[Ag-eq] Catching Up
Susan Roe
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
Wed Oct 10 11:14:46 UTC 2012
Hi Nella and everyone,
I go to my own doctor this morning to check my blood level for the blood
thinners. I am giving myself a shot of blood thinner in my belly twice a
day and a blood thinner pill in the evening until my numbers level out.
This in addition to my everyday meds and insolin in my tummy as well. Oh
yay! My entire belly and abdomin looks like a mule kicked me a good one.
The only good thing about that is at least it doesn't hurt like as if that
mule really did wack me a good one. LOL
Both Honey Crisps and Pink Lady apples grow in our mountain areas which is
about a nice two hour drive. We can go to Carter's Grove and either pick
our own or by them by the bushel and half bushel box already picked. I am
really looking forward to the Pink Lady apples coming in. You can find both
of them in local stors, but they seem to be bigger straight from the fields.
That is why I nearly pushed my husband out of the door to get my Honey Crisp
apples from our produce guy because he had just gotten them off the truck
directly from the mountains!
I have been canning all of my life ever since I was about four years old and
could help my mother sort jars, lids and rings as she canned loads of
vegetables, pickels, and jelly. I love every step but do mostly hot water
bath. We have a pressure cooker and I will do all aspects of it except
setting the rocker ball on top. That job is left for my husband because if
he blows the rocker ball off and lodges it up in the exhaust fan, like he
did when he was a teen pressure cooking pumpkin, he can't blame it on me. I
didn't falloff the turnip truck yesterday, you know.
Even my husband Matt loves to can. He is in Seattle now visiting his
brother and helping him clean out his garden for the winter. His brother
has friends that press their own cider and they did that this past Sunday,
where he took home six gallons of freshly pressed cider and two garbage bags
of apples. He told Matt that he really didn't want to take all those apples
and would probably just throw them away. I would have loved have been a fly
on the wall when big brother gave little brother the lecture on not waisting
nature's bounty when it was soconveniently dropped in your lap. So needless
to say, they have already canned apple green tomato chutney and Matt was
reading up on his brother's dehydrater and is sure to have that up and
running today. I reminded him that if there was a slow cooker that they
could also do the apple butter as well. Don has a steam canner that Matt
was really interested in that uses only inches of water rather than enough
water to cover the jars. You only have to boil the water until steam comes
out of small top vents and then start your timer accordingly. I don't think
this would be easy for the blind to use alone, but they could with someone
else. If I know my husband, we may be adding one to my canning inventory.
I'm glad my posts are being so enjoyed. I do a bit of writing and have
posted about fourteen articles to Matilda Ziegler Magazine. I am really
thinking about having a running journel style collection of "Views from my
Front Porch" as a reference for what works and what fails miserably on our
adventures here on Dogwood Farm. We'll see what pops up in the near future.
Still working on our farm cookbook and Matt has definitely been enjoying
being our number one taste tester.
Well buy for now, gotta get this morning started and morning chors done
before heading out to the doctor office. Then out to lunch with my sister,
pick up a bail of hay for Homer, a few things from the grocery store, of
course we can't forget the stop at the drug store and then home in time for
evening feeding, feed ourselves and then crashing in front of the tv before
heading off to bed. LOL
Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <nfoster at extremezone.com>
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Catching Up
>
> Susan:
>
> I'm so sorry to hear that your having helth issues. I hope you are lots
> better
> real soon.
>
> Do Honey Crisp apples grow in your area?
>
> They are one of my favorite kinds. I like Pink Ladies too. I think all
> the
> apples here are shipped in from other states; Arizona isn't very apple
> friendly! We can grow good citris here, which will be ready soon.
>
> Sorry to hear about your garden. My parents live in Arkansas and they had
> an
> unusually hot summer. Mom said she got very little from the garden even
> though
> she was watering. She also said the deer ate lots of stuff. I think it
> was so
> dry they were just eating what ever they could.
>
> Do you can with a pressure cooker?
>
> I would like to learn to can, but the pressure cooker makes me nervous.
> My
> Grandmother used to do a lot of canning and my Mom still does some. I
> used to
> help them, but mostly I filled and washed jars. I have small hands that
> can
> fit in the jars, so I had to wash lots of them!
>
> If you have any tips for canning when blind I would love to hear them. I
> am a
> good cook and comfortable handling hot things, just not sure about the
> pressure
> cooker. Maybe they are different now.
>
> One of the chickens dug out of my run and was killed by a neighbor dog, so
> checking the coops is a good idea. There's always something to do!
>
> I'm looking for a buck to breed one of my dairy goats to. She's just
> finishing
> her heat cycle, so I need to find one soon. Maybe next year I will breed
> one
> of this years babies. One of them has beautiful markings.
>
> Take care of yourself and please stay in touch.
>
> Nella
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Well, considering I came home from the hospital tonight (Monday night) at
>> 6:30 after going to the emergency room Saturday morning with another
>> onset
>> of blood clots in my lungs, I am doing pretty good. We haven't gotten
>> the
>> already pregnant dairy goat yet. I'm trying to hold my husband back
>> until
>> November 2013 because we don't have the milking area ready in the barn
>> and I
>> want it finished before we buy the female. Give Homer another year to
>> get
>> settled with a routine of being tethered once a day for extra forage so
>> we
>> don't have to cut so much for him in the winter. Then wehn we go to put
>> both of them out, it might help the female if she can tell that Homer is
>> not
>> skiddish along with her.
>>
>> This fall, we're going to strip all of my chicken coops, checking for
>> places
>> where the chickens have been scratching a bit too eagerly to get up under
>> their coops and for places where our farel cat population has been
>> digging
>> to get under the coops from the other side. One day, they are going to
>> meet
>> in the middle underneath the coop and only one is going to come out the
>> victor! LOL
>>
>> We had our garden wiped out this year due to a bad storm that came the
>> end
>> of June and took our power for 7 days and we could not water whatsoever
>> and
>> our temps were in the low 100's. But, luckily enough, we have a real
>> nice
>> small produce stand just up the road that took up where our garden left
>> off.
>> Matt purchased a half bushel peaches and Honey Crisp apples, so my sister
>> and I made peach preserves peach chutney and 4 quarts of dried apple
>> slices.
>> We also dried two pints of banana slices. I'm going to dry a few other
>> fruits and then we are going to make our own trail mix. The end of
>> October,
>> I am going to get a bushal of Pink Lady apples and we are going to do
>> apple
>> chutney, more apple butter, and maybe some spiced apples as well. Matt
>> is
>> in Seattle visiting his brother and also doing some canning and pickeling
>> with him as well. They tried some apple and green tomato chutney and I'm
>> wondering how that is going to turn out.
>>
>> There is a man who lives behind us who owns a large truck farming
>> business
>> and rents most of the properties he farms. They have one of our fields,
>> growing tomatoes last year and winter squashes this year. He called
>> while I
>> was in the hospital to let me know he had several kinds of greens and
>> turnips he was starting to cut and if we wanted any just to let him know
>> when we wanted to come and get some. I told him as soon as Matt came
>> back
>> home he would probably be there Sunday afternoon. They are really good
>> people. They have kept our long driveway covered with gravel as parcial
>> payment for using one of our fields.
>>
>> Gotta go for now, my own bed looks way more inviting than the hospital
>> bed I
>> was in for the past two nights. I can hear it calling, "nighty night".
>> LOL
>>
>> Susan
>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
>> To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Catching Up
>>
>>
>> > Hi susan,
>> >
>> > Good to hear from you too. That is a good idea to just as peet a
>> > little
>> > at
>> > a time.
>> >
>> > How have you been?
>> >
>> > JODY
>> >
>> >
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