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I'm so use to setting aside 2 days and cooking like crazy and this year I have nothing to do! My 16 yr old daughter begged to cook Thanksgiving dinner all by herself so I bowed out and now have no clue what to do with myself.

I finished up canning the rest of of the beets yesterday and it took me most of the day so yesterday was ok. ...

We were promised a bright sunny day today after weeks of gloom and rain. Started out so foggy you couldn't see your hand in front of your face and finally around 10:30 the sun broke through. We all cheered! Girl's had to dash off to work and I got into my chore boots and headed out to take care of livestock. The girl's hadn't gotten the chicken ...

I canned beets today. Plain beets in the pressure canner and pickled beets in the water bath canner so was able to do both batches at the same time and be done today. I suppose I should do all of one thing until it's done but I get sick of it that way. Something different each day livens it up. Did apples all the way through so they wouldn't go ...

Sitting here watching the pressure cooker gage. Got sweet Potatoes getting canned today or at least a couple of batches. Takes a whole 1 1/2 hours at 10 lbs pressure to process them though. Read a couple chapters in my book on the first batch and now I'm surfing the web. Rest of my beets and cabbages came in today so will be doing beets tomorrow. ...

Got lots of canning that needs to be done but got someone coming to replace my range today so decided I better not be in the kitchen canning when he comes! Everyone has gone off to work and the kitchen is cleaned up. Trying to think the best way to use my unexpected free day and decided I probably should go climb into my warm bed and curl up with ...