Canning Caution: don't make marmalade barefoot

 

I bought a starter canning kit recently (super cheap at $12 from Ball) and I've been trying it out on the weekends. This weekend I tried making marmalade for the first time. I followed the orange-lemon marmalade recipe from the Ball Blue Book Guide. But I also looked at posts from various other blogs like this to see what extra tips I could find. So now that I've given it a go, I thought I'd chime in with my own bit of advice for making marmalade:  wear sneakers, and orthotics if you got 'em. Let me explain...

Chickens: The Final Frontier

Just bought a coop and painted it. We won't be getting chickens for a couple months still. Wanted to give myself plenty of time to get everything set up. Incidentally, this is the sloppiest paint job I've ever done. I had to repaint my mistakes repeatedly. I hope the chickens like VOCs because it'll probably take ten years for all the paint to dry.

In case you were wondering...

This is what two cubic yards of decomposed granite looks like: