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over winter crops?
On 8/30/2016 9:32 AM, The Cook wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:52:23 -0500, George Shirley wrote: On 8/30/2016 5:33 AM, The Cook wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:39:16 -0400, songbird wrote: George Shirley wrote: ... Wow! That's a lot of jars, I hope they bring them back. Our kids and grands have strict instructions to bring those jars back CLEAN! So far it has worked. We have canning jars that are probably 50 years old but they keep getting filled until the day they break. we have various people looking and giving us jars, but they are often not as nice as the new ones. we've bought two cases so far when we ran out, but that expense will be reimbursed by the person who gets those jars. we try to keep our eyes open for sales too. we're trying to give away the wide-mouth jars and odd sizes to people we don't usually get them back from. so far this season we have had one break on us. this is the first time in all the years we've had one break. figured it might have gotten cracked and we didn't notice it. once in a while we get one given to us that is chipped or cracked and if it is really old we'll keep it for the bottle collection, but not use it for canning, otherwise off to the recycling it goes. i would actually like to keep a lot more for a bottle collection that are unique or the very old and heavy ones. just don't have the space here for them all... so just reuse 'em. figure some people we give them to might keep them for themselves or whatever. ah well... we've also put some in recycling that were not standard small lid sized jars. dunno where they came from. looked like old mayo jars. songbird I am working on getting rid of a bunch of canning jars. Found the perfect way. Our AC man's son is a beekeeper. Gave him a load of jars this summer. Got a quart of honey in return and promise(?) of at least one each year. Glad to get rid of the jars and am looking forward to the honey. You're giving up the trade Susan? I will be 77 the 23rd of September and am slowing down a bit but not giving up yet. How many folks have disappeared from rec.food.preserving over the last 20 years? I've offered to teach the trade to our elder grands but they don't seem interested. Two of them don't even garden, even after all our work to teach them how to preserve their own home grown food. Not giving up, just slowing down after 2 years of medical problems. Hoping I can get a smaller garden going next year. I still have lots of jars, many of them still full of food. (food still good and being used) I looked at my records and about the 3rd year we were here I set out almost 100 tomato plants. I do keep track of what is on the shelves and get rid of anything that is too old. Getting harder to get rid of stuff since older son's wife has a small garden and younger son has his own garden, freezer and canner. BTW I'm only 16 months younger that you. At our ages who quibbles about it! I am very lucky though, over forty micro-strokes, four major strokes, heart attack, coronary bypass, multiple stents in heart arteries, etc. I've had everything but small pox, which my mother had and gave her children immunity. I'm grateful to be able to love on my great grands and one of those is closing on age 17 so I may be able to see a great great grand before I'm gone. My doctors read my chart and sometimes just gasp at all the stuff that has beat up this old body. Sometimes you're just lucky. Miz Anne and I will be married 57 years in December, we've already beaten the record of our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. Thank goodness for modern medicine, of which I take a lot. |
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