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One Ohio womans efforts to keep it simple, sacred & sustainable & to share those things bound by the common thread of simple, creative living. Here I share my day to day rural lifestyle, my latest creative endeavors, an occasional recipe, my philosophy on life, simple living, the environment and more.
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my first time (using a pressure canner)
Over the years I’ve done quite a lot of canning. However I never owned anything but a regular water bath canner. Years ago I canned everything in a hot water bath. That included green beans and other things now considered unsafe to process that ...
6 things
Granny Sue has tagged me to write six things about myself that others may not know. I'm not that interesting, so this may be tough but here goes...As an animal lover I always thought I'd like to work as a veterinarian's assistant or in some animal ...
my most essential cookware
I don’t know why I felt compelled to post about this, but the other day while puttering around in my kitchen I got to thinking about those items I use most. It was probably when I was putting them away that it occurred to me how often I'm putting ...
My Monday
The beets we pulled last night are cooked, sliced and pickling. I’ll be adding eggs to the jar soon. A variety of veggies are coming on, but not a lot of any one thing just yet. So I cleaned a few snow peas, a few beans, some green onions and z...
weekly round-up & product review
Well, despite my recent posts about cats, turkeys and puffballs, life has been busy here at Keepsake Acres...More raspberries were picked by Coop this week. Some frozen, some made into cobbler and some into jam. I also made my first trial batch of ...
