Today was a great day! I know that the clock says it is around two in the morning on Monday, but I am talking about Sunday, technically. We had a great day around here. It started off with the weather being nice enough to get some of the lawn mowed… (Never mind that the mower soon after snapped a belt and is now down for maintenance…) The grass was green, the breeze was warm, and I spent a good chunk of the afternoon splitting wood. If I’m not careful that last sentence could come off as oxymoronic… What happened was we had cut and hauled enough wood up to the house from the wooded area out back that we had an oversupply for this mild winter, and we are now back-logged in the splitting portion of the task.
While I was splitting wood out back, I also had some baked beans cooking in the oven. I noticed the other day that we were running low on store bought (cough-complete shit-cough) baked beans, and I decided right then and there that we would never buy something that we could easily make ourselves (for way cheaper) again. The recipe that I tried out today was straight from the blue ball canning book, and the reason we decided to go with that recipe is because that is what my grandma said she used for years (before commercial canned goods became the norm). The beans I made, and pressure canned, today turned out pretty good. A little simple for my taste, but I like things wild and spicy… with a little heat and maybe some whiskey… The point being, I now know for a fact I will never purchase store processed baked beans again; this wonderful adventure of a day was simply too awesome for that!
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