Tony Ferguson Wk26

I am a little depressed today, as I have again gained 600 grams. I dont know why. The lady at Tony Ferguson seems to think I am not eating enough food so this week I will try and eat more.
doesnt make sense to me, but hay, will give it a go!
I have just come back from going into the city with baby girl. She had to go and get fingerprinted for her gaming licence. Boy have the trains become crowded. And we were stuck in the loop for 10 minutes as another train broke down. We left cranbourne station at 8.15am and got back at 12.00! We were only in the place for 10 minutes.
Boy what an adventure
Wont be doing that again for another couple of years I reckon.
see ya

The supercell

This is the satellite picture of victoria for today. More severe storms are on their way.
All this rain, comming down at once is causing major problems for everyone. Here we have been lucky with not much damage, but when the rain is the heaviest it floods the front yard. But luckily it runs away quickly and only one window has let some water in.
So all in all not a bad weekend.
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Just like Queensland

Its been very hot and muggy here for the last few days. And now I am inside listening to the thunder outside. It suddenly got very dark and gloomy.
Except for the the humidity, I love it.
I hope all this rain stops in queensland and we start to get some here. Although not quite that much.
Whatever the weather, werever you are have a great weekend.
see ya

Bread and butter cucumbers

cut up your cucumbers into thin slices and salt carefully.
leave overnight.
next morning wash and put aside to dry.
in a pan add
white vinegar
sugar
white pepper corn
and water.
I used 3cups vinegar
1 cup sugar and a handful of the pepper corn.
I then added 1.5 cups water and brought the lot to the boil.
I washed and put jars into hot water while I waited for the vinegar to come to a boil.
Pack the jars with the cucumber and add the vinegar mix.
seal and put in canner.

This time I also added onion to the cucumber to salt but only left them for an hour.
I hope these tast like you remember. Its been a few years since I made the last batch and the family Iove them.
They will be ready to eat in about a week or so.
If you can hold out that long.
see ya

Still cooking

Yummy cookies, with chocolate chips Bread and butter cucumbers

And my fowlers bottling unit. Bought 2nd hand and has been used lots!

Nearly the weekend.

See ya

Sauce!

two of these Turned into 12 of these

Just like magic!

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Tony Ferguson Wk25

Well this week I have gained 500 grams.
dont know why so all I can do is just get over it and move on.
Was very busy yesterday and split about a months worth of wood for the fire and pulled up the tomatoes from the raised garden bed. I now have lots of tomatoes to make the last of the pasta sauce for this year. home grown basil will go into this lot.
Off to do some bottling
see ya