It has been quite a while since we’ve done an update on our everyday lives and what’s happening! I know this isn’t a part of summer, but I got my permit in January, and am pretty close to getting all
A Tomato Sauce Recipe {with pictures}
Yay! It’s canning time again 😉 The season of tired feet, stained fingers, sticky floors and oh so yummy food filling up the empty shelves in our basement again! Every year when the ‘firstfruits’ of the garden come on
The Joys and Woes of Canning
This is the sight that met us when we took the lid off of the pressure canner last week…oh no!!! This happens from time to time and it happened twice last week 😛 At least it was only one
Wordless Wednesday: Knives, Chickens, ACTION!
Seven Sisters Treasures #58
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” ~ Aldous Huxley [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Fyey4D5hg[/youtube] Apple Peel Jelly Go on over to Feelin’ Feminine for the recipe for this apple jelly. Toilet paper
Seven Sisters Treasures #49
“Complaining is choosing to believe that I know better than God what is best for me.” “The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along
One Hundred and Seventy-Five Pounds of Strawberries
Last week, my dear sisters (Susannah and Cassia) and all their dear help, were gone at a orchestra camp! And do you know that it was that same week that the strawberries needed picked! Of course! Usually the four of us older girls
Apple Dumplings
We got awarded by caitlyngaddy!! Today (and yesterday) we are making apple dumplings for the whole year. Yesterday we made 79 and we are going to get up to 250!! We make enough for each of us to have
Chicken Butchering Day!!
WARNING!!!! If you get grossed out easily, then I suggest that you do not continue…but if you don’t, then keep reading!… (or skip to the end and read about (and see the pictures of) making applesauce!!) On Saturday, we butchered 35
Grapes! Apples! & other doings!
Okay, I am finally updating the blog=] We are all 99% better from the chicken pox,I hope we NEVER go through it again. Well,after we got all better, the grapes we ordered came in! So we have been making grape juice these