bigugli

I've got the same wooden craw (2nd pic) sitting in a shadow box beside my Mitchell and old Heddon reels.

That looks awesome Bruce. I just finished my cucumbers last weekend got 30 qrts of dills and bread and butter plus 6 qrts of Chicago style sweet relish. Im just waiting for my tomatoes to ripen and I will begin canning them as well. This is my second year at canning and I really enjoy it. Lots of work and lots of people say Why? I tell them because I like to grow my own food and save it for later. I used to grow my garden and give most of my crop away to the neighbours because I couldn't eat it fast enough and did not want it to spoil. I made salsa last year and was surprised at how much better it is compared to the expensive store bought stuff. Care to share your salsa recipe I would like to try some when my tomatoes are ready. By the way I was in the grocery store last week and a lady was in front of me at the check out. She had a bushel of pickling cukes on a cart brought out from the back. I was curious as to how much she was going to pay. The young lady said that will be 54.00 mam. I said to myself wow that's what I'm talking about grow your own.

$54 a bushel!!!!! Talk about robbery! #1 grade pickling cukes run for $35-40 a bushel at most farmers markets. I do buy in my cukes simply because it is easier for me. Else I would need 200 plants to meet my needs.

As it is, I have a 1/4 acre planted to specialty peppers, tomatoes, tomatillo, squash, berries, dill and garlic.

This week's installment.

The salsa might help keep your colon clean.

 

As usual, I forgot to put gloves on while I was prepping the habaneros and jalapenos. I quickly realized the consequences, later , in the shower.

Right now, just about every ministry in Ontario is on a ticket blitz. Must be trying to find additional funds for the Wynne Wishlist, or the $20 billion transit plan. There have been 4 different provincial agencies blitzing the St Jakobs market this past month.

I use to swing a 15lb maul for years splitting upward of 40 cord a year. On a bad day, and in a bad mood, I could snap 3 wooden handles in a morning. Wife bought me an axe with the "indestructible" fiberglass handle. It lasted a week before the handle started to crack inside the head and the head began to slip

Bruce, next time we get together, reserve one of the small jars of that relish for me would you. Just PM me the price. I make a lot of preserves but that relish looks better than anything I have made.

Don't you worry none. The grocery wagon will be loaded when we gets together.

Usually a 3 hour limit for a one day outing.

I did the long commute Toronto to Beamsville for enough years. Found it was easier to drop the job, than commute. 3 hours of time I could be spending with my kids. Cars falling apart after 3 years of 50,000 km per year. $500 a month in daycare costs chopped. Less stress......

After the move I was earning half the Toronto wage, working 20% fewer hours, but had more left over in the bank at the end of the month.

About 30 years back, 83 I think, we had a similar crap summer. Cold and wet August. Wet snow and freezing rain the 2nd weekend of the month

A man of your quality deserves some fair turnabout for all the good you do in this world.

Sorry to hear. Hope she does well

So far so good. No return signs of cancer at the moment. The second mastectomy just reduces the risk even more by another 30%.

Today's 12 hour canning marathon. Pickles, relish, jam.

Dead Poets Society completely changed the way I looked at Robin.

 

"Oh Captain! My Captain!"

Tonic water will also help with muscle cramping by upping your fluids and the low dose of quinny found in it. Just have to find a way around the bitter taste. OH, that's what the gin is for.

This just plain SUCKS!. I loved his off the wall antics, his rants and his intellectual humour. He was also a very talented actor beyond his comedies.

 

All I can say..... "Oh Captain! My Captain!"......

Every year is a process from June to December. This week we have Dills.

Don't know you Biguli, but shouldn't you be working with that other "pickle" at 1:30 in the morning?

Not as long as the wife is undergoing surgeries and treatments

My uncle's place was just down the old highway in Oyster Pond. Bring a sturdy medium action rod. Beyond that stop at a local shop for what's on this time of year. You need salt water tackle. Wash out your reel often. I've had a lot of fun jigging squid off the Govt dock. Need a specialized jig. Lots of groundfish to be caught inshore. There are also some decent bass lakes in the area.

So much to see and do here in Canada, that would cover more than a couple of lifetimes.

1:30 in the morning and I'm in the kitchen trying to get caught up on my chores.

Only 40 more cases to go.

Averie sure is sprouting like a weed. They grow up far too quickly. Love the family report.

It is a real mess up there. Got to do the drive by coming home from St Jakobs. It's going to be interesting for the commuters over the next few weeks.

 

My brothers claim they're no good at it---they seem to be good at holdin a glass and watchin me tho

On one of our fishing trips, the group set a rule that we all had to clean our own fish. Every year the same 3 guys, self included, wound up cleaning all the fish for 30 people. Needless to say, it was a bad decision . At least myself and the other cook knew which fillets not to eat

Sounds more like Suomen suven. I can recall many an August night needing to fire up the woodstove.

Far too many in the urban environment have no real idea about where their food comes from. Nor is it possible to educate them.

 

Don't worry, the first real crisis modern society has to face and the citiots will be dropping like flies