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WOW!!! It was canned potato salad???

Fruit stuff made into jelly is pretty safe. Sugar is a preservative too. Still have to be careful, tho.
We do freezer jam, so even safer. I think the freezer jam has a better flavor anyway. Less cook time so more of the fruit flavor is saved. Although I prefer canned blackberry jelly. They have a lot of seeds otherwise.
My grandma made delicious freezer jam
 
Popping in before I pop out again. Crazy day...
Strawberries, have more than one use! 🤭 🍓
Is this the grown-up version of Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing? (by Judy Blume)
Eat it or wear it
we had a thing here where someone brought potato salad to a church picnic and gave a whole bunch of people botulism
We had something similar many years ago. Wedding reception. Whomever made the dinner had cooked ahead a huge batch of beef stroganoff using the industrial type kitchen on site. (school cafeteria kitchen maybe?)
They stored the food in the fridge overnight then reheated the next day.
Yeah - they put the big vat in the fridge. So the top and edges cooled but the middle was still piping hot. Everything curdled and spoiled.

lesson: cool in small batches so it cools all the way through
Although I prefer canned blackberry jelly. They have a lot of seeds otherwise.
I didn't live close enough to the grandma that did canning. Is it a PITA to strain berry seeds when making jelly/jam/preserves?
 
Popping in before I pop out again. Crazy day...

Is this the grown-up version of Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing? (by Judy Blume)
Eat it or wear it

We had something similar many years ago. Wedding reception. Whomever made the dinner had cooked ahead a huge batch of beef stroganoff using the industrial type kitchen on site. (school cafeteria kitchen maybe?)
They stored the food in the fridge overnight then reheated the next day.
Yeah - they put the big vat in the fridge. So the top and edges cooled but the middle was still piping hot. Everything curdled and spoiled.

lesson: cool in small batches so it cools all the way through

I didn't live close enough to the grandma that did canning. Is it a PITA to strain berry seeds when making jelly/jam/preserves?
Not too bad. Just have to have a fine meshe strainer and a silicone spatula
 
I’ve had a couple of busy days at work, coupled with a drunken mosh fest with some of my neighbors.

Just checking in here I’ll go back a few pages and try to catch up as much as I can.

Hope everyone had a good end of the week and has a good weekend planned.

We will be rounding and splitting firewood tomorrow. A memorial service for my mom on Sunday.
 
I love blackberries
Me too. We picked almost 10 gallons this year. Only cleaned up 1/4 of what was there. Did 8 gallons by myself the year before.

I have them in smoothies for breakfast (along with apples, carrots, celery, broccoli, etc...). Apples and berries give enough flavor the veggies sort of disappear. It tastes sweeter than it really is. (But don't tell my taste buds that!)
 
Me too. We picked almost 10 gallons this year. Only cleaned up 1/4 of what was there. Did 8 gallons by myself the year before.

I have them in smoothies for breakfast (along with apples, carrots, celery, broccoli, etc...). Apples and berries give enough flavor the veggies sort of disappear. It tastes sweeter than it really is. (But don't tell my taste buds that!)
I swear we need to have a swap.... like I will bring fresh apples you bring a pile of blackberries someone ( lilianna) bakes something wat makes gravy etc... and we share ....wouldn't that be a good idea?

Too bad we all live in different states
 
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Winding down from a long day
tonight, I am not setting an alarm clock
I hope grey is ok.... there was bad storms in Ireland and so i checked and there are also bad winds in Scotland.....
Scotland definitely has a windy season
Hope all is well out on the heather
I am in bed at 8pm.... boy am I cool
I've been a member of that club... as well as the 7pm Friday Club at times.
Psst - all the cool kids hang out there ;)
I’ve had a couple of busy days at work, coupled with a drunken mosh fest with some of my neighbors.

Just checking in here I’ll go back a few pages and try to catch up as much as I can.

Hope everyone had a good end of the week and has a good weekend planned.

We will be rounding and splitting firewood tomorrow. A memorial service for my mom on Sunday.
Hope the memorial is peaceful with punctuations of raucous stories 🫂
I joined at 3:28 AM club this morning… I tried to stay off my phone, but I just couldn’t get back to sleep.

I believe @nipplecaresser requested this photo. It was from Wednesday morning. It was 2° out.

this is my best Bigfoot look. In case ya don’t wanna see, I set it up as a link.

https://ibb.co/3vF0Lsb
Nice! One question... was the Bigfoot Forest Pose deliberate?
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Instead of, say, a standard Catalog Model Pose?
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All kidding aside - nice pic... you have a fantastic... back yard
 
Unfortunately that can happen.

I react to a lot of medications and unfortunately also a lot of other things. That all over body pain is a relatively common, if not near constant thing.

I have a good idea of most, but not all of the triggers. Still a few I'm working on sorting out. Unfortunately I can't get away from them. They're just everywhere in my environment. The only time I didn't feel horrible was when I spent a week on the east coast this fall.

It's a long story, and I'm in an extra grumbly mood due severe pain right now...so glad I can vent here ...
I'm so sorry, DKA! 🫂🫂
 
@Mrswonderer thought wrong!
I don't know if you guys live in a democracy or not but I vote AGAINST this ridiculous motion! No photograph was ever enhanced by including male genitalia. I am all for equality other than this issue, but this is the last straw, or maybe the short straw ;)
I beg to differ with you, sir! I quite like that part of anatomy! 😅😅
 
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