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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

YES!  Just spent the day chopping tomatoes for salsa verde.  I chopped up 
about 40 cups.  Then did a bunch to make taco sauce.  Time consuming and 
gets ya between the shoulder blades!  Onions tomorrow and then peppers on 
Tuesday.  Wednesday will be devoted to making a few dozen jars and they'll 
look so pretty sitting there on the counter waiting to be put in the 
cupboard.  And they sure do taste good during the middle of winter.  Store 
bought, yuke!

I was tickled pink last week when a lady decided that she didn't need two 
pressure canners and gave me the 22 qt. Mirro she had.  Yippee!  Christmas 
in October!  Diamonds?  NOT!  They can keep them!!!

Lynda
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


I can tell you, and I know I am in good company
onthis list, that I get more satisfaction out of two days of
backbreaking labor in the kitchen processing a deer than I could EVER
get from working two days as a chemist(in a nice lab with a nice
paycheck).  I enjoy providing for myself.  It may me take me a bit
longer, but I can still do it.

Bev

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> They are likewise indoctrinated to believe that any sort of this work done
> directly for themselves is odius, tedious, stoop and backbreaking, beneath 
> them,
> and at the same time beyond their means and capacity.
>
> Make no mistake, though.  It IS work.  It is NOT for the Homo Sapien 
> Modernus
> who deems himself evolved beyond physical exertion, or else deteriorated
> beyond it.  It is for those who thrill and revel in pitting themselves 
> against the
> challenge of not only survival but thriving.
>
> And as Bev has outlined, you don't just watlz onto a homestead one day and
> take up animal husbandry.  There are more ways to fail in every instance 
> than
> you have fingers and toes.
>
> But can it be done?  Yes, many of us are doing it.  Many more people 
> around
> the world are doing it, and we stand on the shoulders of countless 
> hundreds of
> millions who have done it.
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“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
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