What a Spartan, just soldiering on in the face of adversity.

Randy, yes, it really did seem to help. I was surprised but pleased.

Right now our Yarrow is starting to bloom and I found a big patch of Camomile yesterday on the back property.

Once established, they do tend to 'grow like a weed'. I can understand some novice pulling up worthy plants under the misconception of their genus. I recall a gardening friend that asked his new wife to help weed the garden + she proceeded to pull up all his tomato plants. I can understand someone confusing corn with Johnson grass, but tomatoes?

Any body "can" butter here? We put up 8 pints yesterday and plan on 16 more next week (a few will be pints of garlic butter). and that should do us for a while. Good thing is just put up in cool and dark. No refrigeration needed.

Just blew piston in truck motor. New motor is 14k. Not happy. Once dust is settled from that I will start canning some Axis meat.

Jerry, do you mean ghee? I do not know of a safe method listed for canning regular butter.

Regular butter. You must use pressure canner, set for same as meat, due to the fat. 75 minutes. I don't trust steam canner for butter.

Interesting.

https://www.foodstoragemoms.co...ot-safe-to-can-home/

Now I know how tempting it is to preserve as much as possible but there are safety issues with some things. Butter is one of them because it is dairy. The link explains some issues. Another very good source for canning and safety is here:

https://nchfp.uga.edu/publicat...blications_usda.html

I am for sure one of those people who feels it is better to be safe than sorry especially when it comes to things like Botulism, etc. So if we do end up with a SHTF I will do without butter.

Back to the title of this posting. Cold?, not hardly ow that we are in triple digits but the hunger part is very easy for anyone to see these days who has been to the grocery stores. I'm appalled at the price increases + everyone else is I'm sure. I an afford it right now but I know that there's a lot of folks that can't. What are they going to eat? You think Roe V/S Wade got folks rioting in the streets; how about no food you can afford? I'm not a radical but I will admit that I + many others would take food rather than see their family starve. Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist but ain't it funny that in the 2 years that bozo has been in office, he has implemented every thing that could bring down this country, from cutting off national independence on fuel to trashing the financial market to now hitting EVERYONE in the bread basket. Those are soviet tactics; starve the enemy. But what do I know: I'm only a history major?

Randy, as a history major then you KNOW it is coming. I did not think I would see it in my life time. Apparently I am.

Gird up thy loins people.

I have lived a good life under America as we knew it. The "powers that be" have their agenda of changing the "American Dream" into the "Socialist nightmare". POR-QUE? I do no advocate revolution primarily because when we had our last civil war, there were no other nations in a position to take advantage of us; not the same now. There are others with "legal rights" to take our nation because others sold it out without our permission. Too much to say but I know it won't make any difference, but as I started this post I will end it just the same,"I have lived a good life; but I am concerned for the future of my grandchildren + their (possible progeny).

Everybody needs to do what they can. We are keeping the freeze dryer running with sweet corn right now. I plan on canning a run of ground Axis meat tomorrow. The dehydrator has apples in it tonight.

My garden harvest is beginning to come in now. Canning green beans today. If I have time will make pickles otherwise they will get done tomorrow. Already have a bunch of cabbage fermented. Onions are ready to pull up and cure, I will dehydrate most of them. I had a real bumper crop of onions this year.

A friend of mine who lives north of here in the stephenville area said that no one up there are getting any tomatoes due to the heat wave; seems they are dropping their blossoms before setting fruit. Beans, cukes, okra, + melons are doing well though. But then they have a more sandy soil. Mine is alkaline which grows great tomatoes but not melons.