FarmerJ | November 20, 2008
I had great intentions of writing this entry last night, but to be completely honest, I just didn’t have anything left in me after the day I had in the kitchen yesterday. You know I’m up to my Adam’s Apple in apples and on a mission to get them all processed before they spoil. My [...]
FarmerJ | November 19, 2008
In addition to the Apple Pies, I figure another thing I can make which utilizes a lot of apples is Apple Butter. I haven’t had Apple Butter in ages and until today, I’d almost forgotten how much I like it. I’ve decided to use a crockpot recipe to make our Apple Butter. I know the [...]
FarmerJ | November 18, 2008
To say that we have been blessed with a gift of 137 lbs of homegrown organic apples is quite an understatement! Praise the Lord and thank you SSG U! With apples priced on sale for $.98 per lb this week, you can imagine my elation. We have Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and I believe the [...]
FarmerJ | November 16, 2008
The date is May 15, 2008. The time is, oh, 7:00 p.m.-ish. Darling Husbie and I are in our empty garden plot trying to stick a few seeds into the ground before leaving for twelve days. I was a little less than enthused about planting seeds at that particular moment ~ I still had ten [...]
FarmerJ | November 14, 2008
Yesterday afternoon, the girls (Abigail the Toy Fox Terrorist and Peanut the Beagle/Shepherd) and I were outside on the front patio ‘cleaning’ the popcorn harvested from our garden. Off in the distance ~ we live approximately three miles from the local municipal airport ~ because the cloud coverage was just right, I could hear an [...]
FarmerJ | November 5, 2008
Sometimes It’s Best To Let Go and Begin Again “Things happen in our lives that we find hard to accept. Thoughts come back to trouble us time and time again. When something happens in our lives that we find difficult to accept, we must decide if there is anything we can do to change things. [...]
