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@Becca_Anne, glad everything is fine in your neck of the woods. its nice that you have a basement to go to. Poor Ben, its hard to leave a pet behind, even for adults. But hopefully the dry runs will help him understand better. Oh Dear, I didn't hear about the new bombing. Thanks Mt. Rider and Mother.

Littlesister there is a place, RadAir, a couple of miles from me and I'll see if they offer a ride. I don't mind staying there for a hour or two to wait. I can take a drink a the Kindle. They did give me a loaner once but it was a fluke that they had one. I might have to wait until I go back to Indy so DIL can give me a ride. I noticed today it was getting warm in the Jeep. That's a great idea Mother. I've heard that most people put wood and branches and leaves etc. in the bottom of their raised beds. Helps to fill them up so you don't have to add as much soil too.

My heart monitor is off today and I sent it in It wasn't bad during the day but I alway kept waking up and checking it through the might to make sure it was still attached. It always was. Men wouldn't have that problem. Women...boobage. There was a sign in the post office that said we can't send any electronics to Europe, Sweden and Norway. But we could send computers, cell phones and something else. Can't remember the other thing. I thought computers and cell phones were electronics. I went to the local food bank and made a deposit. They were thankful to get it. It was frozen veggies that i over bought. They went to a good cause so I don't care. Then off to get a pizza. I haven't had a good one since before I left the hotel. It will last me for supper and tomorrow's lunch. I'm taking tomorrow off but Monday I'm calling to see about getting some of my yard landscaped and about getting my chimney cap fixed. Oh and I forgot my car AC broke last fall. I need to see about getting that fixed. Not sure how without a ride.

Thanks for asking OOTO. We did have some pretty bad storms roll through with some hail and high winds. We were in a tornado warning for most of the day. It has finally been lifted. No damage here so far. Supposed to be rainy tomorrow. I think its heading north east of me so I hope it isn't heading your way!

Miki, I'm glad Bo is working out so well for you. Getting him socialized and used to the neighborhood is a good thing. Bet he loves his walks. Littlesister, I get it about canning meat. I don't have any canned right now so I have to get on to that. I'm sort of just the opposit. My kidneys are getting worse so I have to limit my protein. It's just a good thing I'm not a big meat eater. I want to can a lot of soups too. But they are the hardest thing for me to can. It takes longer to make it and I can in pints so I can't fit as many in the canner. So I put it off.

Congrats to your GD on her track meet! I love it. That brings back so many good memories. My son was undefeated in the 400 dash in his conference and ran in the all state finals. He held his high schools high jump record for over 10 years. I think he jumped 6 foot 2 and a half. I can't member his fastest 400. He also ran the final leg of the 400 relay. He was a sprinter not a miler. He was long legged but wasn't a fan of the hurdles. I was able to get most of it on video. Back then video cameras were fairly new and huge. Really huge. LOL. Later I transfered all the tapes on to a DVD. Yeah, I was that mom. About a month ago he ran across it and showed his son and wife. I asked GS what he thought about it and he said, "Well grandma, you sure filmed a lot of sky and ground." I was new at it. Sheeesh. Thanks for noticing kid. Two years of Jr. High and four years of high school I was on a bleacher on the ground or in the car. Cross Country, Volleyball, Basketball and then Track and Field. Every. Year. In-between he sang bass in the school choir. At the time I didn't realize just how good those memories would be. Thanks for the flash backs.

You have a lot canned up! I'm not much of a meat eater but I'm going to be canning some up anyway. I want to do chicken chunks and pork chunks to use with dipping sauce. Mostly Bar-B-Q sauce. Glad you got your mulch. I just had my son call my lawn people too. It was so high and it's supposed to rain the next couple of days. They are here now. At least they came right away. What is it with these lawn care people. My last guy quit because I located two shrubs that he couldn't find. Big baby. Good riddance, he was too expensive anyway. My town doesn't play with over grown lawns. They post big neon green warning signs on your door.

I ended up with 50 half pints of carrots. It's a lot but my canner holds 25 half pints so it was just two canner loads. Canning for one is easier than canning for a whole family. That's for sure.

Another eventful canning night. I started out canning carrots. I originally got 36 half pint jars. I canned them in Beefy Onion Soup Mix. They turned out nice so I went and bought a couple more bags. I ended up with 50 half pints. Sounds like a lot, and it is, but my canner holds 25 half pints. So in reality it was only two canner loads. Half way through I started feeling faint. I took my blood pressure and it was 80/58 heart rate 82. Sheesh. That's too low even for a normal person. I was fine before and about an hour later. I think it's from the POTS. The 'P' part of it AKA postural (posture). I had been standing at the kitchen sink for a couple of hours when it hit. Sad when we have to play our own doctor. The tilt table test would have probably helped with the diagnosis but...transportation issues. But I've decided that I'm going to can all I can this year, not only because of the economy, but I'm not sure how many more years I can do it. My hands and back and legs were killing me and nearly fainting every time I can food is getting harder and harder. Hopefully once I get what I want canned, I'll be able to keep it topped off. I hope. Tomorrow I'm going to can another load of green beans. Then I'm going to top off my corn and peas. I think I have about 30 corns and 30 peas already done in Indiana. I eat a lot of vegetables. And I'll share with sons if they want. Only veggie left is beets. I want to pickle some later this summer. Next will be chicken, beef and some pork cubes. And spaghetti sauce and salsa. Sigh. I'll round out the summer with a couple of vats of soup. I can veggie soup and chicken veggie soup. And bean soup. Hopefully I can stay upright long enough. And have enough jars.

Midnightmom, you are welcome to move into my new kingdom. Where we kick a$$ and take names. My DIL's father does that with his belt too. Butt crack and belly hanging out but by golly his waist is belted in tightly. Embarrasses them too no end. I've been relegated to typing on a cell phone and it's rough. Not only does autocrap misspell, it adds letters to the beginning of some of my words. In the post up above it added 'go' to the word thoughtful. gothoughtful? Auto didn't even correct it just now. Nor capitalized it. Never mind what I type these days. Just go by what I mean. My granny used to say that. "Don't go by what I say. Go by what I mean" I have turned into my grandmother.

I saw that too. Still, $9.00 a can for probably only a couple of sandwiches plus the bread, kraut, cheese and mayo would be a pretty expensive sandwich. Even if it makes two.

CRS. I don't remember what that is. Yes I do. I just have selective CRS. Sort of like my grandpa had selective hearing. LOL

@Midnightmom, if you like the corned beef and it is a good price where you are at, I'd buy what I could find. I checked it out on line: 12 cans of the original chunky. 11.5 oz. Amazon = $71.00 Wal-mart = 77.00 But Amazon has the 7 oz. 12 pack size for $52.00. Is that the size you have? That sounds more doable for me. I need to see some 11.5 oz and 7 oz. cans side by side to better judge for myself. Product of Australia with no hormones and no antibiotics. That's a plus these days.

That was a very thoughtful post Mt. Rider. I think it describes most of us very well. Non-standard-issue body parts indeed! Auto correct got me again. Its getting worse. It's making up words now. I don't think it likes me any more.

I woke up with a migraine starting. It's been a long time since I've had one. I used to get them all the time but since menopause, they have eased up a lot. Hormone triggered I suspect. I did go to the dumpster and dropped off two stinky bags of trash. Wal-Mart was right there so I went in to get some onion soup mix that I wanted. Mistake. It was a madhouse. I'm starting to really resent those great big carts the employees push around who are shopping for others. They are so big and in the way and block half of the aisle. I saw one actually bump into a lady once because the shopper couldn't see around it. I hate em. Now if I ran the world... here we go... they would only do shopping during certain hours once or twice a day. And, the greeters wouldn't be just standing there looking at their phone. Their job would be to to unstick those carts so all a person has to do is go in and grab a single cart without trying to wrestle one out of a whole line of mangled carts that are all stuck together. One more thing, piercing is a personal choice. I'm fine with them. But when I go through a drive-thru I don't want to see a nose piercing hanging down like their nose is running. Take it out while you are serving food. I only got a sweet tea but it looked gross. And I'm sick of everyone backing into a parking spot. It's thanks to the backup cameras in all the cars now. You pull up behind a car and all at once they want to back up half a mile so they can try to back into a parking spot. Or if you are walking in the parking lot, they nearly run you over because they aren't looking where they are going. They are staring at a camera screen. Just pull your car in so we all know where you are trying to go. You're going to have problems loading up your groceries with the trunk jammed up against the trunk of the car that backed in behind you anyway. It's very doubtful you are going to have to make a quick getaway. Unless you are shoplifting. In that case get a buddy to park close to the door for you. Crimony. I got in line next to a guy whose butt crack was half out because his pajamas were falling down. He was over weight. So am I but I don't wear my loose fitting jammies to the grocery store. He was in his 60's and should know better. And he smelled pretty bad too. I ususlly don't pick that up. So he must have been pretty bad. I wasn't in the mood. Summer is coming on so I guess we'll be seeing halter tops and short shorts before long. Bellies and thighs galore. People are beginning to annoy me. And autocorrect...if I type one single letter 'i' you know it is supposed to be capitalized. There is no single lower case i. <-- And you do know what a contraction is, right? Do your job. I feel so much better now. I've been holding it in for so long. Om. 🕉

I don't think it was me but I do like to have it in the pantry and I'm out of it now. So I probably did mention it. That looks soooo good. I've canned corned beef before though. I bought the big slab that you get at the store in the fresh meat section around St. Patrick's Day. I pressure cooked it, tore it all apart to get all the fat out of it (that was a real pain in the rear!) And pressure canned it in half pints for reuben's. It turned out good but it wasn't so much like a spread. It was more like roast beef. The only corned beef I've seen around here is corned beef hash. With potatoes in it. Something like Marys Kitchen or Armor brands. I've never heard of that brand but I'll certainly look for it.

You talkin to me? You talkin to me! Yeah, I'm talkin to you. Said in my best DeNiro accent from Taxi.

Becca-Anne, you aren't feeling sorry for yourself. Just assessing your strengths and weaknesses. You can still make your dream come true. Just not today. Slow and steady will win the race. I think we are all tortoises here.

It's Classico spaghetti sauce Necie. I have a few of those. They are very nice square jars with ATLAS embossed on two adjoining sides. I think the verdict is out whether they will stand up to pressure canning or not. Depending who you talk to I guess. I haven't tried canning with them but I wouldn't hesitate waterbath canning with them or vacuum sealing them.

It might be the same for me with quarts. I haven canned in quarts in such a long time. And the quart jars I have now are wide mouth bought for pie filling.

I got my Mom's jars in southern Indiana. That jar is definitely not a Moms jar. Mom's had a picture of an Aunt Bea (Mayberry) type of woman doing something with food embossed on it. And the word Mom's written across the top of the jar. Stacking jar issues is one of the reasons I like Kerr. They are all the same size. Even some of my wide mouth Ball jars are a a tad different in height. Same style of jar. Just not the same exact size. I only noticed it when I would try to stack them. Wide mouth jars are different. I can only fit 8 in my canner too. Regardless of whether they are Ball or Kerr. If I'm not mistaken, I can get 13 half pints in the bottom of my canner and only 12 in the top. It might be an issue with the rack but I use the same kind for the top and bottom of the canner. I could be wrong about that. I'll pay better attention next time I can.

I used to have some of the Moms canning jars. I got them in the late 1970's. They came out during the canning crisis when you couldn't get Ball jars or lids anywhere. It was worse then than it was during C-19. They were actually very nice. They were more square shaped and the pints seemed a little shorter than Ball jars. Still a pint but shaped differently. They had a picture of a woman in the kitchen, doing something, embossed on the front of each jar. I got rid of mine a number if years ago when I thought I was through canning. Yes, I've been canning since the 1970's.

Thanks OOTO. I didn't even think about olive oil. That I have. Will try it next week after I ship the monitor off. I have Tachycardia too. It's the T in POTS. Hopefully the cardiologist will have some answers in a few weeks. Littlesister, glad you got some help. Sure makes a difference, huh.

Whew, it was blustry at my house last night too. Last I heard winds were over 60 MPH. Lots of big trees down in my area. Nothing happened at my house unless my wobbly chimney cap blew off. Will have to check on that later today. I didn't lose power but it did blink once. A lot of people are still without power around me yet. Mt. Rider, it would be dangerous for your dog with those three dogs vying for her attention. Especially if she doesn't want it. Can you check out the newspapers or online for a dog sitter? Or maybe ask your vet for some safe recommendations? I made a huge vat of pasta salad yesterday and have been eating it non stop. I really missed not being able to make it at the hotel. No stove to boil the pasta. I'm making up for lost time with that and fried eggs. This is the time I miss my TV. I'd like to sit down in the recliner and watch a show with my pasta. No TV and no recliner. I've been eating most of my meals in a bed for a year and a half. I'll be glad to get back in the real/normal world. I just got my daily alert that I have four more days on this heart monitor. I'll be glad to get rid of it. My skin is pretty compromise around where the two sticky electrodes are attached. There is a gummy ring around where they are attached. Like that sticky black stuff left from an old bandaid. It isn't coming off in the bath tub. Goo gone...alcohol...time? But in the whole scheme of things, it wasn't a bad experience at all. Most of the time I forgot I had it on. Just annoying at night when I lay on my side and making sure throughout the night that it still stayed attached. It always did.

My glass door fronts slide back to stay open too. They have a magnet on the bottom to keep them closed tight. I pull them out and up and slide them back so it doesn't look like there are doors on the front if you'd want to use it like an open bookcase. It sounds like the kind I have. I love Amish made furniture too. It lasts for generations.