Monday, November 2, 2020

Monday Message

"Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget. Store seeds and have sufficient tools on hand to do the job." (President Ezra Taft Benson)

As the weather is now cooler, I dug out those raspberries that I froze and made eight pints of raspberry jam. So I can check that off my list. I still want to make grape jelly out of grape juice, did you know you could make jelly out of fruit juice? Yes, you can! I chose grape as I like peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches.

Today I went out and planted garlic before the ground freezes.

I have been trying to weave this table runner I have on my loom right now to free up my loom as my sister and I will take a free weaving class online, this will be a skill building thing for sure.

This has not been a quiet week here. The derecho damaged our roof so the roofers were pounding away. 


Missy says she was scared and stayed out of sight till they quit each day...

Gus wasn't as skittish but we all are glad to be done with it and glad to be done before winter sets in.


My husband built bookshelves for my books.



It has been a pretty full week here.

I think we are really liking the quiet. It reminds me of a book we read to our girls when they were little called Too Much Noise. This man kept hearing the leaves on the roof swishing and went to the wise man of the village and asked him what he could do about the noise. The wise man told him to get a cow. Each time he went back the wise man told him to get a different animal. This went on of course with the noise of each animal getting more and more until he finally told the wise man he couldn't take it anymore. The wise man then told him to get rid of the animals one at a time till he was just down to the leaves on the roof going swish swish and he said awwww. That is where we are awwwww.

I still have cornmeal to vacuum seal and tomatoes to dry but I am pushing along.

We voted absentee to be safe. If you haven’t already, don’t forget to vote!

I also made up ten bread mixes that I do in quart jars.


Keep working on your storage and skill building.

Gus says we must all work very hard at being safe....and just in case, he is showing how to wash our paws.

12 comments:

  1. Ooh, raspberry jam! I have frozen raspberries, as well, but with a bum knee I'll have to be content with having them in my oatmeal. I bought several jars of jam from the Amish farmer's market so I still have some good stuff! Mine are sandplum and blackberry.

    Your weaving is just beautiful! I hope you'll show us a picture of the completed work.

    You have a lot of books! Do you keep them after you read them or is that your reading future? My mother in law was an avid reader and we liked the same stuff. She sent me boxes and boxes of books. I have worked my way through much of that stash now. I grouped them all by author/series and I loved reading them one after another in the same series with no waiting! I'm sure gonna miss that!

    Glad your roof is repaired. That noise really upsets the pets. It probably sounds to them like it's all gonna cave in.

    Enjoy your week!

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    1. Yet to reads all cozy. I have how to or instruction books on another shelf I do love books I would get free mostly or library book sales

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  2. loved the story. You are amazing, thanks for sharing your skills with us.

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  3. This website is really nice and I have made this grape jam. Delish. Love your site
    Barb in PA
    https://practicalselfreliance.com/grape-jam/

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  4. I love your tablerunner, dear Becky. Great that you can have an Online lesson for free. Stay save. Nice greetings from Germany. Heike

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    1. Thank you so much I really a beginner. Yes it was offered a month back and thought it would be good for us my sister has woven more then I have so she helps me thru you stay safe too

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  5. Missy & Gus are precious as always. I adore the bookshelves. I love the table runner. I hope this is the last of the repairs for you from the derecho.

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    1. Enough for now the roof cost us the deductible so nobody wins with the wind. Thank you for your comment wait till next Monday I was able to get gus I told him to wait hold that pose and he did it is funny they do bring me joy. Missy is way harder to catch I was going to take her Pic and she wouldn't wait and got her mid jump that sums her up

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  6. WOW CUANTOS LIBROS BECKY. ¿LOS HAS LEIDO A TODOS? ¿SON LIBROS DE COCINA, MANUALIDADES O TEJIDOS? ¿LEES OTRA CLASE DE LIBROS? ME GUSTA LEER, PERO NO TENGO MUCHO TIEMPO, HAY NIÑOS EN CASA Y 3 SON DISCAPACITADOS, ME LLEVAN GRAN PARTE DE MI DIA Y A LA NOCHE CUANDOME ACUESTO, ME DUERME RAPIDO. BENDICIONES DULCE HERMANA.

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  7. those are cozy mistery books i haven't read them yet but got most of them free or at library book sales. cozy mysteries are clean not nasty who done its i do have reference books the ones i showed where i did by color those are sewing then another shelf of knitting books and yet another crochet and weaving and spinning and i have quilting and cookbooks but those are just mysteries i read and pass on i use to pass to my mother in law i will miss doing that and on a sad note my brother passed away last night i think he is visiting with our other two brothers...this year sure has been a rough one.

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