Watch out; there’s a canning lid shortage!
My friend, Dara, called me the other day saying she had been in the stores and there were no canning jar lids. I asked her what stores she'd checked in and, as I was...
Q and A: canning dense foods and black cherries
Canning dense foods
I put up many different things for our family. My rule of thumb is always process for the ingredient which has the longest time associated with it, such meat in pasta sauce...
New friends are always welcome
You'd think, living way back here in the woods of northern Minnesota, we'd be isolated from human contact, at least to some extent. Not so. Especially because I write for BHM. A couple of...
Our first flowers are blooming
We were quite surprised to see some beautiful white crocus blooming at the base of our lilac bush, on the edge of the front yard. I'm not sure where they came from, as I...
Had a wonderful Mother’s Day
Did I mention it rained all week? Needless to say, Bill couldn't bring up his tractor-mounted rototiller on Mother's Day as the ground was too wet. I suppose we could have done the garden...