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We mostly use the deep freezer for meat, most of our produce gets eaten fresh, dehydrated, or canned. We do freeze sweet corn in quantity. Not a big fan of frozen green beans, carrots, or asparagus, or freezer jams. I do freeze hot banana peppers whole and sliver them for fried eggs and...

Today I finally got a chance to get some gardening done. Planted my tomato and pepper seedlings, piled some more sticks into the hugelkulture experiment, and also planted some flower sprouts. Mom worked in the flower bed we made last fall, digging out dandelions and bits of bindweed that we...

Work is still crazy...I ended up putting my notice in. An extended notice, because I don't want to lose my health insurance until I find something else, but my days at the grocery store are numbered and it is a relief. Last night I hit my elbow on the corner of a slicer so hard I was worried I...

In the past two weeks I have seen so many garden patches tilled up in people's yards on my drive to work....places where there's been no signs of life for years, except that the grass gets mowed.

We got your snow over in Springfield, ducks...woke up to big fat beautiful snowflakes this morning that lasted until noon. It melted almost as fast as it was coming down, but we had some gradual accumulation! Of course it's all gone now, but I enjoyed being able to take a long walk in the snow...

The first year I grew the honeoye it was very very wet, and the berries were rotting literally the same day they ripened. I just pinched them all off and let them grow, figuring I would try it again next year. The next year I had the opposite problem, it was a very dry...and my berries were...

My favorite strawberry to grow is also the ozarks, I like the flavor of the berries and they ripen well for me without rotting at the same time. I tried honeoye for a couple of years, but didn't like the flavor, it tasted washed out. They are also very determined plants. I still have a couple...

That's one of those lessons I learned the hard way...we have always used the old milk jug method when we have to set out tender plants early!

I will make sure to get some vaseline when I go out this afternoon...my hands are so tender and raw I want to cry. In garden related things, I am hardening off my tomatoes and I went out and weeded the asparagus bed a few days ago. I am still pulling ridiculously long hours at work with no...

It's supposed to be good for chapped hands, and mine are covered in chemical burns from all the sanitizer at work. I figure it is worth a try

Right now chicken is one of the few things piling up in the grocery warehouses locally. They have dropped the prices and put it on lots of sales to move it before it expires. I rarely buy raw chicken from the store I work at because I know how hot the display cases get while they defrost. I...

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Instead of taking it easy today like I planned, it was too pretty to stay inside and walking the dog turned into spending half the morning outdoors. I planted my rhubarb crown, pulled a few weeds, picked some purple deadnettle/ground ivy to turn into hand cream, and turned my compost pile for...

I actually got home in time yesterday to pull a few weeds before dark...spent this morning quilting before I got called in to work again. I am going to be stuck inside doing quiet work for the next few days...waiting on an ear to heal up so I'm not so dizzy.

The last few weeks have made me really question staying in the grocery business...I have only worked in it a few years, but the past few weeks are like nothing I have ever seen before. Being caught between a company looking to make more money from the crisis and scared belligerent customers has...

Had the busiest day at work we have had since the shelter in place started, but there are confirmed cases of covid19 in the county now. Sent the fifth employee home in our area of the store with flu like systems, the average time before release to work is five days. In the last three weeks I...

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I managed to get out and and look at my garden today, which is more than I've done in the past three weeks...I will be so glad when my work schedule goes back to normal and I have free time again.

I'm not ready for it...yet. The garden we had when I was a child could have produced most of our vegetable needs across the year, but it would have needed much more intensive management than we ever bothered with. There's still space here for a garden that size, but I would have to reclaim it...

Thanks for all the well wishes! I have no say in the cart sanitizing, that is nowhere near my realm of responsibilities, we are just doing the best we can with what we have. Henless, I couldn't even imagine working at a Wal-mart atm...I just work at a tiny county grocery store. Your daughter...