Episode 94: Christmas, Emotional Problem-Solving, and Preparing for Winter

Today we talk about preparing for winter, Christmas gift ideas, decision making with emotions, green chilipalooza and more!

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Tomato canning
• Drying red runners
• Green chili weekend is this weekend: Salsa, canning chilies, roasting chilies, eating chilies

What Mother Nature is providing

• A word on the fall garden
• Okra okra okra
• Jerusalem Artichokes are blooming -
• Lotsa tomatoes
• A final mullein, mint, lemon balm and comfrey sweep
• Jewelweed

Stump the Sauce

• Coffee in soup

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

• Using all the tomato water when canning

Operation Independence

• Put up 26.5 quarts of tomatoes - $2 a quart including propane and lids (but not my time).
• Fridge win for the duplex

Christmas is coming - gift ideas

1. 1. Custom bitters
   2. Coffee air freshener
   3. Jams and jellies
   4. Rustic Walking stick
   5. Elderberry Syrup kit: dried elderberries, cinnamon, ginger, cayenne pepper, honey 

The newly adopted family that visited and an update on Airbnb

Making decisions by emotion

Fall on the homestead = prepare for winter

Song: Feed My Hunger by Sauce

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Resources

• Membership Sign Up
• Amish Coffee Soup
• 2016 Christmas Gift Ideas
• 2017 Christmas Gift Ideas
• 5 ways to prepare hatch chilies