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Rob; Sounds like you are really cookin'  :-)  ..........................

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--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:


> I took my stitches out today from the goat incident. The
> doctor I had
> at the ER was really cool. I say him and his wife at the
> Mart
> yesterday. They were going to cook the goat shoulder last
> night and
> seemed real excited to have some healthy meat. He looked at
> my cut and
> said that it looked ready for the stitches to come out.
> Told him it
> felt like that to me and I was going to do it myself. He
> said he
> agreed. It's a waste of time and money to have a Dr do
> it. I like this
> doctors attitude!
> 
> I found that the strawberry jam I made last year has gone
> bad. I
> didn't seal the jars, just put wax on the top. Some of
> them, it looked
> like the wax had separated a bit from the edge of the jar.
> Others did
> not. I bought low sugar pectin by mistake for that jam.
> Maybe that was
> it. It's not really bad, just funky looking.
> 
> Anyway, I've been adding jam to the hog bucket this
> week. They sure like that.
> 
> I had some blackberries tucked away in the freezer and used
> them to
> make more jam. I reused some canning lids to seal this
> batch. They
> sealed just fine. Monday I got the goat meat off the bone,
> cut into
> chunks, cut the fat off and canned it. Used new lids for
> that. It
> looks good, I raw packed it. Next time, I'll add just a
> little water
> to the jar, as the liquid is low. It was a smallish wether,
> got 7 jars
> of meat, plus the shoulder for Doc, the ribs and some back
> meat to
> eat. I left a good amount of meat on the bones, cut them up
> and have 4
> bags of meaty soup bones.
> 
> Rob - Va
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