+ couple. The husband gambles....I am only enabling them all. I love my neighbors, but the rest are just moochers and I am not going to take away from my chicks, to feed them...SO I have almost stopped, except when they ask for something...Then I don't know what to do. My traps are still in their garden and my corn is just about decimated. When I pick my veggies...My garden is 500. ft long...I drag a wagon back to the house and in front of my neighbor's house...I feel sneaky and guilty, loaded with veggies, but I don't unload until I get home. I will share with them....But not until I have absolutely every morsel I think my family can eat, all packed into a jar or a freezer.

Well...Eventually they get packed up and hauled to the basement. For now....Some are in a wagon outside...Those we WB'ed in the outdoor wood canner. The rest are covering my sunroom floor, filling a three level cart, and covering my kitchen counters. Some have made their way to the basement...Thankfully!