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BREAKING: 12 kiIIed in plane crash near Butler, Missouri
The plane was reportedly carrying 11 skydivers and one pilot
This is absolutely horrific.
Praying for their families 🙏
This is one of the BIGGEST SCAMS, and no one talks about it. You buy a truck, but you're not allowed to fix it because "You could get hurt?" So instead, they force you to bring it in so they can "fix" it, which is 10 times more expensive than if you did it yourself. @Ford
Back when I was a kid, this is what I remember.
Summer didn’t just mean swimming holes, lightning bugs, and running barefoot till your feet got tougher than shoe leather. Summer meant the garden was coming in, and when the garden came in, everybody had work to do. Nobody asked if you felt like helping. Feelings were not invited to canning day, which was probably for the best since they’d just get in the way and sweat on the tomatoes.
The garden wasn’t there for decoration. It fed us. What we grew in the summer had to help carry us through the winter.
I remember baskets of green beans waiting to be snapped. Tomatoes sitting in piles, red and ripe, ready to be peeled and canned. Corn shucked on the porch with silks sticking to your arms. Cucumbers turned into pickles. Apples and peaches put up sweet. Every bit of it mattered.
And let me tell you, there weren’t many excuses that got you out of garden work or canning day. A headache didn’t do it. Being tired sure didn’t do it. A bad attitude mostly just got you handed another pan of beans.
But there was one thing folks believed back then. If a young girl was on her monthly time, she was usually kept away from the garden work and the canning. Old folks said she could make the food spoil, or keep the jars from sealing right. Now, whether that was truth, superstition, or just one of those old-timey beliefs passed down till nobody questioned it, I can’t say. Humans do love making rules and then handing them down like Moses brought them off the mountain. But I do remember it being taken serious.
The women didn’t always say much about it plain. They’d just know. A girl might be told to rest, stay out of the heat, or do something else away from the food. Back then, some things weren’t talked about out loud, but everybody understood what was meant.
The kitchen would get hotter than common sense. Big pots boiled on the stove, jars clinked together, and everybody moved around like they knew exactly what needed doing. Somebody was washing jars. Somebody was filling them. Somebody was wiping rims and tightening lids. And then came that sound every family listened for: the little **pop** of a jar sealing.
That pop meant winter food.
It meant green beans for supper when snow was on the ground. It meant tomatoes for soup, gravy, or poured over fried potatoes. It meant pickles beside beans and cornbread. It meant apple butter on biscuits on a cold morning.
By the end of summer, the shelves would be lined with jars, green, red, yellow, and brown, all shining like little promises. To some folks it may have looked like canned food. To us, it looked like security.
We didn’t call it “homesteading” or “preserving seasonal produce,” because apparently everything needs a fancy name now so folks can charge money for it. We just called it putting up food.
And that’s what I remember most.
A hot kitchen. Tired hands. A porch full of vegetables. Old beliefs nobody dared test. Family working together. Winter being made ready, one jar at a time.
And somewhere in all that work, without us even knowing it, we were making memories too.
The kind that stick with you longer than the jars on the shelf. The kind that come back when you smell tomatoes cooking or hear a jar lid pop. The kind that remind you where you came from, who loved you, and how much was done with plain hands and a willing heart.
Those were good memories.
And they’ve helped carry me through a lifetime.
~banjo~
@JamesHu27192912 No joke , real story. I went into early labor and had to be in the hospital for a week or so and my grandmother brought the field peas up to the hospital and two pans 😆.. I was blessed
The first auto brand to make a pickup with ZERO TECH will sell out so fast it'll make their head spin. No brain, no GPS...just engine, transmission, rear end, and get the hell outta my way:)
🚨 Oregon Democrats are actually trying to BAN hunting and fishing.
If this insane proposal passes, it would criminalize killing animals for food, hunting, fishing, or even research.
These clowns want to turn Oregon into some vegan utopia where you can’t feed your family the way humans have for centuries.
After letting cities turn into homeless camps and crime zones, now they’re coming for rural Americans way of life.
This is peak out-of-touch leftist nonsense.
Genuinely curious, because I’m not a meteorologist, but every year of my adult life, the local weather has said “Alabama is in a drought.” What’s the baseline we are basing that off of? If every year is a drought, isn’t that just normal? Or did we get a lot of rain in like 1910, and every thing else has been less? 🤷♂️
Thank you that has made me feel Better . The weight gain ugh . Even when exercising and eating what I always had . An the night sweats even during the day . I started HRT husband and family agree it’s great ! lol. It has seemed to help though. I was say about 60-70 percent better . God Bless
BREAKING: Massive fire erupts from a medical supply warehouse that can be seen for miles in Tracy, California.
The fire is at the Medline warehouse, one of the largest medical supply distributors, which ships products to hospitals and healthcare facilities across the country.
Multiple agencies and firefighters are working to get the blazing building under control, as investigators try to find the cause of the fire.
@FarmerCrafted My children love these when we found them on our dirt road walks or river days I would make them a pair . A little girl and little boy .
.@POTUS: "We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran, and we're going to be subject to finalization of documents, which should get done over the next few days. We'll probably have a signing, maybe in Europe — and it's a great thing."