Coffee anyone ?

[frustratedearthmother]

Whew! Sounds like a long, but productive day. Rest!

 

[Latestarter]

Gosh... there's nothing quite as good as home grown/made spaghetti sauce I used to be able to stand at the counter peeling and de-seeding tomatoes to make sauce that was then frozen. My back just can't take that strain anymore. By the time I got done I'd be a cripple. I like smaller chunks of tomato in the sauce vice just "soup" sauce. I'd love to have a garden but it's just so much work to be successful... Maybe next year I'll build a couple of small raised beds and plant a small quantity of stuff for me...

Glad you got at least a little sauce for your efforts and time.

 

[Baymule]

I got out my 3 big pots and dumped frozen tomatoes in them and started cooking them low and slow.

After they thawed and simmered, I put them through my old strainer, taking out the seeds and skin. @Latestarter I like chunks too, but since I had already quartered and frozen the tomatoes, I just made sauce. I did chunk the onion and mushrooms, I like to see the chunks versus tiny minced mush. LOL

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Daughter called me a little while ago..she's worried too, but she's over somewhere around Booneville NC. She's on hilly land so she'll be fine. It's been a lot of years since she was young and we rode out hurricane Andrew in Nueva Iberia La..in a mobile home.

She is my neighbor! Depending where at she is only 10-20 mins from me. I'm in East Bend off 67.

We flood like crazy! And the ground saturation plus whatever rain means tons of trees down everywhere. Last year we had two Tornados...... It's been way too wet for us this year..... Around here roads get washed out. We are along the base of the mountains and the yadkin river flood soooooo bad. Lots of low laying places. Rain goes down hill so the crests along the roads are fine, then you hit the bottom of whatever hill and it's washed out.we have no tree coverage to protect from whatever winds, soybean field on three sides and neighbors across.... There is one tree in the duck lot that is up against the back of the goat barn.... It leans and we worry about it going down.... That's why the Hubbs is finishing up the horse stall. It's built big enough to house her and the three goats....
Seems like the new predictions have us faring a bit better, but nothing is ever a certainty with hurricanes...... Still moving all the outside critters into temporary cages/pens inside the big sturdy bldg. It will be warmer and 100% dry in there. Don't know where it hitting tomorrow came from.... Still anticipated for Friday sometime.... Oh well.... You can only do so much.

@Baymule your sauce and maters looked good! I like the chunks too but hey, you do what you can with what you've got right?

Thank you all again for being supportive and encouraging with the whole dog situation. I really value everyone's help and opinions/suggestions!


Goodnight all, got a full day tomorrow.

 

[RollingAcres]

@Baymule your sauce looks good. I don't have one of those strainers like your. I normally put my maters in the food processor and chop them up into smaller chunks, not too small.

@Latestarter I prefer my sauce to be slightly chucky(small chunks) as well but even if it's "soupy" sauce I'd still take it. I never turn down sauce

@MatthewsHomestead do what you can and stay safe.

@Mini Horses will you be affected much by Flo? Stay safe as well!

 

[Mini Horses]

Maybe next year I'll build a couple of small raised beds and plant a small quantity of stuff for me...

MANY things can be grown in containers. Consider that & even straw bales. Both does help with weeding, as you can imagine. I have a utube thing that shows how to make the "self watering" containers sold. With your heat issues, these may help. I'll find the URL & post. Yeah, older we get, harder things are.

Seems like the new predictions have us faring a bit better, but nothing is ever a certainty with hurricanes...... Still moving all the outside critters into temporary cages/pens inside the big sturdy bldg. It will be warmer and 100% dry in there.

Too much rain can be as bad as the wind sometimes! For all the reasons you say. And yes, nothing certain....those rascal whip around and bite you in the butt.

@Baymule your sauce and maters looked good! I like the chunks too but hey, you do what you can with what you've got right?

Great job! You could have saved a few pieces to become chunks and added to the sauce . Of course, you can throw a few in when using it to serve up.

@Mini Horses will you be affected much by Flo? Stay safe as well!

At this point, it appears not a great deal. Heavy rains, tropical winds it seems. Will possibly get hit with the turn around rains a few days later

Coffee is on and I'm indulging. Rain in area...thanks Flo...but not at my house right now. It's a matter of "soon" judging from those black clouds. Expect afternoon to be wet. They harvested the field of corn next to me by headlight yesterday. Farmers trying to salvage all they can and I sure don't blame them! If it gets wet & down, they lose it.

All the animals were on alert yesterday. The atmospheric pressure changes let them know something is coming, way before we may notice it. Several hens have decided that the hay stacked & hay in the feeder at goat shelter is THE BEST nest they have ever seen I don't mind except you sometimes have to hunt. Found them easily as goats were in other pastures for the day last couple days. Won't be that way when several days of rain settle in.

Everyone stay safe as you can. We are all probably WAY better prepared than the "city folk" .

 

[RollingAcres]

Everyone stay safe as you can. We are all probably WAY better prepared than the "city folk" .

I think so too!

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Yeah. We are both on "the wrong side" of the storm.... Meaning we are on the side that has the winds pushing against the flow of rivers.... This backs them up and the rainfall can't drain properly so lots of flooding anticipated. That's the biggest concern ATM.......

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

You stay safe too Mini!!!!

 

[RollingAcres]

I have some questions for y'all. Does anyone use essential oil? Do you know how to make them?

Every year I have lots and lots of mint growing. I'd harvest some for tea and use in the chicken coop but would like to find more ways to use them and to preserve them.