Causualty of Canning

The sweet potatoes are officially done... 30 quarts, would have been 31 but as you can see one just didn't want to make it.... So it gave up the ghost! 56 jars done for this year so far. And only 1 broken.... The odds aren't to bad. I just hate seeing all that food wasted. I don't think I will end up with as many jars next year.... As I will be able to use my chopper to make the pieces smaller.... Couldn't use it this year because it made way to much noise and Grim is sleeping during the day. 

I will however be using for the white potatoes that still need to be done. I have 1 bag for baking that will stay in the basement and the other I need to finish canning.... The problem is that they are great potatoes and I am such a potato eater in the fall..... that the bag is starting to dwindle.... Guess we'll have to go and get another big bag.

I still haven't started on the sauerkraut.... Time just hasn't been on my side. I did manage to get my crook and cutter out of the basement.... I need to get them cleaned and as long as all monsters go to school I will start in the morning. Honestly, I think I had better finish.....

This weekend is turning out to be more active then I normally like. Saturday starts off with me taking Band monster to practice, home to get Mouthy, off to get the chicken an hour away, hope to be home by 2 as I have a hair repair / tame the unruly locks, back home by 4:30-5 to possibly see lawyer to sign papers, then to church (long story for another time), pickup Band monster from school after competition, finally get home to fall into bed around 11. Sunday really is no better.............. When can I sleep in?!?

I really shouldn't complain to much Band is done and over with the first weekend in November and I get a whole month off before Varsity Bowling starts. I should take a picture of my calendar ...October is so full I can't write another thing and November barely has anything.

Yart

Another Busy Weekend

Here are some of the sweet potatoes that I was able to can up. I would have gotten a ton more done this weekend...... BUT!

You know how much I hate BUT..... 

Well, let me tell you how my weekend went.

I took Band monster to practice Saturday morning. I got home and thought I needed to spend some time on the computer before we had to go to bowling.... Not a bad plan, huh?

I'm at the computer for about 10 minutes when I hear a car door slam.... I think nothing of it as my neighbors are out of town and have a friend checking on the house. Then I'm scared out of my chair by..... BANG, BANG, BANG on the front door.

I get up and go to the door and when I open it my first words are what did they call on me for now? The ordinance officer is on my porch.... This is a man that I have dealt with several times over the last few years.... So from my greeting he says I'm sorry I have to bother you, BUT.... here it is again.... BUT I need to give you this warning about your trailer.... It has to be moved. It hangs over the sidewalk and even though you were smart enough to paint it a bright yellow so everyone can see it.... Someone riding a bicycle in the wee hours of the morning almost hit it and then called me. So I said jokingly, if they almost hit then they know its there now and they can avoid it.... LOL! He laughed! After about a half hours talking he left with my word that the trailer would be moved.

With my warning in hand.... I called my brother to help get the thing out of here and over to my mom's!

We didn't get it moved until Sunday but it is now safe and secure and not hanging on the sidewalk.... 

Needless to say I didn't get what I wanted to get done this weekend because I had to deal with that.... Sooooooo, tonight we will be making sauerkraut! Over the summer I found a large cabbage shredder at a yard sale for $10.... I can't wait to use it.... I have in the past used my mandolin, though I didn't really like the size of the cut cabbage, I made it work. I need to get it and the crook up here so I can scrub them both down... Don't want any bad bacteria forming.... That would just be gross!

Well, I'm off to find something to do.... like that should hard..... LOL!

Hugs,

Yart

Sunday Night

Ok, I wasn't going to post tonight as I am just plain tired out. I worked at the Legion all day. I left here at 10 am to get home at 6 pm. Long day that wasn't that forfilling. We didn't get the crowd we were hoping for. So that really sucked the energy right out of me. But I was smart enough to put a roast in the crock pot before I left this morning. So when I got home dinner was already to go on the table.
After dinner I figured that I would just veg on the computer and read my mail and bugger off. Well, the laundry started nagging me. So off I went to get that done as I don't know if I will have time to do it tomorrow. I got 3 loads done and hung. Woo Hoo!
Then back to the computer I came. Looking at some of the survival sites and homesteading sites there was a common theme. The end of life as we know it is just around the corner. And I suddenly feel like the grasshopper and not the ant. I want to be the ant. I know that sounds funny I have been working towards this goal but when I read things like that I get all paniky and want to jump into high gear even though I can't.... for a number of reasons..... which all will seem really stupid when the SHTF. So I sat here and found some really good informational web sites. I will make another post later with those. To help me regain some type of footing. My family will be fine I know this deep down. It's just with all of the talk and happenings with the economy it bothers me. But that is what keeps me motivated to become the ant.
One of the things I have to do tomorrow is get a gift card so that I can finally order my pressure canner. I have only been trying to get one for 8 months. I know should have had one years ago. But I digress. I have already made a list of what I want to make to put up on the shelves.

Chicken barley soup
Chicken soup (carrots, onion, celery)
Beef soup (carrots, onion, celery)
Beef and Veg soup
Beed and barley soup
Bean and Ham soup
Turkey soup (carrots, onion, celery)
Beef broth
Chicken broth
Turkey broth
BBQ Pork
BBQ Chicken
Chili
Spaghetti sauce
Beans plain
Pork and Beans
Bush's type of beans
Meat

I can't wait.... I don't even know what I will make first.... LOL! Maybe the turkey broth and soup. I have the bones in the freezer from the Christmas bird. I want to try and get most of my large freezer canned. That way if we were to have a power outage or something else happen I won't loose all of that food.
Well, I think I have rambled enough for tonight. I have to get up early in the morning.
Huggles
Yart