A wonderful box arrived from out west from my momma, in it was a very cute huge warm go to town cream/grey an black fall jacket, and then came the books/magazines..

the copy of the cool Canning magazine she told me about that I could not find out here, can’t wait to try some of those recipes, a old book that was my step-dad’s mom’s, its from the 1920’s an its full of info and hand drawings, I will do a book review on it in the fuure..

I love Grit but there was a new one called Pioneer and it was a very interesting one, lots of info and some really good DIY projects, I liked the one on how to make a game carts to haul out your deer or elk across rough country, because not everyone can afford a quad to do the job.. The hunting and trapping area’s of the magazine were very well done and the four pages on how to deal with frost bite was excellent!

But the book that is bringing me back to it again and again and I can’t wait to try some of the things in it, like making watermelon sugar syrup to replace molasse in recipes is The kitchen Gardeners Companion, A-Z encyclopedia for using the food that you grow by Pat Katz, I need to try some of the idea’s in it and some of the recipes before I am going to give it a rating but man, its got some old and funky but amazing idea’s in it! Like how to make your own cream of tarter when you make homemade wine and big write up on how to make all different kinds of vinagers among many others..