We put up two quarts ad five pints of end of season veggies two days
ago. A cold snap moved in so the spring/summer garden was picked. Lots
of peppers, etc. mostly to small to chop and freeze so they were
pickled. Haven't tried any yet but will once the stuff has been in the
jar a few weeks. The stuff does look good so we're hoping it will taste
good. <G>

The fall garden is doing well, lots of cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage,
beets, etc. With the first three ready to start picking and eating. Lots
of various lettuces are ready to start harvesting and we do like our
salads.

If today is decent I will be out in the front pruning the pear tree,
lots of "rain" limbs on there that need to be taken out. Waste not, want
not, the limbs will be cut into short pieces and put into my fruit tree
bucket for later use in smoking meat. I also came upon a cheap sack of
mesquite bits and pieces so will have plenty of good wood for smoking.

It's not to cold this morning but I had a bad time around 0400 when I
went into a very low sugar episode and nearly passed out. A tablespoon
or two of sugar brought me back. Guess I need to see the doc as I've had
two of those in the last month, may need to change my insulin to a lower
load.

Not a lot going on as far as canning nowadays but it won't be long
before we will be picking blackberries and dewberries along the Texas roads.

George

George Shirley wrote:
....
> It's not to cold this morning but I had a bad time around 0400 when I
> went into a very low sugar episode and nearly passed out. A tablespoon
> or two of sugar brought me back. Guess I need to see the doc as I've had
> two of those in the last month, may need to change my insulin to a lower
> load.

glad you're ok! those can be scary to someone
who's not used to them and doesn't know what to
do.


> Not a lot going on as far as canning nowadays but it won't be long
> before we will be picking blackberries and dewberries along the Texas roads.

not much going on here either. making soup
and freezing some. good beef vegetable soup
mostly from things you recognize as food too.


songbird

On 1/7/2017 8:43 AM, songbird wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> ...
>> It's not to cold this morning but I had a bad time around 0400 when I
>> went into a very low sugar episode and nearly passed out. A tablespoon
>> or two of sugar brought me back. Guess I need to see the doc as I've had
>> two of those in the last month, may need to change my insulin to a lower
>> load.
>
> glad you're ok! those can be scary to someone
> who's not used to them and doesn't know what to
> do.
>
>
>> Not a lot going on as far as canning nowadays but it won't be long
>> before we will be picking blackberries and dewberries along the Texas roads.
>
> not much going on here either. making soup
> and freezing some. good beef vegetable soup
> mostly from things you recognize as food too.
>
>
> songbird
>
I've been on insulin since about 1990 and the damned disease still
sneeks up on me. Bad episode the other early morning and I still didn't
recognize what was happening to me (been a long time since I had one)
until I started passing out. Then my old brain said get some sugar dummy.

Sort of runs in my family, mostly with heart problems but the diabetes
seems to be mine, no one else in the family has it. I would just as soon
not have the duty to get it. <BSEG> Even dogs get diabetes, friend of
mine had a poodle the he gave insulin shots to every day. My dog is
always starving to death. Vet put her on a 1/3 cup of dog food every day
and she lost five lbs within a week and now can run and jump again. I'm
afraid my doc is going to do the same thing to me. My doctor is a former
fat man and is now lean and mean. I need a fat doctor.

On 1/7/2017 1:49 PM, George Shirley wrote:
> My dog is
> always starving to death. Vet put her on a 1/3 cup of dog food every day
> and she lost five lbs within a week and now can run and jump again. I'm
> afraid my doc is going to do the same thing to me. My doctor is a former
> fat man and is now lean and mean. I need a fat doctor.


Just don't choose an old one. They retire and leave you to be treated
by their new "associate" who looks 14 and you want to call "Skippie."
And who agrees with Medicare that an annual physical is a
question-and-answer session while he types your answers into a computer.

gloria p

On 1/11/2017 11:16 AM, gloria p wrote:
> On 1/7/2017 1:49 PM, George Shirley wrote:
>> My dog is
>> always starving to death. Vet put her on a 1/3 cup of dog food every day
>> and she lost five lbs within a week and now can run and jump again. I'm
>> afraid my doc is going to do the same thing to me. My doctor is a former
>> fat man and is now lean and mean. I need a fat doctor.
>
>
> Just don't choose an old one. They retire and leave you to be treated
> by their new "associate" who looks 14 and you want to call "Skippie."
> And who agrees with Medicare that an annual physical is a
> question-and-answer session while he types your answers into a computer.
>
> gloria p
>
Our Medicare provider is Kelsey-Seybold, only here in Houston area. They
are top notch and my only complaint is that after your visit you get
deluged with emails, most of which you already know what was said. Miz
Anne went in to see the dermatologist this morning and five emails just
came onto this computer in a string. I was there yesterday and I'm still
getting emails that don't make sense. While I was at the office
yesterday several emails came in wanting me to come in for an annual
physical. I think they need to get their stuff together so will have a
chat with the boss at the clinic after my heart doc puts hands on and
tells me I'm in pretty good shape for an old, bad heart, bad back,
geezer. <G>

Earlier this week we had two days of 21F and today, at 1228, it's 76F.
Weird weather.

George

On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 8:16:12 AM UTC-5, George Shirley wrote:
> We put up two quarts ad five pints of end of season veggies two days
> ago. A cold snap moved in so the spring/summer garden was picked. Lots
> of peppers, etc. mostly to small to chop and freeze so they were
> pickled. Haven't tried any yet but will once the stuff has been in the
> jar a few weeks. The stuff does look good so we're hoping it will taste
> good. <G>
>
> The fall garden is doing well, lots of cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage,
> beets, etc. With the first three ready to start picking and eating. Lots
> of various lettuces are ready to start harvesting and we do like our
> salads.
>
> If today is decent I will be out in the front pruning the pear tree,
> lots of "rain" limbs on there that need to be taken out. Waste not, want
> not, the limbs will be cut into short pieces and put into my fruit tree
> bucket for later use in smoking meat. I also came upon a cheap sack of
> mesquite bits and pieces so will have plenty of good wood for smoking.
>
> It's not to cold this morning but I had a bad time around 0400 when I
> went into a very low sugar episode and nearly passed out. A tablespoon
> or two of sugar brought me back. Guess I need to see the doc as I've had
> two of those in the last month, may need to change my insulin to a lower
> load.
>
> Not a lot going on as far as canning nowadays but it won't be long
> before we will be picking blackberries and dewberries along the Texas roads.
>
> George

Good to see you're still using the board, George.

I found I have five bags of radishes in the fridge. I'm going to clean them well and can them to use as potato substitutes when hubby has potatoes. This diabetes makes you get creative for sure. I'm glad I learned about them, but I keep losing them in the fridge which leads to deep cleaning the fridge way to often. I just hate that.

On 1/12/2017 10:30 AM, Kitty wrote:

>
> Good to see you're still using the board, George.
>
> I found I have five bags of radishes in the fridge. I'm going to clean them well and can them to use as potato substitutes when hubby has potatoes. This diabetes makes you get creative for sure. I'm glad I learned about them, but I keep losing them in the fridge which leads to deep cleaning the fridge way to often. I just hate that.
>
I've been on rec.food.preserving for about 20 years or more. Hardly ever
get a reply when I post, so it's good to know someone else is still
putting food by for hard times.

Seems that these boards are slowly going to disappear on us. My kids and
grown grands just have salad gardens, all to busy to grow stuff and then
preserve it, even though they have been trained properly. <G>

I will turn 78 in September and I'm not sure how much longer I can keep
on canning but it will be to the last day I'm sure.

I still remember the original "boards" on line when I was running an
Osbourne One back in the early eighties. Also watched them slowly
disappear. I don't remember how many computers I have run through since
then, the all Osbourne is still operating as the young lady I gave it to
eons ago is all grown up and her children are playing with it now plus
they probably all have phones that are smarter than the Osbourne.

I eat potatoes frequently but I also shoot 45 units of Lantus every day
at noon. Mostly keeps me standing up still. My stomach and thighs look
like a junkies skin.

On Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:31:00 UTC-5, George Shirley wrote:
> On 1/12/2017 10:30 AM, Kitty wrote:
>
> >
> > Good to see you're still using the board, George.
> >
> > I found I have five bags of radishes in the fridge. I'm going to clean them well and can them to use as potato substitutes when hubby has potatoes. This diabetes makes you get creative for sure. I'm glad I learned about them, but I keep losing them in the fridge which leads to deep cleaning the fridge way to often. I just hate that.
> >
> I've been on rec.food.preserving for about 20 years or more. Hardly ever
> get a reply when I post, so it's good to know someone else is still
> putting food by for hard times.
>
> Seems that these boards are slowly going to disappear on us. My kids and
> grown grands just have salad gardens, all to busy to grow stuff and then
> preserve it, even though they have been trained properly. <G>
>

There are a couple generations now taking up canning -- it is big again, George. There are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people in canning groups on Facebook. That's their medium of choice. I know you are 'agin' Facebook and I'm not saying that's good or bad, that's your choice for you, but, I can say, canning is indeed a going concern these days, for sure. I can relate to both these older style mailing lists and the new social media, so I follow both.

We had a bumper crop of rhubarb last year, so I exuberantly canned about 3 dozen pint jars of it. I canned it completely plain, with no sugar, for max flexibility when using it. I'm glad I did because now that it's January, I'm realizing the next crop of rhubarb isn't that far away, so I need to get cracking with more ideas of how to free up those jars. The challenge is that I always try to do things as weight watcher friendly as possible, so that requires a bit more thinking beyond just making an oatmeal crumble to sprinkle on it all the time. The few weight watcher friendly pie crust recipes I've tried so far to use up all the home canned fruit with, you needed a chisel and hammer to crack into the pies so they have gone over like a lead balloon.

Have found a recipe for carrot pie made from home-canned carrots. Hope to try it in a little while.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:01:01 -0800 (PST), Randal Oulton
> wrote:

> I'm glad I did because now that it's January, I=
> 'm realizing the next crop of rhubarb isn't that far away, so I need to get=
> cracking with more ideas of how to free up those jars.

Unsweetened rhubarb is great in meat dishes.

You can also use it almost anywhere you'd use lemon.

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