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Mt rider that is a good site about the meds. I have been storing all types of meds that I know will go past the dates. Yes the asprin is only good until you start smelling the vinager. But I have had asprin that has kept for over 2 years past date with no problem. I have bought some fish antibiotics about 3 years ago and they are just now starting to go out of date but are still good for quite a long time from those dates. Worse case is that they could loose there potency. I am going to wait another year before buying another supply in hopes nothing happens between now and then. Otherwise it might be sooner. Things in the world are not looking very good right now. Went to store to pick up DH RX and picked up a few sale items for my storage. After Christmas, I am going to pull everything out of closets and change those wire shelves that I hate and put in wood shelves. They work so much better for me. Having a list of the drugs glued somewhere on this site would be a great idea. I will try to locate mine as right now a lot of that stuff is on dining room table for me to go through and get into binders. I have started on it but things keep getting in the way and pulls me away from getting it done.

That is one nice kite. I really like it. And it is huge. Thank you Jeepers for thinking about DH. He felt much better after a long rest and an nap. Just something we have to deal with on a day to day basis. But we will get through it. He is my miracle and have had a few prayers answered where his health is concerned. First his stroke which was an anurism in the brain stem. They said it was a deadly stroke but he is still with me. He had to learn to walk all over again and get strengh back. That was over 20 years ago. Then in 99, he had a major heart attack after passing a stress test with flying colors. So much for those test. He was rushed to another hospital from a local one for emergency surgery after a heart doctor split a vein doing a cath. Came close to loosing him then as well. Scary stuff. He ended up with a 6 way bypass and a repair on the torn vein to stop bleeding. He had 6 units of blood before they even got him to the ER. I know the Lord was with us during those times and I know he will get us through this as well. They finished the driveway but cannot use it for 10 days as it has to cure. But I have windows now that are so dirty from the cement dust that I have my work cut out for me. So tomorrow I change my plans and start washing windows. And hosing down the porch and brick. Even the lights on house have so much dust on them the light won't shine through. That is a lot of dust. Ambergris, glad things went well with the insurance company. Smapshotmiki, I also was doing the shoeboxs. Did one for a girl and one for a boy. Took them back to church Sunday. So that is now done. But still having to buy some food for our food ministery. We will be giving food out the 3ed Thursday of November, so trying to pick up things our folks that can't afford, so they willl be able to have that for Thanksgiving. Then we will be working on the food for Christmas which will be given out the 3ed Thursday of Dec.

I also have the Hashimotos thyroid. I cannot take the generic synthroid. Have been taking the name brand now for several years and though it has helped better, I still get very tired at times and have to lay down to take a short nap. I ordered 2 bottles of the Bovine Thyroid health 130 mgs. from Nutri-meds and I am quartering them to take with the synthroid. If it works for me, I am going to try to wean off of the synthroid as I have never really felt right since I first started taking it years ago. I am going to be ordering more very so often to keep the dates from going out. Though from things I have learned from drug reps when I worked for doctors is a great many meds will last long past the exp. dates. You have to know which ones will last and which ones must be used by the exp. date. There are a couple of antibiotics that you cannot go past that date. The only thing is that you have to be careful that you are not over doing it. So you must know your body well.. Heart racing, etc. says you are taking to much and need to back off. So must pay attention to how you are feeling.

Went to church this morning and was planning to go back this evening but DH is not feeling well today. He did go to church this morning but really wasn't feeling well this morning either. So staying home this evening for him to rest. We had a hard rain this afternoon. So hoping they can finish driveway tomorrow. They just need to cut in the expansion joints and then it's done. Other than we can''t drive on it for 2 or 3 weeks. I am thinking more of closer to 3 weeks. My energy seems to be coming back some, so I guess just resting this weekend helped that. Sometimes I just go till I drop. Will be hosing the rest of house off after they finish making lots more cement dust. But at least it is at the end of the driveway this time. My brick house is white with the dust. It's on everything on back porch and the black cover over the grill has turned white. What a mess.

Jeepers, Thank you for that video. I seemed to have missed that last time I was on here. It explains flat sour very well. As far as I know I have not had that problem, but will be watching for that type of thing from now on.

I knew about the venting for 10 minutes as I have always done that. But first time I ever heard about flat sour from the jars cooling down to slow. Though I have always taken mine out when time was up after letting them sit in cooker for 5 minutes after removing lid to settle down. Then I would always remove them. though I to have had late night canning when I was working. But I did take time to take out jars. I am guessing do to habit. But I am glad to know about this.

Just been dragging today. Guess everything is catching up on me. Lots of yard work when they get finished with driveway. Cement was still to wet for them to do the cutting for expansion joints. So tomorrow it will be raining. So my guess is they will finish up on Monday. Then I have to redo all the landscaping between the patio and driveway where they had to move things to remove old driveway and pour the new cement. Then on each side of driveway and down front walkway needs to have dirt filled in. Time is flying, So much to get done and Thanksgiving and Christmas is right around the corner. And of course my energy is zapped. I am beginning to just think I am overwelmed and it's at a time where neither grandson nor daughter and son in law can get over here to help with the yard. But it is what it is. Grandson starts his on line classes Monday for college and has now gone full time at work. Daughter is in college and working full time. Youngest granddaughter is in college and working full time. The oldest grandson is stationed in Texas as he is in army. Oldest granddaughter lives in CA but is well away from the fires. Has not lost her power so far. And the 2nd oldest is in Maryland as her husband is in Navy and they may be getting shipped to either Texas or Washington State. He is Naval hospital so hard to say right now. He is in school in Texas right now and will be back in Maryland in Feb. So all my help at this point is unavailable and a husband that can't do much. Gee, no wonder I am tired. But by the grace of God, I will get there. Glad Luna is doing so much better. You really do take care of the dogs very well. Found out this morning my nextdoor neighbor's dog has breast cancer. She had a place come up on her within 4 days of finding a small lump and now it is huge. It keeps bleeding as well. So she goes back to vet monday as they think it is in her lungs. But she acts like nothing is bothering her. If the cancer is in her lungs, they have to make the dicission to put her down. I hope it's not and they can bring her home. I don't understand why so many dogs around here are getting cancer. This is the 7th dog that has passed from cancer. Something has got to be wrong. This is my neighors just a short distance around us. But on the bright side, today is DH's 81st birthday. He didn't want to go anywhere today, so we stayed home and had a good time. Fixed him an early dinner. Steak, potatoes and butterbeans. He enjoyed that. He didn't want much else, so I fixed what he wanted. Took it easy today to spend time with DH and tomorrow when we get home from church, I am going to just relax and enjoy the day again. Then Monday I will get started with the work around here. We are not doing a winter garden this year nor one in spring as well. Will hit the farms next spring. Going to get the garden soil built back up and then till it in spring and mulch it then. Not sure I can get it ready now for the mulch. Will talk to yardman when he comes to cut grass next week. Annarchy I know how you feel.

Finally made it to Harris Teeter but not the day I wanted to go. DH was not feeling well when he got back from cooking collards and I won't leave him by hisself when he feels bad. So went today.. Got the coconut oil to try. The one on sale was organic coconut oil in the glass jars. So got one to try out. I have a great deal of olive oil that went out of date that I got super cheap when Farm Fresh went out of business. So moved it all to shed to make olive oil lamps. You can burn olive oil in oil lamps and I think I have directions saved on pinterest on how to make your own in my DIY section. Will have to check to make sure and get it printed out.

Been cloudy all day, but they finished pouring the cement for driveway. Tomorrow they come back to do the cut and then clean up. I am so glad it will be finished. But still have to wait 10 days before being able to drive on it. Though we can walk on all but the abron. Took DH to store this morning as they had can veggies on sale for .27 but had a limit of 15 cans. We wanted the corn for the food ministrey at church as we had none to give out for Nov. and we feed anywhere from 28 to 35 families. So DH has his Vic card and I have one so we each got 15 cans of corn. Where there's a way around those limits on sales, we both go to store. I am up to my neck in cement dust all over everything in garage and on everything on back porch. I am going to finish working on garage and going through things as to what to keep and what will go. Try to clean up and organize as I clean off all the cement dust from everywhere. Got a lot done yesterday and a bit more this morning. Had taken down bedroom curtains and got them washed and because it took 4 panels to go across windows, I was going to redo them to make 2 panels. But with the garage situation and Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner, I am just going to hang them back up and wait till next time I take them down in spring to do it. Hard to believe some of you are starting to have snow. We have had low 50's at night and warm days though it is cloudy. No rain expected until Sat. So we are still going through where we don't need heat nor air conditioner. That is a good thing with what the cost of this driveway, porch and walkway will be. But think goodness for our neighbor. He really does a great job and gives us as he calls it the neighborhood discount. Still will be several thousand dollars though. But had to be done. Driveway was in really bad shape and ready to cave in. Two very large holes with one being 9 inches and the other 5 inches deep. The 9 inch hole was a disaster waiting to happen under that crumbling cement. But I will never have to deal with it again. Need to go get the larger garden in shape before our yard man brings the mulch. Need to get that started tomorrow. Going to call son in law to run tiller for me. Annarchy: Glad to hear Luna is doing better. My granddaughter's dog is named Luna.. She does rescue dogs and trains dogs as well. She has trained some police dogs as well. Something she had to go to school for and be licenced for. With having to move around for militarty, it makes it easy for her to find a job. Snapshotmiki, Making bookmarks from old Christmas cards is a neat idea. I like the idea of the Christmas ornaments from canning lids as well. Nice to get back to making things like that instead of buying them. I want to get caught up around here and maybe start doing some DIY projects again. It has been a while since I have had anytime do some of those things.

Got DH out to car at 5:45 this morning to head to market to cook the collards. So I started in cleaning some in the house, then by 7 am here comes the trucks to work on driveway. they got the apron ready to go and the cuts in the cement for the expansion. It's really coming along. So Tomorrow morning they pour the cement for apron, then come back next day to do the epansion cuts. Then the clean up and then a 10 day wait before driving on it. It takes 7 to 10 days to cure. I have white cement dust on the house, windows, chairs, grill cover and everything else that is on the deck. So when they finish out comes the hose and I need to clean up everything. I have already cleaned front of house and hosed down the brick to get the dust off. So now for the rest of house in a few days. Just hope the weather holds out. Next spring I will have to get house and patio power washed. The dust is on everything in garage as well. That's going to be fun to clean up. Got some of it today though. Winterized the big garage door after getting the dust off of that. Hope everyone has had a great week with no issues of illness nor bad weather.

Mt__Rider, You use plenty of water for boiling the collards. You need to put the jowl meat in to cook first. Once that is cooked add your collards. Do not put any other ingredents in untill the collards are starting to get tender. Add water if needed. Once collards are starting to get tender add everything except the salt. When they are fully tender then add salt to taste. Hope this helps.

Mt__Rider, The way we cook the collards: We use jowl meat, chicken base, salt, ving. and just a tad bid of texes pete. You do not use much as you just want that kick but not to be able to taste it. I can't really tell you how much of everything as I will have to figure it out. We always do 6 bushels at a time. We use a 35 gal. pot. That is a lot of collards.

Up again at 6 am as the cement trucks came rolling in. They got the cement pured in driveway all the way down to the apron.. Waiting for city inspector for the apron to get done. Then to wait a week, maybe a bit more depending on weather,, for it to cure. Then I can get car back in garage. We are parking on street in front of house right now and the sidewalk goes down into a slope so having to hold on to DH to get him to car. I will be glad when it is over. Scrubbed down the front of house this morning as cement dust is all over the brick, windows and everywhere else you can think of. So cleaned glass on door and cleaned the front door down and hosed off everything. When this is over, I will have to have the house pressure washed. What a mess. Windows will really need a good cleaning. Went to chuch supper and Bible study, so at least i didn't have to cook. I did take a pan of collards though. They won't let us forget to bring those as they seem to be the big hit at church. I am so tired right now so going to head to bed early. Got to get up at 5 am to get DH to the car and off to farmers market for him to cook collards for the market.

Jeepers, I am going to make some of the meals in a jar up and do like you said. Make in jar and then transfer to mylar bags. Defintly saves on jars. Snapshotmiki, we have general dollars here but have not seen any canning jars in any of them. But will check again. I have a lot of the golden harvest brand jars as well. Got a lot of them from yard sales for like 10 to 25 cents each. Haven't had any issues with them.

Going to Harris Teeter tomorrow, so will be picking up some coconut oil to try.. Would like to keep this in my pantry. They have canned veggies on sale for .27 a can, I want to get some for our food ministery. They will only allow you to get 15 so will have to take DH with me to also get 15 with our vic cards.

Another good one. This is a lot of good info on coconut oil. I saw the one about it being good fo thyroid and more energy. But this really has great info. So I am going to incorparate this into my food storage and start using it. I do use Ghee for cooking and like it. It has a very long shelf life. So I am hoping the coconut oil has a good shelf life as well. Will be checking into it for storage purposes as well as for using now.

Bringing this one up because of flu season getting ready to start. Yes I do see a lot of these are old post and need to be bought up as reminders for everyone that may have forgotten about them over the years. It really is hard to stay on top of all we need to do to stay prepared.

I am so glad to see this. I take synthroid and though I do have a small extra 90 day supply, It will not last. So I am so going to order the Bovine thyroid. I am familar with it from working in a doctor's office, but most doctors won't use it because they say it is to hard to regulate. Working in a doctor's office, I can say it is all about the use my drug and I will give you a kickback. Gotta love big pharma.

Wow! I have never heard of using coconut oil for low thyroid. I have low thyroid. I am so going to give this a try. I take synthroid and of course will have to take it the rest of my life. So any extra energy I can get will make me very happy. I love finding things that will help me.

Posting this oldie as now is the time for flu season to start. So time to get prepared.

Well, I didn't do some of the things i needed to do as to cleaning house. But did finish off the rest of the roma tomatoes that took forever to riping. So made pizza sauce and canned it. I can it in 1/2 pint jars as one makes a 12 inch pizza. For the 2 of us that is plenty. So now that that is out of the way, I can get back to getting the house cleaned up. I had started washing windows and never got around to finishing them. Now I am glad I didn''t because the whole outside of the house is covered with cement dust. That was one big mess and they still have to pour the cement if the weather will hold up. Looks like house is in for a pressure wash when all is done. but for now I will just hose down the house and wash off as much as I can and get the windows washed. Time is flying and I have so much to get done. Still have to get curtains back on bedroom window and a bathroom window. Washed them over a month ago. That is how far behind I am on everything. I'm tired just thinking about it.

Hi Jeepers, I like the idea of using the mylar bags for the meals in a jar. It's great to be practical. Saves on the jars for garden stuff. So when I can get the time to start doing those, I will be pulling out my mylar bags. Need to hit the market up for more 5 gal. buckets.

Ambergris, He strips the large stem from the leaf but keeps the small stem on them. Then he chops them. Not real small but small enough to be able to get as much into a quart container as possible with the juice. We made the mistake of taking some to our church dinner and now we are stuck with having to take them for every church dinner. They love them. The market sells them at 9.99 a quart and they can't keep them in stock. And now with Thanksgiving coming up he will be cooking at least 3 or 4 times a week. They freeze them for the Thanksgiven orders coming up soon. Time is flying and it will be here before we know it. I for one am not ready. Annarchy, I don't really care for beets. So have not tried the beet greens. Maybe If I can find some I will try them. You never know. I might like them.

Ambergris, Praying for your friend's pressure sore to be healed. I have had friends that had those problems. Not an easy thing to deal with.. We still need to be in prayer for both our president and vice presdent. Things are looking worse and worse for this country. The list of what if's are no longer all what if but how long before these things start to happen. EMP, pandemics, mass shootings, nuclear disasters, weather patterens, possibility of war here in the USA, bank closures, collaspe of this country, 401K's, stock market crash, recession, depression. And so much more that can go wrong. I believe that Donald Trump was put in office through God to give us another chance to repent as a country. It is not happening. Our Churches are falling away. I believe that God is using Trump for things that need to happen. I have studied revelation and watch close as to things going on in the world as much as I can. Very depressing to say the least. So I thank everyone that is praying for things to turn around and the possibility ( though I don't and am sure others don't agree with all that Trump is doing) But our choices are not going to be good. Just look at Venezuela to see what socializem has done to that country. I for one am praying that Trump wins the 2020 election and then brings out the real corruption going on in our gov. Soros for one needs to go. He has done a lot of damage and I heard tell that he is getting involved in the school system. That will be very bad for our children and grandchildren that go to public schools. I by no means want to offend anyone with anything. But to know that everyone is aware of the things that can and will happen. I don't know everyone on here and am very new to this forum. One of the things that got me to join is that you guys and gals do not seem afraid to stand up to your christian rights and talk about the Bible and God. Though I also know we need to be careful with what we say and do where politics and God are concerned so not to offend anyone with other view. That is why I am just saying to keep on praying daily about this country.

The CG, I have been checking into Butcher box. You are the first one that I have heard that uses it. That is good to know. I have been trying to get my freezer emptied so I can order from them to try it out. Right now I have no room in freezer for anything else. As soon as freezer has gotten down low, I will place an order.