Well, it's that time again. We had rain all last week and the green beans jumped. Ended up picking 4 bushels off of 4 rows Saturday.

Dropped them off at my Grandmother's and her and her sister got to work stringing them. At 79 and 80 years old they are still getting after it. They worked until almost midnight Saturday night stringing beans

Last night we started canning them and got 33 quarts done. Probably have about that many more to do still.

We are limping along two pressure cookers that are from the 50's or 60's. My grandmother will never throw anything away, and now I have to use C clamps to get this one cooker to seal. I am proud to say that for the first time in 60 years this family has purchased a new pressure cooker, and it will be here Tuesday it was an act of Congress to convince her ours are worn out, but she finally saw the light yesterday

We will probably get her to 100 quarts and then give the rest away

Unless you bought a new All American, that old C clamped canner will probably be better than it.

That is good for her. When I was growing up I used to pick muscadines to sell in my grandmothers beauty shop. Those old women haggling over how full the bags were taught me a lot about business!!

What’s a good pressure cooker to purchase ? And thanks

When I was about 10 I read Where the Red Fern Grows and had to have me a redbone. I started hunting odd jobs and saving every cent but come spring I'd only saved about $30 and needed $150... odd jobs were hard to find when you lived over 5 miles from the nearest town.

So I asked my grandpa could I use his rototiller. And I tilled up the field behind our house. And I planted it in pumpkins. All summer I hoed those pumpkins and hauled 5gal buckets of water to them. In the fall, I had pumpkins! We lived on a fairly busy county road and I wheelbarrowed them all out to the front yard and put up a big painted sign on plywood, and a coffee can for money.

I'd like to say I made $120 but I didn't, lol. I don't remember the exact number but it was more than $60 and less than $80. But it brought me a huge way towards getting my pup, and by the next summer I'd saved up enough to buy him.

Yes, her and her sisters did around 300 quarts of vegetable soup last year. Most of it to sell for the women's ministry at church

Soup and green beans are the main two, but she also does pickles, pears, beets, and squash relish

Her vegetable soup is one of my favorite things in the world. It gets gone quick

They are working on sweet potato casseroles this weekend

I need to start making some soups. That's one thing I've never made much of other than tomato soup which I make from garden ripe tomatoes and is sooo good. Think maybe I'll make some beef/vegetable soup this winter.