Thursday, October 16, 2025

Too funny

 So, it seems Collette posted 3 of her blogs on this MY older blog

I could not figure out why she had not posted in a few days

And she couldn't figure out why people couldn't see her posts from the last few days

She finally figured it out and copied them over to her blog

She made two of them drafts but one she left active so that's why you're reading about her canning... don't be confused it's not me canning that would be crazy haha

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

More Food Prep!

 Today started with an early morning
(ok, 9:00, but that FEELS early)
RS Activity Committee meeting
in Hays.
(She brought fresh doughnuts though... yum!)

Anyhow.

We had a really good meeting,
and our committee planned for what they are
calling "Snacksgiving".
They are setting up a fire-pit in the 
parking lot and doing hot dogs and s'mores.
(And other stuff...)
It sounds like fun!

Then I headed home and got to work on
the spaghetti sauce.


It was MESSY!


I ended up with two of these big pots of spaghetti sauce.

I pressure canned 8 pint jars of sauce with ground beef,
onions, peppers and mushrooms.

I still have another pot, so I'm going to waterbath another
8 pints without the beef.

I just finished teaching.
So I'm going to quick and get those in the jars and
into the Nesco Electric Canner.
(Instead of steam canning... they are already
out on the counter...)

Anyhow.

It was a busy and productive day!
(Oh, I also chopped and froze two quart
bags of colored peppers... now that the
summer is over, the peppers are producing
like crazy. Of course.....)