welcome to Saturday's video today you find me outside and working on
some chores because they say there's a storm headed our way now living on the
East Coast that could be anything from something to
nothing and it seems like the weather men never get it right sometimes we've
had storms where it dumped 28 inches of snow on the ground
high winds other times they call for snow and we don't really get anything
but we always have to be prepared and we are to get high winds which means we
could have the electricity off so I'm working today
Owen winterizing that you can house a little bit more because we're supposed
to have minus digit temperatures so I'm putting more bedding in the chicken
house and I will put a heat lamp if I need to so I hope you enjoy this video
I'm gonna share with you some of the things I've done this week I've done a
lot of canning but a lot of these videos I previously done so what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to share with you what I'm working on this week if you find a video
of me canning always look for the tag above me that tag above me it's going to
direct you to a video where there's step-by-step instructions on how to can
there's certain things that I've done this week there's no use in me going
into a full detailed video when I already have one so just make sure you
realize that if I have something on a DIY or a V log or vlog you will see that
same video above here in a full-length description of how you can can that as
well so let's get started on the day because the weekend is gonna go really
fast and Saturday night tonight and tomorrow is when the storm is supposed
to arrive and then Monday sub-zero temperatures what fun but you know what
it's the end of January and this is the time of the year when weather like this
can happen really quick the homestead I don't have garbage disposal I burned all
of my own trash and recycle it so we want to make sure the letters on we
don't want to get any snow inside of it because it's gonna make things rust out
make sure I got all of the branches I got
them way before the snow hit because once the snow hits its gonna be buried
so I get all of my wood and I stack it together we want to make sure the
chickens are nice and warm that's top priority preparing for a storm like a
snow storm it's no different than preparing for any storm of your life we
know it's going to happen we don't know when but we really want to take care of
things why wait until the storm of life happens why wait when you have a warning
don't you want to heat it that's what I'm doing today getting all my sticks
together I have them all ready if I need them and I have all of my lamps with oil
in them my chickens have their extra bedding all of these things I'm doing to
prepare for the upcoming storm but what about the upcoming storm in life
shouldn't we be prepared for those things as well hmm something to think
about as we approach the winter storm of 2019 now the storm may never hit us but
at least were prepared for the next storm that comes in her life that's how
I look upon it I look upon it as an adventure as a journey with excitement
not with fear life's a dance you learn as you go you go ahead and show you what
I did the rest of the week the projects that you didn't see the highest viewed
videos was a video just like today and it was how I can my carrots hi everybody
and welcome to another vlog and I'm gonna share with you what I'm working on
today I'm cleaning up my frigerators and I'm using up everything that I have and
I had a whole bunch of carrots and one of my videos I made and then over a year
ago was canning carrots using Lipton onion soup mix and Wow
that hit the internet by storm people like Linda's pantry and other people who
can't love the recipe and I'm gonna share with you just a real quick way how
I make it all that you have to do is cut up and peel your carrots and put them in
a quart glass jar and then you're going to take
one tablespoon of Lipton onion soup mix and each of the jars fill it with water
and can it for 30 minutes in a pressure canner it's that simple
Katz is one of the easiest things to can and the pressure canner and so if you're
a beginner this is a great way to can some carrots of course you can use your
homemade Lipton onion soup mix which I would do is in the next year's but I
still had some of this and so we're gonna use it up and it's just so simple
a tablespoon and each jar roughly give or take doesn't really matter you can't
you can't overdo it fresh onions work really well too
and that's it I've kids hundreds of quarts of carrots this way and they're
so good I'm just gonna go ahead and put some
water in here this is my filtered water that I use with the murky water filter
there we go now all we have to do is put them in the
pressure canner for 30 minutes at 10 pounds pressure and that is for my
altitude I just show you that by cleaning out my freezer I was able to
get some vegetables to make vegetable stew because that is something that we
really like to eat here it's vegetable soup and I'm actually almost out of it
you
30 pints and all I put half of them away in my pantry and I just wanted to share
with you that you always take the Rings off you want to make sure you take the
Rings off your jars somebody will leave them on some people take them off but I
always strongly suggest that you take them off also you want to clean your
jars you want to clean the rims and you want to clean all around them fur and
get all of the food bits and pieces of food that may have left that dawn it's
very important if you do see some mold that's growing on the outside of your
jars that is fine as long as your jars are sealed every once in a while you may
see a little bit of mold that is forming on the outside of your jars maybe you
didn't clean them right or maybe something you didn't wash it the way you
should have that's fine it's not gonna hurt anything as long as your jars your
sealed also when you open up your jars you want to make sure that you wipe the
tops off before you pop the lid off because where you're storing your food
it's going to get dusty and so it's always a good habit even the food that
you buy in the grocery store to put the top of it off before you open up the lid
that way you're not putting any kind of dust or anything in your food when
you're opening it up so this was the vegetable soup out of the freezer all of
those veggies out of the freezer and it turned out beautiful so one pint is one
big bowl of soup so two pints each we feed for our two people and I love
canning things in pints because it is only my husband and I but when I had a
growing family I did a lot of canning in quarts you want to make sure you wash
your raised in hot soapy water because the Rings you reuse I don't recommend
reusing the lids you can use them from dry storage or
something like that but I don't recommend you reuse the lids especially
for you pressure canning if you want to be use your lids for things like pickles
I think that would be okay but I would never be use lids or pressure canning
because it's a lot of hard work and you could have botulism if your food is not
sealed correctly also I explained this before botulism can be killed if you
boil your contents for 10 minutes or longer now you can still get food
poisoning but you cannot get the deadly botulism if you boiled your food for 10
minutes or longer but like my mama always said when in doubt you always
throw it out
what I'm cleaning my jars off with is some organic cleaner I made with lemon
essential oil basically it's vinegar and essential oil and there we go we have
them all done I'm gonna label the date and I can put it on my pantry shelf
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