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Jimi

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July 31st Born on this Day in History of Music
Ahmet Ertegun (1923), Kenny Burrell (1931), Bonnie Brown - The Browns (1938), Lobo (1943), Gary Lewis - Gary Lewis and the Playboys (1946), Karl Green - Herman's Hermits (1947), Russell Morris (1948), Leaveil Degree - The Whispers (1948), Carlo Karges - Nena (1951), Hugh McDowell - ELO (1953), Daniel Ash - Bauhaus (1957), Bill Berry - R.E.M. (1958), Stanley Jordan (1959), Malcolm Ross - Aztec Camera (1960), Norman Cook 'Fat Boy Slim' (1963), Denise Johnson - Primal Scream (1963), Jim Corr - The Corrs (1964), C. C. Catch (1964), Robert 'Fuzz' Townsend - Pop Will Eat Itself (1964), John 5 - Marilyn Manson (1971), Jerry Rivera (1973), Will Champion - Coldplay (1978), Zac Brown (1978), Suzie Del Vecchio (1982), Alissa White-Gluz - Arch Enemy (1985)
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1965 Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs at No.1 in Australia with ‘I Told the Brook / Funny Face’
1968 Tommy James and The Shondells at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mony Mony'
1971 James Taylor at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'You Got A Friend'
1976 George Benson at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Breezin'
1985 The Eurythmics at on the UK singles chart with 'There Must Be An Angel'
1985 Paul Young at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Every Time You Go Away'.
1991 Bryan Adams still at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You'
1999 Christina Aguilera at No.1 on the US chart with 'Genie In A Bottle'
2010 Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘We No Speak Americano’
2021 BTS at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Butter'
Gig News
1955 Elvis Presley performed at Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida
1965 The Who appeared at the Wilton Hall, Bletchley, England
1966 The Doors appeared at The Fifth Estate, Phoenix, Arizona
1969 Elvis Presley performed at the Las Vegas International Hotel
1979 AC/DC appeared at The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Indiana
1980 The Eagles played their final concert (in their first era) at Long Beach, California. The concert is infamously known as the "Long Night at Wrong Beach" due to the intense on-stage conflict between Glenn Frey and Don Felder.
Music News
1964 Jim Reeves, aged 40 was killed in a plane crash when the single engine aircraft flying from Arkansas to Nashville crashed in thick fog
 

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Wow beautiful- I saw some gothic styles i love too , but alas I will live with my grown up bedroom, lol

I know what you mean. I'm redecorating my bedroom now, regretting some choices I've made in the past. I had a canopy bed as a teen, and when I moved out to pursue my adult life I thought it was juvenile, so I sold it. Now I wish I had it because they make Faraday fabric now. I can just see it all draped over the top canopy frame and down the sides.

But I'm not buying a bed for this impulse, or getting rid of the wicker headboard I carried home, on foot, from a garage sale, while cars were honking at me and people giving me thumbs-up.

I guess what I really need is a second bedroom, haha.
 

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Thank you I hate to see any go to waste but...
It does happen with pressure cookers but the maters anymore don't carry the acids they used too, at least not the ones I grew but they taste so good, so to be safe they new cannin books call for pressure, I still water bath some.

Jimi, you wrote yesterday:

"It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."

I almost made this a pm rather than run my mouth in this public thread, but I'd be interested in having Goph's input too, since he cans his produce.

It makes me sick that you lost two quarts of the good organic tomatoes you worked so hard to grow, and two of your canning jars you spent good money on. When I search online, I read it happens to people all the time in pressure cooker canning.

Lots of government recommendations are scammy, designed to make us fail, and sometimes there are lobbying efforts behind them. Those things go into "updated" books, and we're on the road to despair.

Yes, our produce has lost nutrients due to degraded soil, but I assume you're composting your kitchen waste into the soil.

The USDA recommendations for home canning is now an empty "401" page.

This is from FDA (what business is it of theirs?):


But at the bottom line, all of the naturally occurring acids in tomatoes can be replaced as additives, if you really feel it's necessary. Here is a good article about it:


You can buy food grade citric, ascorbic and malic acid. Probably just a little goes a long way.

Then you can go back to the failsafe methods that have stood you and our ancestors in good stead for decades, if not hundreds of years.

Luv ya
BD
 

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Jimi, you wrote yesterday:

"It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."

I almost made this a pm rather than run my mouth in this public thread, but I'd be interested in having Goph's input too, since he cans his produce.

It makes me sick that you lost two quarts of the good organic tomatoes you worked so hard to grow, and two of your canning jars you spent good money on. When I search online, I read it happens to people all the time in pressure cooker canning.

Lots of government recommendations are scammy, designed to make us fail, and sometimes there are lobbying efforts behind them. Those things go into "updated" books, and we're on the road to despair.

Yes, our produce has lost nutrients due to degraded soil, but I assume you're composting your kitchen waste into the soil.

The USDA recommendations for home canning is now an empty "401" page.

This is from FDA (what business is it of theirs?):


But at the bottom line, all of the naturally occurring acids in tomatoes can be replaced as additives, if you really feel it's necessary. Here is a good article about it:


You can buy food grade citric, ascorbic and malic acid. Probably just a little goes a long way.

Then you can go back to the failsafe methods that have stood you and our ancestors in good stead for decades, if not hundreds of years.

Luv ya
BD
If the acidity is below 4.5 on the pH scale then they should be able to be water bath canned. Ideal would be in the threes. This pH tester is about $50 on Amazon and is highly rated. I'd send the link but it might have my info.

APERA INSTRUMENTS AI209 Value Series PH20 Waterproof pH Tester Kit, ±0.1 pH Accuracy​

 

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