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JMF Deposit and More Garden Rambling

July 24th, 2015 at 06:52 am

$2952.13 Starting Balance
+__10.00 Weekly Deposit
+__91.50 Coin Jar and Egg Money
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$3053.63 New Balance

Less than $1000 to go. Feels good to finally hit the $3000 mark. $946.37 to come up with before the end of the year.

Things are going well in the food preserving department. I am canning green beans and dehydrating many herbs daily. I have several prepared for making teas, some in oil infusions, and some just dried and ready for making medicines.

The tomatoes are filling up with green fruit. I am anxious to see it turn red or yellow. The peppers are putting on good fruit as well. I hope when it is all ripe we will be able to provide all our tomato needs for the year, between diced, sauces, and salsas.

Even more zucchini is coming on, as are cucumbers, and summer squash. In another day or two I will have enough cucumbers to make a batch of bread and butter pickles for DH. I don't care for them, but I have enough dills on the shelves to make a few jars of what he likes for him.

I don't think I'm going to can corn again this year. I think I will cut it off the cob and either freeze or dehydrate it. Maybe both. Neither of the kids seem to like the home canned corn. It's okay, but not as good as TJ's canned corn. I may end up just feeding it to the birds.

I am looking forward to when the winter squash start to bloom as well. I love watching how fast they grow. Actually the watermelon has been growing at that rate. I can't believe we will actually have watermelon this year.

I still want to purchase a side of beef this fall. Just don't know how practical that will be. We'll see in a couple of months.

3 Responses to “JMF Deposit and More Garden Rambling”

  1. scottish girl Says:
    1437718119

    You're doing great!

  2. VS_ozgirl Says:
    1437724365

    Great work with the January money fund! You have inspired me to allocate some money from the EF at the end of the year to Christmas money fund - this will be two weeks spending money that my husband usually would earn but because he's self-employed and his work closes down for a couple of weeks over Christmas, he won't be earning. Usually we just end up struggling so hopefully by doing this it should be a bit less stressful for us.

  3. LuckyRobin Says:
    1437775450

    VS--It makes a huge difference not having to struggle or dip into the Emergency Fund at the end/beginning of the year. It is so worth it.

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