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The First Cates Canned Beans… Ever

Martha and I (With great help from her mom) canned our first beans today. I have to admit it seems a bit odd to call putting things in jars canning but oh well. Using Martha’s mom’s pressure canner and a load of our garden pole beans we successfully canned 8 quarts for future consumption. I [...]

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Cooking with Garden Veg (Early test cooking)

We are now harvesting beans and picked our first okra and one green tomato this week. We already had dinner plans but decided to supplement with some garden veg as a sort of test cooking. Martha prepared the beans using her mothers method and we fried the 2 okra and 1 green tomato. We hope [...]

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July 4th BBQ

Martha and I had over somewhere around 30 of our friends and family over on the fourth for some bbq and fun. We setup the sprinkler in the back yard and I along with a few others smoked two Boston butts overnight for the festivities. Clay Cox gave a snippet of his act before leaving [...]

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1 thing… (x4)

4 things I’m going to do today instead of being on the computer.
1. Weed the garden.
2. Play fetch with my dog.
3. Read. (An actual book)
4. Memorial Day cookout with friends.

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