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Thank you Mother! (Now I feel like I should have waited a month or two to add mine back on )

Lol, thank you Littlesister!

Mine is Feb 25th

Hah - I should have looked a little more before starting my own thread on this!! Yay, ideas! Off to search for recipes for these now ❤️❤️

DH isn't a huge fan of the texture, but he's the one who encourages me to use it. Personally I love summer squash sliced and fried in butter, but I'm the only one in my family who does 🤣🤣

Okay okay, we all know the jokes about it... What are your favorite ways to fix it, beyond the ubiquitous zucchini bread? I chop it fine and add it to stuffed peppers, I dehydrate it and add it to soups, stews, and casseroles, I've made 400 million versions of bread and muffins --- but maybe yours is better? Hit me with your recipes! I already have 25 bags of shredded zuch in the freezer. My kids are pleading for new ideas!

@Jeepers Fortunately, peach pie filling is really easy to throw into a pan with a crust of some sort and turn into cobbler ❤️ and DH, Mom, and the kiddos will cheerfully eat it all day, even if i don't want to look at it anymore 🤣 That last load took over TWO HOURS. Because it was late, and I was tired, I didn't really notice for waaaayyyyyy too long that the front burner was not heating correctly. Old electric coil stove, and I know that it happens once in a while, but a) late, b) tired. It honestly took me over an hour to realize that no, it does NOT, in fact, take this long for the wb canner to come back to a boil after you add jars. Switched to the back large burner and it was boiling in under 5 minutes. Oops. Today I picked the baseball bats, aka zucchini, and the latest crop of green beans and a zillion cucumbers.

Last load of peach pie filling is in the canner. Had one jar break and one not seal (so far). I gotta do a grocery run tomorrow. How are we POSSIBLY out of ketchup?!?! but we are. I didn't believe it and dug to the verrrrry back of the pantry... I'm still mildly suspicious that I will find four bottles of it. Tomorrow. After I get home from the store. DD18 ran off to a party with friends, so she and DD10 didn't pick me any blackberries today. And she works tomorrow. Sigh. Saw this and giggled. Seems accurate. 🤣

I know zero about huskies, but I have 3 German Shepherds. (1 is ours, 2 we inherited when Mom came to live with us) They also blow their coats twice a year. THE HAIR. 🤣🤣 They are fantastic family dogs, but not good farm dogs. Too high of a prey drive. Our boy is well trained, but I would not trust him by himself around any of the livestock. Mom's are NOT well trained and I don't trust them period. They are very smart dogs and will learn whatever you teach them -- good AND bad. Mom taught hers to come only when offered treats, to run through the house and jump on beds and furniture and people, and to bark at everything that moves. It's taken us almost three years, but we've almost got them tolerable. 🤣🙄 All 3 of ours are 10+ years old, so we are not expecting to have them for many more years. GS life expectancy is 9-12 years IIRC. When we are ready for a new dog, we will probably look at English Shepherds instead. Medium sized, supposed to be good farm dogs as well as good family dogs, described as "border collies with an off switch" 🤣🤣

Midnightmom, I'm glad the damage wasn't worse!! (Jeepers, I also immediately thought it was Sam Elliot ) Peaches and blackberries today. Peaches from the u-pick a few miles away. Blackberries from my pasture fence line lol. Peaches will be put up plain for the most part, with a few jars of peach pie filling for funsies, and blackberries will be seedless jam -- I finally found my berry screen for my victorio strainer! When I used it last year I did NOT put it back in the box, so it's been AWOL so far this season. I'm ignoring the zucchini and green beans and cucumbers today and tomorrow I'm sure I'll regret it 🤣🤣 but a person can only do so much!

Already got loads, but I appreciate the thought!

Strawberry all the things. The only problem is, I'm running out of ideas and there's still about 8 lbs of strawberries staring at me wanting to know what they get to be. As an aside, at one point today my watch congratulated me on completing 45 minutes of rowing. I was hulling strawberries, but okay...

I'm late to the conversation, but - I've been using the ForJars brand all summer and I have to say I've been quite impressed by their quality. Over the course of the summer, I've gone through close to 600 lids and I think I've only had 4 failures total. Compare that with the past several years of 2 or 3 PER CANNER LOAD with Ball, Kerr, and Golden Harvest - I'll stick with these for now. I'm very curious about the new Tattler ones... somewhere I read that they will be used with the regular rubber gaskets? That person may have had incorrect information, though. It will be interesting to see!

Thank you Ladies <3 <3 <3

Oregon has already added 8 more to that number 😔 and as a country we appear to be adding about a thousand a day now. A few days ago it was only about 200 a day. Crazy and sad.