Coffee anyone ?

[Bruce]

Yesterday morning the house was 80*F in the morning. Cooler last night and it went down to 69°F
Had hot coffee with my breakfast, put second cup in the refrigerator, drank that about an hour ago. Currently over 90° outside, I'm not out there! I did water the garden this morning about 7 AM before it got hot. Will have to go back out to get part of dinner though. Some broccoli is ready and some snow peas. While I was watering and weeding I noticed some of the sugar snaps are ready as well. Time to OD on fresh garden veg.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on my garden needs desperate attention... but not sure when I will get to it. But today is the last day of fair.

 

[RollingAcres]

@Soon2Be now yours is cute. Some of the ones I "googled" are not good looking.

Some broccoli is ready and some snow peas. While I was watering and weeding I noticed some of the sugar snaps are ready as well. Time to OD on fresh garden veg.

We have been OD on lettuce. Still more out there.

 

[Soon2Be]

@Soon2Be now yours is cute. Some of the ones I "googled" are not good looking.



We have been OD on lettuce. Still more out there.

Yeah. I've seen those with excessive caruncles. Most of those are bred for show and are not the norm for backyard flocks.
Thanks, I like mine. They are not done growing yet. My drake has lots more caruncles than the girls. My muscovies are 4 months old.

 

[Mini Horses]

Time to OD on fresh garden veg

LUCKY YOU!! I'm not experiencing this...sadly.

Coffee is on my garden needs desperate attention... but not sure when I will get to it

Yeah, I'm drinking 2nd cup and wondering if my garden is even salvageable. You know -- too much rain, too much heat and I had too many long work days to get out there!

Will look and decide if I can salvage anything, plant wise My bad as I didn't mulch, etc. Plus this was once part of a pasture and trust me, it still looks like it!! GRASS!!!! Well rooted grass. Thick grass. Till, set & die, till, set & die, type grass. Hopefully, I can do that dance and come up with some Fall things, at least.
Tonight is the veg auction a few miles away. I plan to go & see what's there. May just buy some things, can, and hope for more garden results later. We did get a couple random showers yesterday, maybe 1/2" in total. Softened the crust, about it. But Fri night into Sat "they" say rain is coming!! My 4 days off ends today but, off again Sunday...….then back to it 7 days in a row.

Gonna love the coffee and see what today brings. I have gotten things done that had been put off, so feel pretty good about that -- Sure have a tan now

 

[Mini Horses]

Gonna love the coffee and see what today brings

SO --- since I have this LAST day looming and want to garden, can, etc. I had found my old canner and knew it needed a new gasket. Then, couldn't find the jiggie thing.

I have been considering a new canner -- especially since a while back Baymule talked about her All American buy and I found that NOW you can buy double stackers!! NO, I didn't know. Went to their site to look and saw prices. At that point I was on a "mission" to find one, for way less. I had searched "pressure canners" last night on CL. There were about a dozen listed, two were All Americans. One 2-tier @185 -- good deal at 1/2 price. Another, 1-tier, was $25 and the explanation when opened was "never used". Sounds like my name is on that!!

Looked at pictures and the label reads All American No.7.
Hmmm...website only shows 9XX series....?? definitely old. This AM I called CS at All Amer. Yep, a NO 7 is same as a 915 or 925, I am told. Well at $260 each for the 915 + the number 7 will be mine. Call seller, arrange to go there and I have it looking at me now. A couple minor features are changed now from then but, nothing major.

It's got a booklet that list part prices and this tells you the age of this "new" unit -- the steam gauge was $2.50 then, it's $16.99 now. Of course, the instruction book was only 35 CENTS! Whole lot of instruction for canning with tin cans and not so much with jars but, some of the reading it is a little amusing. More recipes for cooking than for actual "canning".....so now I will buy a new canning book. Even that expense keeps price unreal.
The double pan set were still wrapped as new, you can see the slight discoloring of the paper on the creases. I can find no dates on booklet or pan. While I believe it MAY have been used, wasn't much! Will test out Sunday. Of course, I don't know with WHAT! May have to butcher those roos.

THAT is my late day update -- had to share as my kids don't care or want to hear it. But you all can understand and appreciate a good buy.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Woo Hoo! What a deal - you do seem to find 'em!

 

[Bruce]

But you all can understand and appreciate a good buy.

You bet we do!

 

[promiseacres]

@Mini Horses Make sure the gasket is in good condition, but congratulations on the deal!

Coffee is on. FYI looked at a property last night.. needs a ton of work (like house gutted) but great location, good bones on house... we are friends with closest neighbors, 20 acres, 2 decent barns, 1 garage.... open fields and pastures....

 

[RollingAcres]

No coffee yet. Sitting in the waiting room right now. DH is having surgery to his ankle. He's being prep, so we're waiting for now then my son and I will go find some coffee and breakfast while DH is in surgery.