December 30, 2012

last Sunday of 2012.....enjoyed Church today...

take a listen to Pastor Bob's message.... www.h-hcc.org

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got home and went right to cleaning the chicken coop....

because a wheelbarrow will not work in a foot of snow,

we go to plan B in the winter......a tarp.....and drag it

across the snow...

Ross bringing me some new straw....

spreading it out in the coop.....



a couple of the chickens flew out of the coop and

then freaked out when they landed in a foot of snow....

then Brother Tim arrived and we started watching some

football......had some football snacks.....and then more

football.....I started taking down the Christmas decorations

in between games....this will take a couple days!!!

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As we come to the end of 2012 and finish the

Living off the Land blog, I will do some yearly

totals and recaps......tonight it is ....

Canning

 

we started this year with 849 canned jars of food....this

consisted of 45 different types of items...and was from the

2010 and 2011 season.

 

we did our first canning on July 20, 2012

and our last on November 8, 2012....

this was a long canning season...but we were

thrilled at how everything continued to produce.

 

this year we canned 588 jars total...with 35 different

types of items. This number is in our normal range...

this year though, we did not get any fruit...so no jellies, jams,

pies or applesauce was made....and that is normally another

75-100 jars .....we are hopeful for our fruit trees in 2013.

 

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the BLOG status page gives all kinds of cool info.....

here are the most visited dates of the blog so far....in order....

 

In the beginning....December 11, 2011(the first post)

April 21

December18

November 26

 

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the other cool stat is how many visitors have come to the BLOG....

as of tonight it is 12,275....  

 

The top 3 countries (in order) that have visited the BLOG 

 

United States 11,354

Russia    469

Germany  387

 

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I have had a BLAST doing this each day.....

 

Pleasant Dreams!!!