Good Morning, All!
I want to thank everyone who is contributing to this thread - makes me feel much less concerned when I see that others are also stocking up.
Yesterday was combo busy day/lazy day - we did some work, but we also took a little time to play! Hubby left early for his shoot, and daughter said she would bring the boys out mid-morning as she needed to go mow a friends lawn, so I ran in to town and picked up two more roasts, bringing my total to 8 - but then I gave 2 of them to daughter for her freezer I got the other 6 cut up in to chunks; ended up with 2 gallon jars full. I ran one canner load of pints, which took most of one gallon jar. I put the fat and scraps into the crock pot to cook down; don't know what I was thinking - usually I just pack the scraps in to a canning jar and can it along with the beef and consider it to be dog food topping. I guess it will make some broth, and I can lift off the fat, clean it up a bit by adding it to boiling water and letting the solids fall to the bottom as it cools/chills, then freeze it in small containers.
I put 6 more 1/2 gallon bags of peaches in the freezer yesterday while the canner was doing it's thing, then spent the last little bit of canning time rounding up the boys and getting them cleaned up and grabbing a quick shower myself. We headed out to our favorite Italian restaurant and all enjoyed being out around people as much as we did our dinner. I did a quick run through Aldi for some fruit to send home with the boys before we headed home, but wasn't able to get the boys hair cuts as the shop was closed already.
I have a little bit of yard work I want to get done before it gets hot later today - gonna be in the high 80's and low 90's during the week. Lots and lots of the walnuts have dropped from the trees in the side yard, and walking down our road it looks like the acorns are dropping early as well. Early fall/early winter? Or just heat stress?
I'll get the other gallon jar of beef canned in pint jars today; and the chicken should be thawed enough that I can get it in to jars as well - I guess I'll need to pull a jar or two of home canned broth out of the pantry since I forgot to get any at Aldi. I'll thin it down to use to can the chicken; maybe a teeny pinch of Old Bay in each jar as well.
Hubby usually has an IDPA match almost every weekend, and loads his own rounds but has decided that he's going to cut back to 2 matches a month to save on primers, just in case. He's going to see if he can pick up some more shotgun primers tomorrow from a source he used when he shot trap.
Well, I'd better get out there and get that yard work done so I can retreat to the air conditioning to finish up the canning. You folks all take care out there; stay safe!!
I want to thank everyone who is contributing to this thread - makes me feel much less concerned when I see that others are also stocking up.
Yesterday was combo busy day/lazy day - we did some work, but we also took a little time to play! Hubby left early for his shoot, and daughter said she would bring the boys out mid-morning as she needed to go mow a friends lawn, so I ran in to town and picked up two more roasts, bringing my total to 8 - but then I gave 2 of them to daughter for her freezer I got the other 6 cut up in to chunks; ended up with 2 gallon jars full. I ran one canner load of pints, which took most of one gallon jar. I put the fat and scraps into the crock pot to cook down; don't know what I was thinking - usually I just pack the scraps in to a canning jar and can it along with the beef and consider it to be dog food topping. I guess it will make some broth, and I can lift off the fat, clean it up a bit by adding it to boiling water and letting the solids fall to the bottom as it cools/chills, then freeze it in small containers.
I put 6 more 1/2 gallon bags of peaches in the freezer yesterday while the canner was doing it's thing, then spent the last little bit of canning time rounding up the boys and getting them cleaned up and grabbing a quick shower myself. We headed out to our favorite Italian restaurant and all enjoyed being out around people as much as we did our dinner. I did a quick run through Aldi for some fruit to send home with the boys before we headed home, but wasn't able to get the boys hair cuts as the shop was closed already.
I have a little bit of yard work I want to get done before it gets hot later today - gonna be in the high 80's and low 90's during the week. Lots and lots of the walnuts have dropped from the trees in the side yard, and walking down our road it looks like the acorns are dropping early as well. Early fall/early winter? Or just heat stress?
I'll get the other gallon jar of beef canned in pint jars today; and the chicken should be thawed enough that I can get it in to jars as well - I guess I'll need to pull a jar or two of home canned broth out of the pantry since I forgot to get any at Aldi. I'll thin it down to use to can the chicken; maybe a teeny pinch of Old Bay in each jar as well.
Hubby usually has an IDPA match almost every weekend, and loads his own rounds but has decided that he's going to cut back to 2 matches a month to save on primers, just in case. He's going to see if he can pick up some more shotgun primers tomorrow from a source he used when he shot trap.
Well, I'd better get out there and get that yard work done so I can retreat to the air conditioning to finish up the canning. You folks all take care out there; stay safe!!