Dee Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 17 pints of chicken and 3 pints of broth in the canner. I let it go for 10-15 mins. until steam starts coming out the vent hole. When I get ready to put the weight on there is NO weight ANYWHERE. When I store the canner I put the weight in the lid. Last time I put it down inside the canner KNOWING I shouldn't but...... Yep, you guessed it! Underneath 20 pints of chicken and broth lay the weight. I had to take it all apart, get the weight out from underneath the rack, put the jars back in and begin again. Life was sooooooooooooo much easier when I was first learning and paid attention to every little detail. Quote Link to comment
CrabGrassAcres Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 I've done that only to find the weight was NOT in the canner. It had fallen onto the spice shelf over the stove that has a little rail I normally put all the weights on. Can't see the weight if it falls onto the shelf. Took 10 forevers to find and I was so very frustrated I was ready to pitch it all out the door. Quote Link to comment
Dee Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Oh my CGA, you must have been furious by the time you found it. Quote Link to comment
Amishway Homesteaders Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 well..................................... I bet you will ALWAYS check to make sure you have it from now on. we call that "Leasons Learned" ! Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) Life was sooooooooooooo much easier when I was first learning and paid attention to every little detail. Oh....Poor Dee! I know this feeling. So, I'm not the only one who gets UPSET with inanimate objects??????? They sneak around and HIDE y'know! Want to hear a REALLY bad one? In July when we had to bury BigDog....VERY hard to dig XXL hole in the Rocky Mts!!! [have since bought a PICK!] Had to hurry; Maui family was here; meeting them to eat..... FINALLY DONE...rolled her in with final farewell and was on my hands and knees shoving dirt/rock back into hole. Took shower. Put on town clothes and transfered things from the dirty shorts to my jeans. My little green bag is MISSING! I don't carry 'purse'. Has Drivers License, other I.D., and enough money to be very concerned about. We turned the place upside down.... Please PLEASE don't let me have buried it with BigDog! Within an inch of resorting to grabbing the shovel, I found it had slid from the pile of stuff to transfer to my jeans. Just there on the floor in an awkward place to see it. WHEW and thank YOU, God! Beyond the work of digging again....it would have been rather a horror... Now if I'd have been paying attention to what I took outta my pockets in the first place..... MtRider [ I'm skeered to do canning without supervision! ] Edited September 16, 2012 by Mt_Rider Quote Link to comment
Jeepers Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 You guys are making me feel normal. I went to take a shower some time ago and took my shorts off and then my undies. And there was a second pair of undies. Why I was wearing 2 pair is beyond me. How in the world can you put on the second pair and not notice you already have one pair on? It really makes ya feel strange. Glad I wasn't in an accident that day. Quote Link to comment
lovinit Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Well, if you were going to have an accident, that would be the day to do it. Momma always said, make sure you have clean underwear on......you might be in an accident!!!!!Bahhaaaahh!!! Quote Link to comment
The WE2's Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 You all are absolutely FUNNY! Had a friend tell me once that she took her contact lens out and could still see! She began jumping up and down praising God because she "was healed"...only to find out shortly that she had put a new lens over her older one. Phoooey! Quote Link to comment
suzyq322 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Mom and Dad lost 3 canner weights, both knew that they were put "right there" so they wouldnt get lost while washing the canners (all at different times). Still looking for "rtight there". LOL Quote Link to comment
Annarchy Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 In our house, we call it the "black hole". Never to be found until you absolutely do not need it. Quote Link to comment
CrabGrassAcres Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Or till you give up in despair and buy another....... Quote Link to comment
Dee Posted September 17, 2012 Author Share Posted September 17, 2012 With reading the responses I realize it was a minor miracle that it was actually in the bottom of the canner and not in "that black hole" somewhere. I am DONE with canning for the season. I will not read anymore ads and see things on sale that I just have to can a little more of. The mess is cleaned up, things are put away and will stay put away this time! DH is combining corn and when he's finished with that and the rest of the field work we'll quietly await winter and hope for enough moisture to help alleviate some of this drought before starting in with farming and gardening next year. Good-bye to the 2012 summer gardens from our little homestead! Quote Link to comment
lovinit Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Hey Dee! I thought of our farm folks yeasterday when I saw this video on you tube. It is called "Grainery Singing 101" by Christine Lewans. I only ever yelled in to hear the echo when I was a kid. Check it out girl. Quote Link to comment
Dee Posted September 17, 2012 Author Share Posted September 17, 2012 Wasn't that pretty. I would have liked to hear more. For those of you looking her name is Catherine Lewans and it's worth the look. Well, maybe not if you've never heard the awful yelling all we kids did in grain bins. Thanks lovinit Quote Link to comment
The WE2's Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 2012 garden...done...yep, pretty much (frown). Still have so many green tomatoes turning. Being a dehydrator...I've always got an eye peeled for frozen foods on sale. Have a peaceful winter Dee! Quote Link to comment
lovinit Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Ahhh? Was that one of THOSE moments? Sorry for the misinformation on her name. I like the "Amazing Grace". Quote Link to comment
Jeepers Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I still can't find the two batteries that go to the weed eater. I know exactly where I put them because they went with my other stored batteries. But they aren't there. I've looked for months. Finally son bought a gas weed eater but I can't operate that one. I can't start the gas ones. Those batteries cost $50.00 a piece too. It really is a mystery where they could be. When I used to lose something and ask D-ex where it was he would say, "It's right where you left it." No kidding smart stuff...way to help. That would make me so mad. Quote Link to comment
TheCG Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Back on the topic of undies... I once woke up with my underwear under my pillow and my pajama pants still on. I'll never know how I managed that in a sleeping bag at Grandma's house.... Quote Link to comment
ScrubbieLady Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Around our house, the saying is that we "have one around here... somewhere". I keep my weight in the padded envelope inside the canner when I am not using it and when I get the canner out, it stays right on the countertop next to it or I would lose it in the junk drawer. Quote Link to comment
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