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Wow, you really do burn the candle at both ends! I can’t do that anymore. I will be 74 in 3 months and have A-fib and other health problems that leave me tired a lot. I just came off two days of feeling well and getting some stuff done. Today I am making bone broth and will be canning it. I started canning when I was 21, we had bought 8 acres and raised hay, a few meat animals and lot of chickens and rabbits, as well as had a couple of horses and dairy goats. We now live on just a 3/4 acre lot in the city limits of a small town, and not even allowed a couple of chickens. I quit canning about 8 years ago, but then found out about digital canners last year and decided to start canning again with the smaller batch digitals. It’s just hubby and I and a small dog now.

I used to feed my previous dogs a raw diet, bones and all. With other dogs I used to cook, I pressure cooked chickens for 2 hours and the bones were mush and could be smashed between your fingers, they got that in their diet as a source of calcium. I never thought to put my chicken stock bones in the garden! Although that would likely draw vermin and predators, we are in heavy coyote territory and we had trouble with skins and coons last summer from bird seed that fell on the ground!

I can meats, have done bacon in the past and sausages. Now I mainly do chicken, beef, pork, and turkey, as well as our garden produce. Our garden did excellent last summer and we were giving away so many zucchini and cucumbers away! Our neighbors are thrilled to get it. I dehydrated a lot of zucchini and made plenty of pickles. I write on my meat jars whether or not I added any salt or seasoning because I figure I have some w/o that stuff for the dog. Have a ton of rice and black-eyed peas set aside for the dog also.

Here are pics of our Poodles that are no longer with us. The silver girl was almost 16 and died of a tumor in her heart. The black boy died at age four of a rare blood disorder in dogs.

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