My surgery was cancelled again; my cold came back

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I was unbelievably depressed Saturday when I started coughing. It felt just like when I had my two-week-long cold that got my gallbladder surgery postponed. Oh no, couldn't be! Oh yeah? Well, I coughed...

With spring finally here, we are keeping pretty busy

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With Old Yeller up and running, Will made ditches with the tractor and breaking plow then cleaned them up with the dozer. (I won't mention that he threw a track yesterday, and he waded...

Q and A: Home-canned tuna, market baskets, and lima beans

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Home-canned tuna I love the idea of canning fresh tuna. But I want tuna for tuna salad. Would home canned tuna need to be heated to boiling for 15 minutes before eating. And wouldn't that...

Q and A: learning to make cheese, dandelion syrup, and starting seeds in peat...

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Learning to make cheese I would really like to try a cheese making class. One where you spend the whole day or weekend actually making the cheese, not just watching someone do it. I live...

Still raining but I just made the best salsa

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A good friend of mine in Wyoming had gotten some sundried tomatoes from a market, from Turkey. She asked me if I thought the seeds would grow. I didn't know for sure, but she...