Gardening can be seductive...a lot of work but really seductive. Before I knew it, I was in for the ride of my life. It started simply, a way to take control over some of the food that enters my body. We studied how to do this, asked advice from any friend who'd ever turned a shovel of dirt, attended the Jackson County NC Cooperative Extension seminars and googled and youtubed the subject like crazy.
It worked! Now, we have food stuff all over the place. We can hardly find a square inch of counter space that isn't occupied by tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers or beans, beans, beans. Along with learning how to grow things, we've also been trying to learn how to preserve what we've grown.
During the last two weekends, I've managed to figure out how to turn cucumbers into pickles so the hot water bath canning no longer mystifies me. Today, in just a little while, I am going to take on pressure canning homemade spaghetti sauce. Nervous? Well...yeah!
The first time I reviewed an Offer to Purchase and Contract with someone, I was just as nervous but I did it. The way I look at it, there are way more words and paragraphs in a contract than there are in the instructions to pressure can the spaghetti sauce!
Look at the tomatoes in this photo (BTW, not the tomatoes in today's sauce). These little green beauties look so very innocent but they are temptresses. All I can think about now is how to grow more next year and prepare to organically do battle with those pests vying with me for the fruits. Yep, I've surely been seduced by the gardening fairy.
Anyway, I figured if I can read a contract then I can can ... I think I can, I think I can, I think I can therefore I can.
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