Radical homemakers. You either want to be one, or hate their guts and think they’re just out to make you look bad.
And though I am not, nor have I ever been, upper-middle class (Heck, we just recently hit middle class. Woo-hoo! No more poverty line!) I guess I could be lumped in with the women who decided that having it all meant a vegetable garden and a sewing machine. Sure, we get kicked around by those who think we’re enslaving ourselves, but that’s OK. I know stuck behind a desk for 8+ hours a day would be the real torture for me. So there.
Wednesday I cooked a big batch of raspberries, canned them, and waited. Thursday we cracked open one jar for a taste, and nearly ate half the thing on toast in one go. Very yummy, and surprisingly not as sweet as I feared they’d be considering how much sugar the recipe called for.
Since that was so successful, and easy, I decided to give spaghetti sauce a try. A little more work, and a lot longer cooking time. But not too bad really. And I got all of these out of it.
So there you go. I’m now growing vegetables, and canning them. And I liked it!
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abbie
on Jul 23rd, 2010
@ 8:17 AM:
Yay!
Joan
on Jul 23rd, 2010
@ 12:54 PM:
I am not an RH, but strive to live vicariously through the blogs of women who are living it. When my girls were little I was closer to radical than I am now. I’m still one of those evil liberals, shun organized church, distrust government, and believe in peak oil and climate change.
Your jam looks yummy. =)
Amber
@ AmberStrocel
on Jul 23rd, 2010
@ 1:07 PM:
Canning is awesome.
I am totally willing to enslave myself if (1) it’s of my own free choice, (2) I get to live a better, more sustainable lifestyle and (3) I get awesome homemade jam out of it. Somehow, it doesn’t feel like enslavement at all. Like you said, the real enslavement would be 40+ hours a week in a depressing cubicle if you don’t feel you have a choice about that.
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on Jul 25th, 2010
@ 1:53 AM:
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