May21 Project: Day 25

May21 Project: Day 25 – Tuesday June 14, 2011. (Posted June 26)

An interesting happened today. I ended up taking the day off from work. As you know the power has been on and off, and apparently while we were driving back from being stranded in Vegas, the power had been off most of the time. Well one of our neighbors, Jeff, my son Danny is friends with his kids, had a big deep freezer filled with a whole side of beef, and some other stuff. Well it started to melt, and he was panicking that it would all go bad…

So we had a big barbeque, and meat canning party. I now have about 40 quart and 30 pint jars of canned meat. Between the families in our court, we canned about 200 bottles. The rest we dried and smoked.

I’m glad we know and are friends with all our neighbors; it may be important in the future.