This year was not as big of a garden year for me. Hardly anyone had any luck with tomatoes this year due to the unusually wet and cool summer. I did however can a couple of quarts of tomato sauce. In addition to that I canned 64 half-pints of tuna (with Ryan's dad so we each got half) and 7 half-pints of plum preserves. I also dried about 2 lbs of carrots and froze several lbs of blackberries.
Wednesday I am getting apples from Grandpa Button and, depending on how many I get I will can apple pie filling and perhaps apple sauce. That will probably be it for this year for the most part. Due to the fall rains starting early the blackberries didn't do much this year either or I would have a bunch more to process.
I have finally become a member of the Facebook Population. I was dragged kicking and screaming into it, I swear! I am so nontechnical but when your own Dad keeps asking you to join, what can you do. Can't let the old man show me up :-P.
My friend Sabrina got me hooked on some of these new freebie sites like Freebies4Moms. That is how I started finding samples (I try not to go crazy and get everything just because, only things that I will use) and coupons and found the offer below. As Ryan and I have recently started a weightloss program, it would be neat to win. I am sure there are going to be millions of people entering though so I won't hold my breath.
Since I last posted here I have started spinning and crocheting. This is in addition to knitting, sewing, making jewelry, etc. I could say I really didn't need another hobby but I won't because I love it so much. And making something from yarn you spun yourself? Awesome. My neighbor and friend Trudie has been such a blessing. She has given me so much wool fiber to spin. It may take months to go through it all. I won't have to worry about getting my own for a while. I thank her in home canned goods and knitting and crochet patterns I get online (she doesn't internet surf).
Almost everyone, for Christmas this year, is getting a hand-knit or chochet hat from my very own fingers :-). Some will also be from my handspun yarn. For those not receiving hats I am making socks or bags. I am also sewing coupon organizers for a few people I know who, like me, love to use coupons. So far I have made 4 Christmas hats and 1 coupon organizer. My Christmas giving list is long so I have a ways to go yet.
More later!
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