A Week of Preserving

Canned 12 half pints and 6 pints of dill pickle relish.

 

Froze 16 serving of corn.

 

Still working on tomato sauce.

Surprise Potatoes Plant

I always seem to unknowingly leave one or two potatoes in the garden each year. So in the spring up pops a surprise potato plant or two.  I rotate my crops each year and this very big potato plant was in the way of other crops, so I pulled it.

I was happy to see so many potatoes. I have a hard time keeping reds from going bad. I decided to can these but I didn't want to peel them.  Some are very tiny and I couldn't just throw out the little ones. So I did some web surfing and found a couple of people who can their red potatoes peel on. Step one scrub potatoes until they shine.

I used my dollar store scrub brush and scrubbed until they were shiny. As I scrubbed a very thin skin came off the potatoes. Then I cut the bigger ones into smaller chunks and stuffed into hot quart jars with a teaspoon of salt.

Notice some of the potatoes have a reddish centers. I added boiling water to each jar and put on the warmed lids and rings. Then processed them for 40 minutes at 10 pounds pressure.

Ok all done and the potatoes are all white. Hmm, I didn't expect that. Seven quarts from a surprise potato plant, not bad.

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday

1. Family- This is my family of Indian Runner Ducks.

2.Grass- I use my grass clipping in my garden. It works great as a weed block.

3.Silly-This is Harry my angora bunny. He's a little silly looking.

4 Half- This is my corn at half size.

5. Bow-Meet Franky (short for Franken Feet) her feet curl and bow.

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Our Family Vacation

7 Nights ~7 States

Washington~Idaho~Utah~Arizona~Nevada~California~Oregon

Rest stop Idaho, Blue Mountains.

Utah, Dixie National Forest, Red Canyon

Desert Flowers.

 

Utah, Bryce Canyon

 

                  Utah, Zion National Park

 

St. George, Utah

 

Arizona

  

Pinetop, AZ

 

Plant life at Fort Apache, AZ

 

Structures at Fort Apache (dated 1871-1892)

 

Kinishba Ruins, AZ

 

 

Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

 

Williams, AZ

 

Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

 

Hoover Dam, AZ-NV

 

Las Vegas, NV

 

No pictures from Reno, NV to Washington.

 

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floral friday foto

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New addition to our duck family

 

What's Blooming

The front flower bed.

The side flower bed.



Other flowers

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Make a Wish

I remember when I was a kid, picking one of these, closing my eyes, making a wish and then blowing real hard. If all the seeds blow off your wish would come true. I live in a beautiful area and have a wonderful loving family, my wishes have come true.

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