On 9/2/2015 6:06 PM, Ross@home wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:10:18 -0500, George Shirley >
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/2/2015 11:21 AM, Ross@home wrote:
>>> The sweet and hot peppers as well as the onions in our garden did much
>>> better than expected. The tomatoes also surprised us by ripening
>>> almost simultaneously over the last couple of days. I guess all of
>>> them benefited from the drip irrigation.
>>> Yesterday was harvesting day and today became salsa making day. A
>>> total of 22 - 500ml jars. Last canner load is plinking as I type.
>>> Thank goodness for my faithful old homemade pot stirrer, it saved my
>>> back and arms from a lot of tedious time in front of the stove.
>>> http://tinypic.com/r/e5pyjd/8
>>>
>>> Ross.
>>> Southern Ontario, Canada
>>>
>> I downloaded your pot stirrer plans a few years ago but haven't found
>> the exact parts I need as yet. Guess I should post the parts needed on
>> the HOA website, someone might be getting rid of some of them.
>>
>> That's a LOT of salsa Ross, hope you have plenty of tortillas.
>>
>> George
>
> Hi George,
>
> The wooden parts of the stirrer I fashioned out of sugar maple, the
> BBQ rotisserie motor, spit, and S/S mounting brackets all came in a
> kit I picked up for cheap at Liquidation World, a local liquidation
> outlet. Used to get some great deals there but they were bought out
> quite a few years by Big Lots from the U.S. of A. I guess Big Lots
> didn't find it such a good acquisition because they're long gone too.
> As far as food goes, we don't have all that many tortillas but, there
> are plenty of kids, grandkids and great-grandkids who really love it
> and will make sure it doesn't go to waste.
> We use it on omelets and/or scrambled eggs at breakfast and on our
> baked potatoes along with sour cream and on many other tasty dishes.
> We both really like to cook and partake of the results, especially
> stuff we've produced ourselves. There was a saying that my dad used
> many years ago that went "I'm too old to die young so I'll be danged
> if I'm gonna die hungry". Now that I'm on the brink of 81, I've taken
> over his saying as my own .
>
> Ross.
> Southern Ontario, Canada
>
I'll be 76 this month so you're not far ahead of me. I never even
thought of dying hungry, maybe that's why we like gardening so much. I
miss the old place in Orange, TX where we had ducks, chickens, rabbits,
very large garden, a pond full of fish, pigs, a cow and calf, and lots
of other edibles close by, for free. That area still exists but is now
mostly commuter folk to and from their city jobs and hardly anyone
gardens or has critters.

It's starting to show a bit of fall weather here, temps at sunrise were
in the low seventies F and now that darkness has gotten here the outside
temp is now at 80F. If we could have a bit of rain it would be very
nice. Just got the water bill and it's up six bucks from the last one.
Luckily water is still fairly cheap here. Oh yeah, that $57 bill
includes sewer, recycling, and garbage pick up. Beats hauling stuff to
the dump once a month as in olden times.

George