A Homegrown Family: A Year's Supply...or just about....

Friday, June 5, 2009

A Year's Supply...or just about....

This week Ash and I are home alone the boys are at scout camp. Such fun for them Yguy hasn't taken a bath all week hubby says. But he has swam everyday in the lake. He got high score at archery till the last group the shot came up and a boy got 5 points ahead of him. But still that is very good!

We have been busy all week but today we went to a U-pick farm and had a blast. We fill 5 gallon buckets with hot peppers, sweet peppers, roma tomatoes. I am hoping the peppers will be our year supply but since hubby loves jalopeno peppers and banana peppers we will see. We picked about 55 lbs of produce and we have started canning the jalopenos as soon as we got home. Here are some pictures. Yes the 1st is a waterbath canner FULL of chopped peppers.

Heres just a portion of the fields this is where we picked the tomatoes.

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MomzooJune 6, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I hope you know how lucky you are to be in a climate that already had fresh peppers! We are still a good 6-8 weeks away from stuff like that!
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

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Friday, June 5, 2009

A Year's Supply...or just about....

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