Simple Everyday Living

I have been canning salmon for many years. Canning salmon is a great way to free up freezer space. Just be sure to thaw your salmon before canning. Canned salmon has so many uses: salmon loaf, sa...

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Made my first batch of pickled salmon yesterday. I had a King salmon fillet in the freezer from 2015 and since it was from the Columbia River in Washington, I knew it was heading up to spawn, so ...

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You know times are tough, because times have been good before. You know things are going really well because times have been a struggle before. What a long 12 months we have had. Bright spots (...

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I am very aware of how much I spend at the grocery store, and what I end up with at home to put in the fridge or on the shelves. $100 used to fill the shopping cart and my fridge and shelves as w...

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This blog is about simple living. No more keeping up with the Jones' or sports until you drop. It's our adventure in self reliance. Faith, home cooking, home canning and preservation, gardening, and animal husbandry.

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It was a great loss to lose Ernie, and we mourned over him. But we knew we wanted to get another puppy. We searched and were able to find a local litter that was due in October. On Dec. 5th we we...

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In September we had a tragic accident. Our beloved 11 month old Golden retriever, Ernie, was backed over by a semi. He was able to drag himself with his front legs out from under the front tire. ...

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I have discovered great tasting, healthy, long term freeze dried food and I didn't break the bank. I started a new blog with some information about Thrive foods. If you're interested, have a look...

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School is just around the corner and every August I create delicious meals for my family to have in the freezer. I first came upon this idea from my Women's Day Cookbook. Over the years our famil...

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Last month I tried my hand at a method of preserving lemons used in France. Basically, the lemons are in a salt brine. The jar of lemons looks beautiful and the liquid has taken on a yellow hue, ...

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I stumbled across a book while browsing Amazon.com and came across this book about preserving without canning or freezing. The book is Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning, by Chelsea Gree...

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Meet Ernie, our newest household member of the golden retriever variety. Cooper is being a good sport and playing tug of war with him. I don't remember puppies having to pee every 1/2 ho...

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It's cherry pickin' time in the Pacific Northwest and my DD has access to a cherry orchard and picked 2 very full grocery bags of bing cherries for me.  They are so fresh you can see tha...

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I have been able to get local low temperature pasteurized, non-homogenized whole milk and decided to try my hand at making cheese. I ordered a simple cheese making kit and on Monday, I made Farmh...

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I know I have been away for eons, but that does not mean that I have not been visiting friends blogs. I have been passive just because I have been so busy with life, and I have not taken the time...

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I just got my first seed catalog in the mail yesterday. Yep, it's that time to start planning your garden. I want to try some new veggies and some new management practices. If anyone knows of any...

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As I stated in my previous post yesterday, New Recipe Ideas , I tried a recipe for spaghetti squash. Mind you, I don't care for squash in particular. I've always found that squash 'taste" to be t...

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Now that I am on Christmas break, I have had the opportunity to search for some new recipes. I find that I often get in a rut, fixing the same thing over and over again. Here are some new ideas f...

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Yes, it's true! Here is Cooper and Wesson battling it out for dibs on that last drumstick. They love to play and it is hard to believe but when they play like this th...

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Well, it turns out we didn't puppysit this weekend after all. DD19 is planning her trip tentatively for next weekend. But she did bring her blue heeler pup out on Wednesday for a play date with ...

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DD19 called this evening. She is going out of town and wants to know if we can watch her 3 1/2 month old puppy over the weekend. A Blue Heeler. Named Wesson (Smith's cousin). With lots of energy....

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School is in full swing and I have been busy this fall maintaining the garden and getting into the fall routine. Our chickens have discovered the joy of digging up and eating potatoes. We are goi...

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I haven't posted in three weeks, and I noticed I have lost a follower. I am assuming because I haven't been blogging. Honestly, I am so overrun with news, doom and gloom, daily chores, a major fo...

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I saw this today at  shtfplan. I have seen it before over the years and it is a good reminder of how our tax system works. I don't know if the author is known. Suppose that every day, ten men...

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