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canning, cloth diapers, cooking, nature, outdoors, Plants, pressure canner
I bought a pressure canner at a garage sale. Today I tested it out to make sure it worked and I can’t figure it out! We had a pressure canner before, but we had it rigged and lost the weight. (Good old-fashioned moonshine!) Anyways, The canner has this little back dot on the lid, beside were the weight goes. All my pressure was escaping that hole and the weight didn’t show anything. Whats going on? Does anybody know? I tried to look on the internet and couldn’t find anything. I’m thinking it might be broke, but whats the dot SUPPOSED to be for? While I try to figure out my canner though, I’m still enjoying my vegetable garden. All my green bean plants are doing great, but my tomatoes and peppers are a little over watered. Oops. This gardening thing is trickier than I thought but im learning so much! It is all a process. My husband and I talked in the car today on the way to get milk for the baby, about cow’s milk vs. goats milk. He went to school with a girl who became a vet and has her own hospital down the road from us. She has a field full of goats and i may have to stop and say hi. Maybe I can get some goats milk? I read on the frugal girl’s blog her post about unpasteurized milk today after my talk with Dan – perfect timing! I have reposted this a few minutes ago. I mentioned before i wanted to try cloth diapers. I finally found the plastic covers in Dom’s size today. Its going to take me some practice to get it done fast enough for Dom to be happy. I keep fiddling around with it thinking it’s not on perfect and it’s going to leak. To my suprise, it never leaked. He hasn’t pooped yet though. So far he has gone through four diapers. I just put him to bed but i used a regular diaper. He always wakes up soaked. I hope once these diapers we have are gone I will be used to it and can put them on at night. Somebody told me today about how they tried cloth diapers and it lasted only a week. It was very discouraging because it reminded me how hard its going to be. If they couldn’t do it, then how could I? I have tried to take it as a challenge though, I am determined! I have to try to turn negativity into something good! I have to let it inspire me to do what I set out to do. I have a mission and a vision. I have to do this.