From the Desk of John Rourke – – – > July 8th, 2024

Recently a couple of sisters were sickened with botulism from home canned “nopales”.  If you are not familiar nopales are part of a type of cactus. This story is being shared around the innerwebs and is really making home canning look dangerous and risky. While there is certainly advantages to automatic systems of canning used to produce popular soups and vegetable found on grocery store shelves, the number of people sickened from home canning is incredibly small. Even in the article it is mentioned that a disease specialist for the county where the sickness took place had not seen such an even in 26 years.

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Folks – follow instructions to sterilize jars, lids, etc. Get information on the particular canning recipe from good sources. If you are getting into canning make sure you have the latest canning book from Ball. A wealth of information. Home canning is incredibly safe.

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The garden continues to produce!!

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Over the long 4th of July weekend, a major project I undertook was insulating and organizing our garage. The garage is separate from our house and rests approx. 40 yards away. When we purchased the home we found many surprises we were unaware of. Hey – live and learn, right? One of the big ones was the garage had no power run to it. We had limited time with the property before we had to jump on it and it was covered in snow at the time.

Well – I failed to insulate the entire garage. Embarrassment prevents me from revealing how much I completed but it was a learning experience for sure. I’m still in the process of organizing and it’s going to be a huge improvement. I added some large steel industrial shelves which really work well for heavy items such as ammo cans.

Just added a CB base station I picked up at a yard sale and will install the antenna soon and then perform some testing.

Once done I’ll post a few pictures.

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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If you are unaware we have a survival & preparedness store here on this website. We carry a variety of unique and budget-friendly items and everything ships for free in the USA.

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Bringing this up in case we have some new visitors as well as mentioning to check back often as several new products will be added soon. I’ll let everyone know when they drop.

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Have a good week everyone!!

Rourke

 

 

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