Holy cow, winter came with a bang again this year
Winter actually came about three weeks earlier than usual this year! (Yeah, sure, we were ready … Uh huh.) Where our "normal" high temperature is 50° F, we've been very lucky to see 30,...
Q and A: canning spaghetti and storing water
Canning spaghetti sauce
We like to use Prego and Ragu sauces and add meat for our pasta meals. Can we pressure can the store bought/meat added sauces? If so, what times and pressures would we...
Q and A: dehydrated oatmeal, canning sweet chili sauce, canning spaghetti sauce, and Sweet...
Dehydrated oatmeal
I recently saw an ad for dehydrated oatmeal. Is oatmeal that I purchase from the grocery requiring a dehydration process to long-term store them? I had vacuum sealed some but left others in...
The last campfire of the year was for burning my cast iron pans
We love sitting around the campfire at night. There's just something comforting about those flickering flames and the smell of pine smoke. Maybe it's the Native in us? But this time, I had more...
Boy, was it cold last night
We had less than 26 degrees F early this morning. Luckily, we'd been keeping a close eye on the weather forecast and were prepared. Will lit the heaters in both hoop houses, where our...