Happy dance! Happy dance!
Yes! My beloved Flock browser is fixed. I can't tell you what an awesome browser this is.
Look, I can drag and drop pictures once again, quick as a flash!
Drying more peppers.
Three gallons of blackberries in one day from our Doyle Thornless.
Figs, just beginning to form.
Fennel, with bulbs below.
And, IF I were so inclined, I could put pictures into several social networking places at the same time. But I'm not that social. LOL
Anyhow, thanks to the generosity of dear friends, we have moved up from 512 MB to 2 GB of RAM, and thanks to the job we did this week, we have on order a 1 TB external hard drive. So my computer will be happier, and my browser is patched.
I do like the borders and watermarks on the photos, I think I'll pursue that.
It's a good day. :)
~Faith
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Yay!!!! Funny you are working with peppers right now...I have been think about doing something with them myself...I love me my peppers!
ReplyDeleteI have a dehydrator, of sorts. Still in the box from a garage sale. Not sure how to even use one...guess I better check it out! What will you do with all those dried peppers?
ReplyDeleteCongrats! You'll be much happier with the memory. We upgraded our machines recently as well. Big improvement. Your dill looks perfect and so many cucumbers! Your pickles are going to be amazing.
ReplyDeleteGreat pics Faith! Are the cucumbers a combination of yours and your folks garden or is that all from yours? We haven't gotten any yet, but we're hoping in another week or so. We've been toying with the idea of a dehydrator, it's on our wish list.
ReplyDeleteR Dean
SBF,
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying my Anaheim's the most. I love to eat them on sandwiches, hamburgers, etc. I want to can some, but I don't want to use the pressure canner unless it's full.
I need to learn to combine several different, smaller, batches of various garden pickings.
I think what I've got in there is half garden bell peppers and half frozen bell peppers from the grocery store. I'm trying to empty out my freezer.
~Faith
Cyn,
ReplyDeleteFunny, a friend of mine just said the same thing! She has one but needs to learn how to use it.
It's so easy.
For long term storage, you want your produce to lose about 85% to 90% of its moisture. The way you know when that has happened, is you drop them on the counter. If it clicks, it's dry enough. Easy!
For shorter term, just get them down to chewy stage of how you like it. Most stuff will keep for months like that anyhow.
Store them in air tight containers, or as close to air tight as you can.
~Faith
Jo,
ReplyDeleteI had been thinking the pc would run faster, load pages quicker, etc. But I found that what it does is just not lock up all the time when more than one thing is happening.
So I'm happy with that!
Actually, that dill-looking stuff is fennel. What I don't have down is harvesting the herbs. I'm not sure what to do with all that fennel. One problem is that I've been so busy on the farm that actually having any time for creative cooking has escaped me. Maybe one day I can cook again. :)
~Faith
Cyn,
ReplyDeleteI forgot to answer your question...
I will probably use the peppers for soups. I'm looking forward to lots of soups this winter. Just toss in all sorts of dried veggies into the crock pot and enjoy that night.
~Faith
Dean,
ReplyDeleteThe cucumbers are all from here. Michael really wanted a lot, plus we had planned on doing Farmer's Market so we planted a double row of 15 feet.
I have been throwing most of them into the compost pile. We just have too many.
I do like my Excalibur. I wish it were quieter, but that's something you just have to deal with if you want one that works well.
~Faith
OH GOOD! YEAH! I use a dehydrator also. And my look at those cucmbers!
ReplyDeleteLinda
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Faith, do you have to do something special to store dehydrated veggies/fruits? I know the dehydrated food that I buy for backpacking is in special packaging and perhaps may have something done to it to preserve it. Also, loved the copperhead picture you posted a while back. I've only seen one in the wild while hiking in the Smokies years ago. There use to be a zoo in Maggie Valley, N.C. called the Soco Zoo that had a bunch of copper heads, they are truly beautiful snakes, although "somewhat" dangerous to handle. I wouldn't pick one up! R Dean
ReplyDeleteLinda,
ReplyDeleteI'm BURIED in them!
~Faith
Dean,
ReplyDeleteIf I had the money, I would store them in air-tight jars with oxygen eating packets.
But I don't. So they are stored in zip lock bags. They should be just fine for a year or so.
You can treat them with all sorts of things, but I don't like using other stuff like sulfurs and such.
I really like the black snakes with the yellow bellies, can't think of what they are right now. We see them all the time. I had to pull one out of the doghouse a few weeks ago as the dog would not go in. Neither one of us liked it very much, but he had to go. LOL
~Faith