Hello!
GrizzlyetteAdams referred me. <3 Thank you, Grizzlyette!
I am retired, my husband is recently retired, and we live on a tributary to the Chesapeake Bay, deep in a rural area. (Hardiness zone 7b.)
We garden, I can (pressure and water bath) dehydrate, and freeze to preserve food.
We just recently developed raised bed gardens on this property, on the tail end of the project in which we purchased a larger propane tank (propane is on sale) and had it buried. We had a huge mound of dirt in the yard, sooo...
We also still maintain a large container garden.
Right now, in the raised beds and containers, we have:
Three Sisters planting of Silver Queen corn, yellow straight neck squash, string beans bush, string beans pole
Cantaloupe
Lima beans
Cucumbers
Lettuces, a mixed variety
Carrots, a mixed variety
Spinach, I forget which variety (that is finishing up, obvs.)
Beets, mostly Detroit red but I think at least one other variety
Peppers, sweet bells including mixed color bells and Purple Beauty bells
Hot yellow Hungarian wax peppers
Jalapenos
Tomatoes, Beefsteak, Roma, Big Boy and Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes
Sweet potatoes, we just planted Georgia Jet slips and we have Beauregard slips on deck for when the cool weather veggies vacate the beds and containers
Snow peas, peas, sugar snap peas in containers that are finishing up
This year's garden was grown completely from seed, by us. I'm particularly happy to have some confidence in this area now.
We crab, we do not yet fish so much (most of our native fish are small and bony unless one goes out into the Bay and/or goes out during rock fish season.)
We do not yet hunt but Husband shoots trap (and he's darned good at it.) (Me, not so much. You've heard the saying, "If it flies, it dies?" Well, with me, if it flies, it flies. It just keeps right on flying...)
I shoot pistol with a ladies' group and on my own (and of course, with Husband.) (I'm ok enough at that.) (As long as it's not flying.)
We tinker with back up solar power (small portable system) and maintain a back up generator ourselves. In the winter we heat primarily with a Blaze King Princess CAT stove, which we also maintain (chimney cleaning, stove pipe cleaning, CAT vacuuming) ourselves. Truth in advertising: we are lucky to be able to purchase our wood felled, cut and split at a reasonable price. Our provider delivers and dumps- we stack to season and eventually haul to the house. There's a bit of effort on our part but most of the hard work is bought and paid for- again, we are fortunate. (IN THE SUMMER I RUN THE AIR CONDITIONER. 'NUFF SAID.) (GOD BLESS MR. CARRIER.)
I knit, sometimes I crochet (although I am a bit fickle about both.) Years ago I sewed prolifically but not so much now- it's cheaper for me to buy clothes than to make them, and bolt fabric ain't what it used to be. =(
We've also brewed and fermented and bottle conditioned our own beer, and I've made homemade fruit wines. We aren't fermenting anything at the moment; we sold our 5 gallon kits because it was just too much beer and wine. We are considering investigating smaller batch kits.
During quarantine we purchased a Weber kettle grill, an S&S offset insert with a water receptacle, a Cave Tools wood chip box and wood chips, a new fangled 1 million probe thermometer with a remote read out so we aren't opening the grill until necessary, AND A DRIP PAN OMG WHY DIDN'T WE BUY THAT WITH THE GRILL? WE LEARNED OUR LESSON SOON ENOUGH! And then we learned to SMOKE OUR OWN PORK BUTTS TO MAKE PULLED PORK BBQ. WE ARE HOOKED. WE HAVE CREATED OUR OWN MONSTERS OUT OF OURSELVES. Our first attempt was with 2 HUGE pork butts, about 14 lbs. each. We surprised ourselves with beginner's luck. Beautiful mahogany bark, moist tender meat inside, AND IT PULLED! It came off the grill/smoker at 5:30 am after the second overnight. Sunrise found us EATING PULLED PORK WITH OUR BARE HANDS, BY THE HANDFULS, OMG. There's two briskets in the fridge right now waiting to go into the kettle grill/smoker.
Next up: I want to learn how to make sushi at home. We have access to crab meat, so why not?
So that's us...
Hello, Grizzlyette, thank you again for inviting us! <3
Hello, Everyone!
GrizzlyetteAdams referred me. <3 Thank you, Grizzlyette!
I am retired, my husband is recently retired, and we live on a tributary to the Chesapeake Bay, deep in a rural area. (Hardiness zone 7b.)
We garden, I can (pressure and water bath) dehydrate, and freeze to preserve food.
We just recently developed raised bed gardens on this property, on the tail end of the project in which we purchased a larger propane tank (propane is on sale) and had it buried. We had a huge mound of dirt in the yard, sooo...
We also still maintain a large container garden.
Right now, in the raised beds and containers, we have:
Three Sisters planting of Silver Queen corn, yellow straight neck squash, string beans bush, string beans pole
Cantaloupe
Lima beans
Cucumbers
Lettuces, a mixed variety
Carrots, a mixed variety
Spinach, I forget which variety (that is finishing up, obvs.)
Beets, mostly Detroit red but I think at least one other variety
Peppers, sweet bells including mixed color bells and Purple Beauty bells
Hot yellow Hungarian wax peppers
Jalapenos
Tomatoes, Beefsteak, Roma, Big Boy and Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes
Sweet potatoes, we just planted Georgia Jet slips and we have Beauregard slips on deck for when the cool weather veggies vacate the beds and containers
Snow peas, peas, sugar snap peas in containers that are finishing up
This year's garden was grown completely from seed, by us. I'm particularly happy to have some confidence in this area now.
We crab, we do not yet fish so much (most of our native fish are small and bony unless one goes out into the Bay and/or goes out during rock fish season.)
We do not yet hunt but Husband shoots trap (and he's darned good at it.) (Me, not so much. You've heard the saying, "If it flies, it dies?" Well, with me, if it flies, it flies. It just keeps right on flying...)
I shoot pistol with a ladies' group and on my own (and of course, with Husband.) (I'm ok enough at that.) (As long as it's not flying.)
We tinker with back up solar power (small portable system) and maintain a back up generator ourselves. In the winter we heat primarily with a Blaze King Princess CAT stove, which we also maintain (chimney cleaning, stove pipe cleaning, CAT vacuuming) ourselves. Truth in advertising: we are lucky to be able to purchase our wood felled, cut and split at a reasonable price. Our provider delivers and dumps- we stack to season and eventually haul to the house. There's a bit of effort on our part but most of the hard work is bought and paid for- again, we are fortunate.
(IN THE SUMMER I RUN THE AIR CONDITIONER. 'NUFF SAID.) (GOD BLESS MR. CARRIER.)I knit, sometimes I crochet (although I am a bit fickle about both.) Years ago I sewed prolifically but not so much now- it's cheaper for me to buy clothes than to make them, and bolt fabric ain't what it used to be. =(
We've also brewed and fermented and bottle conditioned our own beer, and I've made homemade fruit wines. We aren't fermenting anything at the moment; we sold our 5 gallon kits because it was just too much beer and wine. We are considering investigating smaller batch kits.
During quarantine we purchased a Weber kettle grill, an S&S offset insert with a water receptacle, a Cave Tools wood chip box and wood chips, a new fangled 1 million probe thermometer with a remote read out so we aren't opening the grill until necessary, AND A DRIP PAN OMG WHY DIDN'T WE BUY THAT WITH THE GRILL? WE LEARNED OUR LESSON SOON ENOUGH! And then we learned to SMOKE OUR OWN PORK BUTTS TO MAKE PULLED PORK BBQ. WE ARE HOOKED. WE HAVE CREATED OUR OWN MONSTERS OUT OF OURSELVES. Our first attempt was with 2 HUGE pork butts, about 14 lbs. each. We surprised ourselves with beginner's luck. Beautiful mahogany bark, moist tender meat inside, AND IT PULLED! It came off the grill/smoker at 5:30 am after the second overnight. Sunrise found us EATING PULLED PORK WITH OUR BARE HANDS, BY THE HANDFULS, OMG.
There's two briskets in the fridge right now waiting to go into the kettle grill/smoker. Next up: I want to learn how to make sushi at home. We have access to crab meat, so why not?
So that's us...
Hello, Grizzlyette, thank you again for inviting us! <3
Hello, Everyone!
:lil guy:
Soul, we'er in Florida where our gardening season is ending so now just getting ready for fall planting and soil conditioning.
