Midnightmom

I just saw this idea in my FB feed and thought it was awesome! (Similar to the "potato in a bucket" idea.)

@Littlesister Sounds like he's had a "plan" all along, but he was rather good at keeping it a secret??? With those ambitions I don't see why he has been "stalling" so much on the physical, etc. 

Added some more flowers to my "garden." Had to "transplant" some others to accomodate the changes.

BTW - take a look at the Gnomes. One of them is not like the others - can you find it???

14 hours ago, Jeepers said:

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. 

Had to try it as I was curious about whether it would be like the "other" stuff. It t'weren't. It was surprisingly good, but undecided if I will spring for a few more cans or not.

17 hours ago, Jeepers said:

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.

 

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. 

Let it all out, Jeeps! 

(Color coded responses follow..............)

I like your idea about the employee shopping for online orders being limited to certain hours. They are usually shopping for at least 6 people at one time so those "carts" are huge. The only advantage I see to them is that there are so many of them (at least in the grocery section) that if you need help with a price or getting an item from a top shelf you can usually corral one of them into helping instead of picking on a random shopper who is taller than you are! 

Anyone who works around food should not be allowed to wear their facial piercings around oral cavities while working! 

Some overweight people try to fool themselves that they aren't as big as they are by wearing ill fitting clothes. I notice this mostly in men who buy pants that fit around the "waist;" the waist BELOW their abdomen so that sometimes you can see their belly fat hanging over their belt because their shirt isn't long enough to cover it! Then there are those skinny people who have no butt to hold their pants up and the only reason they don't drop to the floor is because their "equipment" holds the pants up. 

You're right, "autocorrect" isn't always correct. I hate typing responses into my cell phone! And "talk to text" isn't much smarter because it doesn't know how to pick the correct homophone based on context. I see "flower" instead of "flour" about 99% of the time! 

I have the 11.5oz can of the Corned Beef. It was $6.99/can at the Grocery Outlet store.

If you purchase any of the 12 packs online, it works out slightly cheaper than what I paid........................ but who has $100 to spend on cans of corned beef!!!!

However, I did find it available on Amazon by the can and that makes it $8.99/can (with Prime) .................. https://a.co/d/7i7MiHl   

@Jeepers

Was it you that wanted to put-up corned beef?

I've treid the CB that comes in the same size and shape of SPAM cans. Did not like it at all!!!

Was shopping at the Grocery Outlet and found this! Like it says on the can, it was chunky - but not soft and mushy at all. I made a very tasty Reuben sandwhich (or two) with it. Am going back to the store to pick up a few more cans. 

40 minutes ago, Jeepers said:

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.    

Can only get 7 quart jars in the canner at one time. Nine jars is for the pint size jars........................ unless it's a load of the ones that are "fatter." 

1 hour ago, Littlesister said:

MidnightMom we were typing at the same time. Seeing that jar I have a couple of those jars. They have that same picture on them. Didn't know they were Mom's jars. 

I didn't say they were "Mom's" jars, I just said I had some other brand that is "fatter" and "squatter" than Ball & Kerr jars are. Can only fit 8 of them in the canner at one time. 

2 hours ago, Jeepers said:

I used to have some of the Moms canning jars. They were more square shaped and the pints seemed a little shorter than Ball jars. Still a pint but shaped differently. 

I have some jars like that, too. But these are NEW jars. I can only fit 8 into the canner at a time instead of 9 and they take up just the tiniest amount of extra space on the shelf so it throws off the whole symmetry of stacking them. They say mason on the back of the jar, but that just means canning for these jars - not the brand name bacause it isn't stylized like the logo would be.

(BTW, these were gifted to me so I have no idea of the brand. )

On 4/10/2024 at 9:49 AM, Littlesister said:

Might could do 20 bags at a time. It is on sale till the 17th at $2.00 a bag. So will need to just drive to Lowe's in hope's my knee holds out or maybe wait till GS is off work and can drive me there to pick it up.

Can you do a short term rental on a pickup from Lowe's to get it all home at one time?

I'm pretty sure you can rent one at Home Depot so I was wondering if Lowe's has the same option.

5 hours ago, Jeepers said:

I'll tell ya. Kerr canning jars. They are the wide mouth half pints. I don't like the wide mouth half pints because they are really too short. I like their regular mouth jars because they are tall instead of short. 

I'll have to check MY WMart to see if they have those jars. I like the idea of them being used as individual "salsa dipping jars."

BTW @Jeepers How much did your jars cost at your WMart? Mine were $14.63 for a case - website said "Normally $24.99. Not in my world would I ever pay that much for jars!!! And, when on the website you have to be careful that you are ordering curbside delivery because the same jars purchased "online" are at least double the "normal" store price!!!

On 4/2/2024 at 11:21 AM, Ambergris said:

Well.

 

I found my big canner, the 23 quart I think it is, the one that holds two layers of jars. 

The bottom is round.  The pop-out plug is popped out and loose.  But mostly, the bottom is round, like the kind of kettle you hang over a fire.  It will never again sit flat on a stove eye.  It could possibly work somehow as a pot with a fire-ring to hold it up, but not by my hand. 

 

I tossed it.  

 

I think I will hide the little 16-qt canner.

 

It is best that you tossed it because once upon a time it probably ran dry and ruined it for future canning - pressure canning that is. The "safety plug" could have been replaced, and a new gasket used, but once the bottom is distorted like that it is not safe to use as a pressure canner anymore.

3 hours ago, Jeepers said:

I see 10 right off the bat. But I'm handicapped without my laptop. I keep having to scroll up and down on this phone.  

Yeah. I "transplanted" a few things and added some others. The coolest thing is that the "insect" on the sunflowers matches the "insect" on the fence sections, and the sunflowers were purchased a few weeks ago and the fence segments a few years ago!

First "update." Spot the difference???  

My 2024 Spring "garden" is "planted."   

(I think I might have posted this in another thread -back in March(?), but decided to keep it here, including all of the updates and "progress" reports.)

11 hours ago, Littlesister said:

Yep, that is for sure ugly strawberry jam. I don't eat enough of it to warrant making jam any longer. So, I just buy a few jars, and use it up till I am down to one and then replenish it. I do have a few more jars than I would normally store because of GS using it. 

You can use this recipe to make one jar at a time: no pectin and no water bath canning needed. And, it is delicious!!! It is my new "go to" recipe.

Water, strawberries, allulose, lemon juice, xantham gum

After using either method of getting a band unstuck, I would definitely due the "tap" test to make sure the lid is on there because of a true vacuum seal and not just being stuck like the band was.  

I actually have 3 1/2 cases of the strawberry jam I made last year. It looked delicious back then, now, not so much. Apparently, sugar just isn't for flavor, but also functions as a preservative - especially in "preserving" the color of the fruit in the jam. I believe I used Swerve when I jarred these up. Not at all appetizing, and I don't eat a lot of it anyway, so I am pretty sure they are going to get dumped.

THEN:   

NOW:   

4 hours ago, Necie said:

 

Make wine!!! 🍷 

How???

Remember, these were made with a sugar substitute. 

I think I have 4 or 5(?) cases of half-pint jars. Most of them currently have strawberry jam in them as I went "wild" last summer when the 99c Store was selling one pound packages for 99c each! They looked sooooooooooooo pretty - last year. Now, not so much as they were all processed as low-sugar recipes and they all look "grey" now. They still taste ok, but the appearance is very off-putting......and we know we "eat with our eyes" first.

Given the current circumstances, I am very strongly considering cleaning out those jars and using them to put up some other items that it doesn't make sense to store in larger jars: salsa, spag sauce, some other condiments(?), and possibly some corned beef??? (cooked, shredded, and loosely packed 50% meat/broth as if in a soup). I haven't made up my mind on that yet, but at the same time I could not pass up buying extra when it was on sale in March. 

I'm not really sure what will wind up in those jars............yet. I like fresh asparagus, but have no idea if I would like it once it has been canned. Would buying a jar of commercially canned spears help me make up my mind??? (feel free to give me some opinions, please.)

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8 hours ago, Becca_Anne said:

Midnightmom not sure what this has to do with Making Memories but that's more like the stuff of nightmares glad I skipped the Easter candy this year 

Since Easter is a celebration with "traditions" this seemed like the best place to put it. 

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We had quite an interesting weather pattern here yesterday.

Got home from helping a neighbor and it was hailing so I decided to "wait it out" in the car. The hail came through in 3 different squalls and I was finally able to get out of the car and into the house. This is a short vid of what is sounds like inside of a car when it is hailing! You can't hear it while the window is up, but once I put it down (ever so breifly) you can hear the thunder that came with this storm.

I don't think a many people had gardens in yet, so I don't think the hail did damage to that, but, if you weren't prepared for high water you might have had some issues!

These are pics of different areas of the SAME town! Some places got it thicker and faster with larger hailstones. In some places the hail didn't melt, but accumulated like snow. In other parts it came down so fast and hard and melted so quickly that is caused some local flooding.

I-5 south of Anderson got some significant accumulation of hailstones. It was rather slow and treachearous be driving at the time.

Someone was able to take a pic of the stormcell from Redding (looking south towards Anderson)