Pumpkin butter, we're doing pumpkin chips. There's so much you can do with pumpkin. Pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pancakes, my gosh, the list goes on and on. But pumpkin butter I think is my favorite because you can make that up and put it on the shelf. And I'll tell you what, it's like taking pumpkin pie filling and spreading across your toast in the morning. And it's so good. If you like pumpkin pie, folks, you will love pumpkin butter. And you can find it easily online. One of my favorite sites to go to for recipes is tasteofhome.com. Again, that's tasteofhome.com. You can generally find the Taste of Home magazines. And I say magazines because they have Oh gosh, probably four or five, at least four or five different magazines that they put out. One for quick cooking, one for just cooking for two. Oh goodness. Then they have their regular magazines that they put out. They have one that comes out every two months. Of course they have their specialty cookbook. You can get slow cooking as well. That's another one that they do. But you can find all this online for free. That's a fun thing. I know I have a couple other cookbooks and for a while I did have a subscription because I enjoy them that much. It's one of those things that I will pick up an Uncle Covered Cupboard. And there's not many magazines I'll do that with. The other one is Backwoods Home. If you can get a copy of Backwoods Home, it's a great magazine. Not only do they have recipes in there, but they have inexpensive, take the junk and maybe get into something, you know? low-cost, innovative ideas, being more self-sufficient in your home, whether you be in the city or out in the country, more for country living than city, but how to get off the grid, how to do it, how to make your purchases, you don't want to purchase land and have a place to get out of the city or a place to go to, inexpensively and to be totally off the grid, how to do that. everything from building your own wind generators, solar stoves, into even building, build shelter out of, which is, yeah, what? Yes. They do a little bit of everything there. One thing that just popped in my head is they're hot tubs made from an inflatable swimming pool and a coffee pot. I know it sounds weird, but this is some of the stuff that they have in there. very different innovative ideas that, supplying to the group ridiculous if you will, very very tough and some of the not really, you did this, but you know it's still an idea that you know, that's not a bad idea, especially if you have arthritis, get in there and soak a bit. Something that the doctors will tell you to do actually with arthritis is get in a warm shower, hot tub in the morning, loose in those joints up before you start your day, you'll feel so much better. But that's something that was in there. It was something out of the blue, but that's weird. They have so many different innovative ideas. And you can actually go online to backwardshome.com and get the annual compilation article in one book. It's a great way to go in there and get everything covered. And it's one of those things that I read cover to cover because there's so much information there. Not only on things like that, but also on firearms. I have their Second Amendment, First Amendment, Minded, which makes it great reading as well. Articles on animal husbandry, home schooling, on just starting a business at home. What you can do with your computer out in out in BFP, which is what they've done there with their magazine. I mean, they started off, being off the grid in Idaho, starting their home business and doing what's home, finding contributors to articles. Back when I was doing merchandising and putting up magazines, I was carrying it, I said, what did you do? This is the one magazine I bought, oh my gosh. So I had to go to the after that in order to get it. because they quit carrying it in the area and it was just one of those magazines that used to be Mother Earth News was along that line. How to do things naturally, how to do improvise. Well, Mother Earth News, now if you go in there, you know, you've got your contracted wind generator people and pumps and all that. Not how to do it yourself. be self-sufficient but rather have somebody come in and do it for you. And that's where they have a fast track. Oh my goodness, I went right past the top of the hour folks. I didn't even realize it. If we're now at 8-11, but that's fine, we can keep going. Again, I just, you know, hopefully I'm not losing an advertisement for a break there. Pre-shirt guy or whomever we have, a sponsor will not be too terrible at this. But we'll go in here with that. Back with films, again, this is a good source of information for anybody that wants to be self-sufficient. And the whole tone of the magazine is very much patriot-minded and you're going to enjoy cover to cover. I know you will. I know you're going to like it. So if you can't go there, check it out online. They may have a few articles up there. The author, the editor. But again, we're along the same lines, pretty much that we are in the Second Amendment, good memory rights, self-sufficient, totally self-sufficient. So, you know, how to get there, how do you build it? You're not going to do it all at once unless you've got a lot of money in hand, and most folks don't. If you're like us, bit by bit, get the pieces up and keep going. A little bit of our inventory here with the tornado that we had on our panels. will be replaced. It will take time to get back to where we want something we can do all at once. As we go forward, we will do that. We'll get those things back online and that helps. Every little bit helps, as you know. Every penny counts. And that's where we have to listen to our father's founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin, a penny saved is a penny earned. So saving those pennies and putting them together and putting them to good use so that you can reduce those bills further is just that much further in advance. Talking of finances where at the end of the year and of course at the beginning of the year we start thinking about CIRS time of year which is never any fun. And as we take care of things bit by bit, knocking things away, saving, saving where you can and extending where you know you need to. Again, a penny saved is a penny earned. A decision time saves nine. That whole idea of preventative maintenance. Beyond time to make sure your house is in order for winter. The insulation of windows and making sure your gutters are cleaned out and ready for the first snow. Everything is in, and your home will make it through those winter months. beyond that time. If you don't have those things done, you need to get out there. Use your course of cocking them and making sure everything is squared away for winter. And it is that time folks. If you do not have it done, get it done. These are important things to have done for your family. It will save you money down the line to make sure that your home is prepped and ready for the winter. It will save you on heat, electricity, And hopefully, you know, you're not going to be running into roofing repairs down the line if you don't have these things squared away. Premium to get these things done. You know, we were talking about preparing your garden. Your garden is the same thing. If you have those fruit vegetables in, as I told you, oh gosh, it's been about a month or so ago, get them in the ground. It's getting late. If you are probably Kentucky down, you probably can still So a few carrots, you get them in the ground to help break it up for so that next spring you will have broke up and will take blood. I know I've been helping folks up here with the organic gardening. People I worked with, some of them had recently retired and they were thinking, they were saying, I've got time to garden now. It's like, OK, cool. Here we go. Because they are vegetarians, I've been helping with that. They are growing their own stuff preservative free. you know, organic gardening, and they live in the city, so the compact, things that grow in the compact areas, rattlesnake beans, I think probably because they are ever-experien seen. And I've got, you know, people turn up, so those, ours have grown quite well. And until, I think we're still, we still have a few green leaves out there, it's still trying to produce quite cold. Where it's actually just through a sheet of plastic over everything. because this thing is up on a trellis mark made. It's more like a Dean Arbor because these things grow so high. I can't get to them. They will grow a good 16 feet tall in the pole beam, but they are ever bearing and they will continue and continue. The more you pick, the more it makes. As in a 50-foot row, you'll get a bushel and then in the second round, you'll get twice as much time. It will double in production. So as it starts getting cool, then it'll start dropping off. The other wonderful thing about that is it is a heritage seed and instead of having to purchase more seed, at the end you take those seeds that are fully developed inside the pod and you've got seeds for next year and you're not having to extend more money on seed. They work very well. They always produce beautifully. It's just keeping the ground to the woodchuck. help me from them because they are such a tasty thing. They should have had a problem with one goat that kept getting out and eating all the leaves. But it continued to come back and do just beautifully. He wanted the leaves. He didn't even have left the beans alone, which was kind of weird. But it's a great thing to have. Again, something that's kind of produced a lot, get a lot of production from a small state. And if you have that issue, then it's something that is very easy to do. You can do raised bed gardening. Sheet layering, compost is a great way to do a garden with minimal effort. So we're talking really minimal effort because you're growing in your compost basically. You can just go out, put a sheet of cardboard down and start building your compost on top of that. Your vegetables then for that raised bed. It's a really nice way to do it. A whole amount of weeding. because of all the compost and mulch that you're putting on there, things will grow very well in it and be very nice. Now is the time. If you put all the leaves that are down, take it out and make sure you get those in your compost. Or if you have a garden that you've already tilled over for the end of the year, layer it with the leaves and then get a sheet of books of leaves down in the spring, you are going to have lovely blacker. It won't be leaves at all. Really nice compost. for the garden. Save all your coffee grounds, your tea grounds, get them out there, put them on it, mix it in, and in the spring your ground is going to be ready and get that in. During the summer to help keep things down you may want to take a trench between the rows in your garden and put your compost in there. By putting your compost in there and of course draw you from whatever you have down in between the rows it gives you area to walk on, moist, and let that sit directly from that compost. We do things, and again, this is something you can find in most books on sheet composting and doing the row composting so that you're directly into the roof right away. All good things, all good ideas. Getting that done. Goodness, we're almost to the bottom of the second hour here, folks. But it's 8.20, they're about 8 morning. Think of the emerald egg. Just a few more tools for your toolbox folks. Things going... Oh my goodness. Those are things to think about and things to do to prepare. It is still canning season, so there's plenty to do. There's still plenty out there that's available. If you've got your root cellar in, there's your onions and potatoes and carrots in. We talked about using sand for your potatoes and carrots to help make them last. store your onions away from your potatoes. One of the things I've learned is that you put them side by side and the onions, they will actually, they emit a gas and they will make each other rot so it's that much faster. So keep them in separate corners in your root cellars so they're not exchanging gases and helping the decomposition go. I used to have a little half barrel in my kitchen. I had a wood divider and did not realize that. Now let me tell you, they went bad so fast. Oh my goodness. Just using a regular three pound bag of onions on one side and a ten pound bag of potatoes on the other. You would not believe how much faster they decomposed and that little thing. I think I would use it for one or the other now at this point. Potatoes, just so I can grab them, a cabinet in the kitchen, and I'll keep that on the back porch where it's cooler so it's handy, handy use. Nice little storage thing. But that is something you can do to keep, I mean, we'll get here, oh, probably 100 pounds of potatoes we put in the root cellar, and that'll last us through till February, which is plenty of time to get things done. This morning has been a little different for me. Getting on with the dehydrating again, this is stuff that you can do so much that you have. If you have the excess of anything, you can dry it. And again, dry it and like it. There's a book you can probably, I would think you would be able to find that on Amazon. I can't look that up right now, so I still don't have the internet back. Again, we have that problem with storms here. Even if it's a mild storm, it gets a little wet and... for whatever reason, keeping that in mind, a dry it you like it that has a lot of information there on drying everything in your garden. Anything you might want to process as meat as well into jerky, even to making a salt cod. If you have access to fresh cod, if you happen to be on the east coast, or west coast, where you can get fresh fish. to take it and dry it. So I think we've got a couple of local people. We live in a very interesting area. And our rhythm will tell you, there's a socialist capital here in Michigan. However, it is also a melting pot of the United States. You wouldn't believe it internationally. I think I've talked about this in the past. One of the local universities has used a training spot of students, all international to come in and learn conversational English before they go to the universities of their choice here in the US. So we get to see all kinds of food stuff and ethnic foods that come into the area for these people. Everything from Asian to people from the Middle East, of course Western Europe, Russia, you name it, they're here. The people are interesting. If you like to watch people and the different cold clearisms from around the world and things that they do and things that they like, the way they do things, you see all of that here. For me, I love watching people because for me at the great past time and where I work in the public all the time, you get to see some really interesting, if you will, pick out, you know, different things from people in different cultures and the way some are very polite or others are rather rude and abrupt. And it has a lot to do with their upbringing and their culture. To see that all come to play and work together is sometimes amusing to be honest. I'm going to head to the different instances because it's But it's a joy to see all the variants, the differences that we have in our backgrounds. Because it's, I believe, to each their own, whatever makes you happy. And for some, that's such a mindset of, well, this makes me happy, so I have to make everybody else happy. And that drives me crazy, so you must be crazy. You get that kind of appeal sometimes with people. There's right, there's wrong, and then there's, you know, the stuff that, okay, whatever. You keep looking what? It makes them happy. It's that freedom of choice thing. It's something that they've grown up with, and they're not sure in their culture there's some reason for doing things a certain way, but to look at it and get them to explain, okay, why are you doing it that way? I'm just curious. And we'll tell you, and say, oh, okay. When you think about it, you know, there are a lot of their way of looking at things that might actually make a little sense. It's like, whatever. That's kind of where I'm at. For the most part, it's too much for me. I don't care. As long as it doesn't infringe on me and my rights, and you know, it might not be my cup of tea. On the other hand, we like to, those that like to cook, they like to experiment a little bit. Try a little different flavor. So if there's something that's... Some places I don't really want to go and food experimentation. It's just a whole sushi thing. Raw fish is yuck. And yes, I could say yuck. I know my daughter loves sushi, but eeeh. Raw fish is not a place I'm willing to go because, sorry, like anything else, they have their own issues, parasites and whatnot that grow and I'm not willing to go there. I don't need any of that. Thank you very much. That's kind of a silly thing. I am going to go out and give out our call in number again at 888-747-1968. Again, if you'd like to call in with any questions or any comments of your choice, I'm willing to talk about just about anything. 888-747-1968 is that call in 9th here on the micro effect this morning. I am Nancy Kornke, I'm filling in for Mark. Here's his Friday, November 1st. Don't forget, let's see, next Tuesday we've got a vote coming up here. Don't forget to get out there and vote next Tuesday, of course. On November 1st, yesterday being the 31st, Halloween. You've got lots of pumpkins to pick up folks. Go out and make a deal with those farmers on their pumpkins and get some put up. Pumpkin's a good thing. And if you can it up, you can go back and use it in a number of different ways, whether it be in pies, Pies, muffins, bread, oh my goodness, the ways to use pumpkin is endless, really. It's a good thing you can try it and make some really good pumpkin chips. Some of you out there have tried those bags of apple chips. This is as good, if not better, than those. Those are heavily sweetened juice. You can do the same thing in your home dehydrator. And if you don't have a home dehydrator, you can do it in your oven. It's going to cost you more running your oven on the lowest setting to dry your pumpkin. Set it up on a cookie sheet on the cookie drying rack. Put them across there if you've got better airflow around it so it dries quicker. But you can do that in your oven as well. Herbs, if you have herbs to dry, that can actually be done in the microwave in just a few seconds. But putting it in between layers of paper towels, parsley, oregano, any of your herbs. If you want to dry them to have use, you can also, of course, if you want to, just take them and cut them off at the base of the plant and hang them upside down. That is the traditional way of doing that. And just hang them up in the kitchen. I believe I'm hearing Bob and the Hour Break music. 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And we just had a nice, nice, beautiful summer. Not overly hot, plenty of rain, growing season. We just had We just got the last of our beans, thrown off with regular beans, regular green beans, and this is a great one to have. But produce is one down here, folks, that's going to come to a dead stop. We have had frost. If there's even a little bit of green left on them, they just keep going and going and going. I love those beans, rattlesnake beans. If you can check it out. Heritage is non-hypertise. A lot of production and something to think about doing. And then of course you have perennials too. We have volunteers who talked about that plant. Last year it got almost awesome one plant and produced. So I think we got one we had in there this year, a couple of them. But the one that produced, perhaps dried a few, four quart jars. And you can get roughly eight quarts in a one quart jar, over-rise them. After you dry them, put them through powder. your coffee scoop and take that dead flavor very quickly. Old farmhouse like I do, closets back then. You had a walk-in closet here. So anything that's dried has got to be up here. High water table too. So, you know, it's in our neighbors. They'll build a basement and put it on a slab because years ago when they put it up, Torian's been to Pintny. The dorm, it weathered the tornado beautiful. There's other homes that were, or the trees are gone. Your old trees. from the property. We lucked out. One was injured during that and I think everybody that was out there that helped. I got that shot up down here for a good month. We didn't have phones for a month after that. Our electricity back up within two days. A cable, I heard somebody at the door, seeing everybody for help after the storm and getting right away. The people that came out and helped us get the trees out of the way and I think I have been able to really thank everybody for their help. Back on our feet and squared away. boy got married and making a recovery nicely in a nursing home. Recovery is a miracle. 92 to have as much for work for those prayers and for... but we have been... let everybody know that and your help, prayers so much. As well as a student's new family. I'd appreciate so much for all the say-do there. They'll fit in and help run the board which is always fun on this end. It's that time in his life in which he's the goes well for him and his travel. So grateful for our family and for our family. I'm going to hand out this get out this number again the call in number is for 7 1968. A little bit of little bit of this, a little bit of that. Healthcare of course and things that you can yourself and your family both medically. Production we're right still in the height of the season of that round folks. Don't hesitate to pick it up. Right bananas make so many wonderful. Banana butter is a little I'm so little sweet for my taste personally. But if you kids like them, peanut butter and banana butter are a PDBB, if you will. But very good that way. I like to take a mixed coconut. And believe it or not, we've taken that and used that for ice cream topping. I call it banana. Pretty much all the other fruit flavors that are there. Pineapple, banana butter, rest it. A little bit of when you add nuts to your fruits and work very nicely. And it's something I just adapted something to try out. You've got a batch that uses berries or whatever. If you've got a little bit of this and a little bit of that, this is going to that produce markdown rack. As long as they're not growing hair that's just really ripe and getting mushy, perfect for doing your jams and jellies. The ones that are here in typical, most place quality store will go through the culls, what they call the culls, and pull out the berries that are good. So it's the ones that they're getting close to that and put it in salad. They've only got a couple of days. into a salad and put it out there for people to buy for one. But when you're getting really ripe like that, you mix all that stuff together and make a really, really nice chow, jap. And some of that I will raisin cookies and nuts to my fruitcake during the year. Others I will blueberries and just rinse them. Just rinse them, put them in a bag, throw them in the freezer. And you can draw on that later to either make pies, throw them in your You're up pancake batter, your pancakes, make some little nice fur or whatever you want to do there. Jams and jellies. If you have a little bit left over on your strawberries, you can always take those out later and add into your jam mix as you're going throughout the year to make those mixed berry jams with berry pie. And I see, of course, in the spring you use strawberries. I'm going to rhubarb with my strum, so I have to put them together on a fried strawberry rhubarb jambal. But these are things that you can go through your supermarket and pick up a little, put them together, and a nice accompaniment to you can use it as cream cheese, as it's very well with your mango chutney. A little bit of a burn, but not too much. Poblanos would work well with that. Fire roasted poblanos, chicken, if you like to. And I try to get away from the breading on those too, to go with that. Honey is a good, and again, we get a lot of that in this area, again, that melting pot of different things. I don't like it perhaps this way, but I can take it and I don't. These are things that you can do in your grocery store. And on that discount, you want to use it right away. Morning, just want to dry. If you have, like we do, of hydrating and using, you can actually put together soup mixes with the vegetables in your garden. When you're drying potatoes, boil them first so they don't turn brown. Everything you would like in your soup, dry it up, put it in a jar, and two with the meat. After you dry it, I would denigrate it, and the sorbing can pack it. There are a number of places online, or if you have an elder, there should be one locally. But then find at least one in your state, keeping that in mind. So one of the things that would be good, they have gone to using, washing them up. They're really dry. Your grain and dried stuff, oxygen, very very inexpensively and put it away. You should be able to use that too in the wider mouth jars for where the top of the hour and into the third hour of the intelligence report on September 1st. 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